Showing posts with label lighter side of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lighter side of life. Show all posts

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…