Speechless Tuesday

Farewell to zeitheist. Come see me at Che Goulash.

Heistery, Handijackery, and Dusty Crackery

What's in a word? When I thunk up zeitheist, it was a fancy, a googaw, a verbal doodad. Little did I know that 9 years later it would proliferate to the point of saturating the interwebs.

It all started here in 2001, at a little site called LiveJournal. Remember those heady days, when there was no Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or Friendster? Heck, the whole blogosphere wasn't happening yet.

We've come a long way, baby.

Zeitheist now appears at Twitter, "to test your Twitter trend knowledge" -who doesn't need this? Priceless!

In my feeble mind, zeitheist always meant "stealing time." As it turns out, I was mistaken. According to an intrepid verbalist at addictionary.com, it has a far more dire (and amusing) connotation:

noun, The jerk that takes up a handicapped parking space without a tag and who is obviously not handicapped.

USAGE zeitheist means blatant disregard for the law in combination with thoughtless self-indulgence - both have become the spirit of the times.

SYNONYMS handijacker, lazy-parker, tresparker, infiltraturd, SPACE-INVADERS, Impajerk, heel on wheels, handifaker, Handi-jerk, handicrap

We have a connection to 9/11, to wit:

yes, zeitheist.... it's a heist of many hungry minds away from truth with the use of a dusty old cracker.

And... ZeitHeist The Motion Picture!



At this rate, world domination is but a few short years away. You read it here first!