Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The Light'ER' side of life

Once, at the peak of my frustration after a particularly long and depressing spell of debugging, I realized that the ones doing the coding were the ones, who put the bugs in the codes in the first place, and considering my state of mind, I named them – Buggers.
It’s interesting to see how nouns from existing English dictionary could be twisted to define a non-existent/uninteresting noun or a verb into something funny and definitive. Below is a list I created with this in mind.

One who debugs computer codes – Debugger
One who puts bugs in computer codes – Bugger!
One who’s wet due to mist – Mister
One with an upset gut – Gutter.
One who throws a loaf of bread – Loafer?
One who chops meat – Meter.
One who does a butch haircut – Butcher??
One who’s a sum of all screw ups – Summer.
The one who punts a football – Punter.
One who operates on ‘cells’ – Cellar?
One with baby’s butt – butter.
A good cop – halocopter??
To correct a squint eye, use – eye liner.
Ones who makes men – Manners (manners maketh man? They must be a busy lot!)
One who makes the others corny – Corner!
One who always pays in cents – Center!!
An expert in drawing – Drawer.
A singer with pronunciation issues – Finger.
One who makes mats – Matter
One washed away by flowing water – Flower.
One who loves eating hams – Hammer.
One fireman who lights flames – Litter.
A seaman stuck up the ship’s mast – Master
One addicted to drugs/pills – Pillar
One bitten many times – Bitter
One who drowned in a pond – Ponder.
A “Sentence”; with “many” ‘punctuations’ – Puncture.
One who thinks he’s a wizard – Wander

Exercise for you: The one who_______ is -
‘Water’, ‘Powder’, ‘shoulder’, ‘Winter’, ‘dinner’, ‘clever’, ‘eager’, ’Father’, And paper?

Also the ones worth pondering upon:
Cancer, Danger, Dagger, Fever, Tiger…

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