Daunte Culpepper ungifts necklace from paralyzed teen ~ NanoThoughts 1.0

Thursday, February 03, 2005

Daunte Culpepper ungifts necklace from paralyzed teen

SI.com - NFL - Culpepper ungifts necklace from paralyzed teen - Wednesday February 2, 2005 8:24PM

First time I've seen "ungifts" used as a word. Man, I love the English language. This also reminds me of my haircut last week. I gave the woman a $13 tip when I meant to tip $4 (grabbed a $10 instead of a $1). Once I had realized what I'd done, I thought a few seconds about retrieving it, but she had already gone upstairs and I didn't care anymore. Plus, it would've been awkward getting it back. However, I did decide that if it had been a $20 instead of a $10, I definitely would've gotten it back and to relieve any latent cognitive dissonance I must say that it's a damn good haircut.

6 comments:

Jody said...

Three comments:
1) I also love the malleability of the English language. Gotta love those Germanic roots.
2) "ungifts" ranks up there with "regift" or "regifter"
3) Now we have data points for how much not feeling awkward is worth to Roger and how much not feeling awkward is worth to Daunte Culpepper... I'll file away those chestnut and some day they'll be a linchpin in my plan to take over the world....

Of course all my schemes fall apart. Perhaps because I'm a dumbass and use things like someone's monetary valuation of not feeling awkward as a linchpin in my plans.

Rog said...

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about the amount of money relative to our income and it's almost the same ratio. Heheheheheh. So, there may be some set ratio for which people actually give a shit. I guess Bill Gates would be on the order of $10 million or so.
Random link: The Ten Million Dollar Test (I got a 30. Jeez, do people think that $10 million is really that special?)

What's interesting is to compare the search engine results for ungifts and those for ungifts with culpepper excluded. Looks like this article is the lion's share of the links. Instead of ungifts maybe we should make it an eponym. "Hey man, did you see how that guy culpeppered the homeless dude?" or "Yo, I heard Roger culpeppered the lady at the salon!"

Google Search: ungiftsGoogle Search: ungifts -culpepperYahoo! Search Results for ungiftsYahoo! Search Results for ungifts -culpepper

Rog said...

I guess I should preview my comments.
Google Search: ungiftsGoogle Search: ungifts -culpepperYahoo! Search Results for ungiftsYahoo! Search Results for ungifts -culpepper

Rog said...

Ok, I previewed that one, but it lied. Here come the [br]s.

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Google Search: ungifts2
Google Search: ungifts -culpepper3
Yahoo! Search Results for ungifts4
Yahoo! Search Results for ungifts -culpepperThey don't allow [br] tags apparently and yet line breaks aren't carried over for comments like they are for regular posts. Lame. Yeah, maybe I should switch to haloscan at some point.

Anonymous said...

It's awesome how those links redirect you to the blogger redirect as well. With a little care, you could probably construct some kind of infinite redirection loop.

Rog said...

Ah yeah, hadn't noticed that. Yeah, in the 2nd comment, they only have one redirected, but then for the comments after that I guess I copied the redirected links and it then redirected those as well. Fantabulous!