Pandiculation!

pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\, noun:an instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning

"Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator."-- Time, 1942-04-12

by 1611 from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix -ion.

Its weird when cool words have simple meanings, and me personally i have to wonder why in the hell we came up with words like this. I think a lot of the "unique" and "unusual" science and language come from smart people being to stubborn to admit they are wrong or are making things up all together. Like this word for example, way long ago two latin dudes were chillin and one dude didn't get enough sleep the night before. so he goes to yawn and simply do the whole stretchy yawning prowess of a lion, and the other latin dude must have been like "hmmm why must you pandiculari." and so the tired latin dude goes "what the hell did you just call me?" and the smart latin dude was like what you just performed pandiculari. not knowing how to react and being kinda of tired (obviously) he just let it go and the word stuck and now has evolved to our pandiculation. must have been cool living in days where you can just make up words and people bought it, now they just look at you funny and call you stupid.......trust me.

Another example to backup my case, this time in science. i had thought of this when i first learned about but then a comedian also brought it to public attention was the male seahorse carries the baby and gives birth! the only animal in the universe that i know of that the male carries the baby and gives birth... what a load of horse puckey! you know damn well that's a stubborn biologist way back in the day when seahorse were discovered and saw one and was like "yup that's the male sea horse, what a beautiful animal." and his partner said "dude it just gave birth." stunned yet not wanting to admit he was wrong he said "oh in seahorse species the male has the baby." jimminy christmas i say!

i think this happens a lot and i am tempted to find something i can make up and people will go with it, whether it be something discovered, or a word. hmmm maybe i just snacklecracked my knuckles it certainly felt instinctive.........till next time.............