Thursday, June 02, 2005

berserker-rage-inducing

present participle. Causing mild-mannered citizens to enter a state of extreme road rage, zoo rage, tax rage, Bible rage, golf rage, bunny rage, spatula rage, squirrel monkey rage, or salad bar rage.

Real citation:
Adjectives Rarely Used by Wine Tasters
Chunky
Super-charged
Pondy
Wine-a-licious
Alcoholy
Hallucinatory
Crippling
Caffeinated
Sludgy
Berserker-rage-inducing
(Adam Koford, "Adjectives Rarely Used by Wine Tasters," McSweeney's Internet Tendency, http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/1AdamKoford.html)

Made-up citation: “Your personal ad may garner more interest if you omit adjectives like ‘berserker-rage-inducing’ and ‘burnt-fleshy.’”

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