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I'm sitting here helping Snarff make templates for BlogLegion and I'm reading through a whole ton of shit and I start to wonder... Who makes up all the neato names?

For instance, who was the first person to say the word "blog"? How long was it before other people started using it and how long did it take before everyone was saying it?

Same with bling-bling. When? Why? How long?

I remember a couple of years ago on a television show I was watching called The Panel, one of the hosts of the show, Santo Cilauro (don't bother clicking links, there are no pics but it made it all look important when I linked it up) (no. wait. I found a great snap of Santo and here are the lovely regulars from The Panel so now you can click) decided to make up a different meaning to a word and he wanted to see how long it would take before it caught on. The word was "valid" and he said that it would mean "good" or "excellent".

At the time, I thought he was full of shit and that it wouldn't take off, but a few months later an advertisement came on for McDonalds and two surfer dudes were eating the burgers and one of them said "valid". Cue look of wonder on Deb's face and even Santo was impressed that it had taken off. He organised for the clip to be shown as proof that he actually did it.

So here's the deal. I've used the word brazillionty a few times and I want to see if I can do what Santo did. I don't expect to see it in a commercial, but I wanted to know if I could get people to use it in their blogs. It means an unknown quantity, but probably a lot; and here is where the word was first mentioned and why I love the word so much.

I plan on using the word a brazillionty times.

Use it in your posts. Lets see how long it takes before everyone is using it.

Posted By: Lint | 10:25 PM | Lint

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