Great to hear from you! The ward seems about the same as always, but I’m probably the wrong person to ask about general trends, since I never seem to be on the grapevine or in the thick of things socially (!) Tell your wife hello. We miss you and hope you’re doing well in your new situation.

Eve,

I love the word. Does it also apply to the ever-present ‘that’s exactly what the _____wants you to think” (i.e. devil, “world”) — the ‘other’ against which we can’t help but define ourselves? It also sounds a bit like reification, but now I’m just throwing out words to try and make myself sound smart.

How’s the ward holding up, by the way? Have people grown back their testimonies since I’ve been away?

Cheers.

There’s no reason a word can’t have more than one meaning. And since the word “snoof” seems to fill a phonetic gap in English (as evidenced by similar words such as “snood” and “poof”), I’m not at all surprised that more than one person has come up with the word. However, unless the majority of the ZD / bloggernacle readership is familiar with the term in another context which would render this one confusing, I don’t see why it can’t be used here, with Kiskilili’s definition.

Jessawhy, yes, you’re entirely right. There are stupid people out there, and even more frightening, there are stupid people in here, and all of us are sometimes they. (We have met the enemy, and it is us, etc.) But I think Katya’s nailed it, and Lynnette has kindly illustrated it: the snoof problem, as I see it, is a problem of made-up, imaginary stupid people.

Thanks to Ethesis for the links to the urban dictionary (so much for originality!) and Tracy for the ear-bulb recommendation. I agree that snoof is just a fun word; I’ve loved it ever since Kiskilili invented it (or at least our particular twist on it). m&m has green blood? What other secrets are people keeping around here??

rowish, inevitably. But I like to keep my sacred cows real. There are so many real sacred cows I’m not really up to letting a herd of imaginary sacred cows stampede across a given discussion I might want to have.

doc, oh, I’ve fed a snoof or two in my time, I have no doubt. But I take issue only with real snoof-herders, or to put it differently, with actual invocations of imaginary damaged persons that occasionally show up as arguments against the continuation of a particular discussion or topic. I give wholly imaginary snoof-herders, or if you prefer, imagined positers of imaginary damaged persons, a completely free rein.

If you’re not real, you can do whatever you wish. That’s the beauty and the drawback of being unreal.

. Snoof
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A person of many principles, mostly of goodwill. Also, a hero in many facets.

“Hey, that Mother Theresa was a real Snoof.”

“Arnold Schwarzenegger really plays a great Snoof in movies.”

I’ll skip the rest of the definitions, though by the time you get to the end, you are probably ready to look for another coined word.

http://ozarque.com/ or her livejournal blog.

I like snoofs.

Eve, thanks for your disclaimer all the same.