A number of people in my family have mental illnesses. Luckily, it seems that my mother and father managed the genetic lotto and have come out fairly normal. Furthermore, they managed to pass a decent level of normalcy to me. Except for this one small tick… I get shit stuck in my head. And no we aren’t discussing the run of a mill shitty song being stuck in your head (though Patrick did have to ask me why I kept humming and saying mazal tov and l’chaim over and over again last Sunday).
No I get shit STUCK! We are talking about massive compulsion to repeat and say the word out loud. When I was in middle school I got the phrase “Little Lord Fauntleroy” into my brain. Just those three words… over and over and over again. For weeks it would resurface and go on a massive rotation. What makes it worse is I want to say this out loud and in sentences. Obviously this is not such an awesome phrase unless you are studying children’s literature.
A couple of years back I got ‘Kiosk’ in ye ole noggin. That one lasted for… FOREVER. Like a month or more. I just wanted to find ways to work kiosk into the conversation. Luckily, at that time I worked in a mall around Christmas, so I could satisfyingly say kiosk quite a lot.
Sadly, this week ‘Numfuckery’ seems to be the chosen word. First, this really sucks because anything containing ‘fuck’ is frowned upon, especially when your 8 1/2 months pregnant. Secondly, this isn’t even really a word. I mean even Urban Dictionary doesn’t realize this awesome word with either spelling. Though, I will probably go submit it after I finish this post. In my head, though, I want to shout it out and point out many levels of numbfuckery (or stupidity) that are going on around me. So please help my strange brain tick seem a little more normal by making num or numb-fuckery a real word.
P.S. Does anyone else have this brain tick/complusion?
UPDATE 11/08/09: Urban DICKtionary Declined this:
Numbfuckery
From the root numbfuck:
1. n. Used to describe a high level of stupid activities
2. n. extreme stupidity
Rush Limbaugh, reporting a fake Obama thesis, without researching it, was a clear example of numbfuckery.
Numbfuckery is an awesome word. I can’t believe those shitheads declined it. They will rue the day! But yeah, I get phrases stuck in my head to. Like “Pikachu” and “Constantinople” especially. The only way to get it out is to use it a lot until your head gets bored with it.
I know! I couldn’t believe they turned it down. ‘Pikachu’ is a good one to get stuck… Or his little saying Pika, Pika. Lord, that’ll get totally jammed in my brain.