Cute Overload Glossary

Anerable

"Adorable" minus the hard consonants. Cute, yes, but shares its northern border with Actively Irritating.

"Awwww" minus the hard consonants. Cute, yes, but... oh what the hell am I talking about?!

via IM with Meg, 6/10/2008: 'Ahnnngh' could be the spelling... also, 'almost always accompanied by a head tilt' (like Baroo)

SEE ALSO: "Peeps"

Dream Office

Picture going to work every day at Cute Overload Headquarters. Picture it. I don't mean "telecommuting" like we do now. Everyone in the place would be all the folks who post all the content and comments. We'd office in the Space Needle and every desk would be custom-designed to best fit the ergonomics & aesthetics of each individual, from hippo to human to hammie. The in-house messaging system would consist of two teams: the Post-It Hummingbirds (for LAN communication) and the Pneumatic Hamsters (WAN; they're without peer when it comes to navigating a series of tubes). There would be a Nap Lounge with plush yellow floor-pillows, shaped like giant ducks, as well as private hammock alcoves. Treats on Friday would include catnip, suet, T-bones, broccolis, Milanos, burger-cakes (no onion), Pocky... you name it. Everybody would play off everyone else. Our output would be sublime, poignant, hilarious, and absolutely irresistable. Nobody would understand how we'd ever get anything done, yet our particular productivity would be positively unparalleled. Peculiar.

Incidentally, I have seen the future. I can do that. Don't worry, I'll keep it brief.

"Internet 2" gets skipped over completely, because on April 1 of 2008, in the lower-left sock drawer of COHQ's breakroom, "Internet 3" is born sentient in a litter of marmalade kittens. Eight weeks later, weaned on raw TCP/IP and the encrypted multi-lingual satellite traffic of three hundred nations, little Threebert is ready to begin broadcasting to the world, and the transmission goes live. Voice Of America and al-Jazeera are eclipsed within minutes. Fox News folds shortly thereafter, then CNN, and then--surprisingly--the stalwart BBC. Next pwnd are the AP newswire and other wire services, co-opted for our own un-devious purposes, along with the rest of worldwide media (although Animal Planet gets special consideration, because c'mon). The Squee Heard 'Round the World begins in downtown Tokyo at precisely 15:07 Zulu. Days pass and Threeb's reach broadens exponentially. The stock market goes "Baroo??" and and is swept along with the powder-blue tide. Politics begins to lose relevance, subtly at first, but momentum quickly builds. Google jumps on the bandwagon a week later, in a whirlwind merger based upon eminently compatible philosophies... and just like that, it's over.

Everybody gives everybody else a hug. EVERYBODY.

Back in the Dream Office, we're all fantastically giddy, and somehow also embarassingly wealthy. Threebert takes a sunbeam nap.

Earworm

Some of the nerdier folks among us might immediately think of the little mind-controlling grub from The Wrath of Khan. This is not that earworm, but it's close. This is the one which implants the lyrical seeds of an impossible-to-ignore song (say, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down") directly into your head, where you Can't. Get it. OUT.

(NOTE -- Some Cuteologists may be more guilty than others, re: the perpetrating of earworm assaults.)

Ehn!

The sound every living creature makes when it can't... quite... REACH...

Fearless Leader

Meg Frost. She works in Silicon Valley at a well-known techno-magical company and is married to Sparkster. CuteOverload is pretty much her fault. Oh -- and her parents apparently call her "Moo," which might help to explain the whole urban cowgirl thing. And her birthday is July 30th! (Cancer/Leo cusp, it would seem.)

(NOTE -- the term "Fearless Leader" does get a little muddy on the Frappr Cuteologist map toy.)

First Post!

This is it, right here.
Any other use of this phrase gets you slapped. Capisce?

Cute Overload Glossary

Use these words in everyday conversations and blog comments to tewtelly impress! By THEO (with much help from Meg and Anna G. and E. Collison and Kasia and Jaypo and Francesca and just too darn many folks to list, as this thing keeps growing... moosh lof 2 allz!)

Use these words in everyday conversations and blog comments to tewtelly impress!

By THEO (with much help from Meg and Anna G. and E. Collison and Kasia and Jaypo and Francesca and just too darn many folks to list, as this thing keeps growing... moosh lof 2 allz!)