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Came across gee-whizery in an article about remote-controlled rats, today. I like it...it sort of has a refreshing semantic blend of gadgetry and clever wizardy (so to speak...anyway, I caught the image immediately upon encountering the word and thought "cool"). Has anyone seen gee-whizery before? Here's the article url for reference: http://dailynews.netscape.com/dailynews/cnn/story_2.tmpl?story=2002050209095001206420&shortdate=0502The Only WO'N!
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Haven't see this coined phrase, but it's a terrific one and does capture the sense of wonder and wow! Love it, in fact!
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see: gadzookery, gasbaggery, humbuggery, et al.
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see: gadzookery, gasbaggery, humbuggery, et al.
Yeahbut®, tsuwm, with all due respects, it seems to me that the words you cite are totally dismissive, whereas gee-whizery has a celebratory note of affirmation ringing through it like you never expected the gazookery, gasbaggery, or humbuggery to work, but it did. Which, to me, makes it a bit different than this other pack.
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an article about remote-controlled rats...
only on AWAD... [/marvel] :)
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REMOTE CONTROLLED RATS !?!?
UGH!!!
Today rats; tomorrow dogs; next week, certain humans such as prisoners, mental patients, etc; the week after, anyone they can get. Where's PETA when you want them?
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How come it isn't whizzery, or whiz-ery?
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Akshually®, Bob, it says they implanted electrodes into their brains while they wer sleeping (knocked out) and that they can control them from a distance of six football fields away. Better go back and watch The Manchurian Candidate. This is WhitmanO'Neill, Refiner of Past History, Ministry of Truth, signing off...  The Only WO'N!
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Whitman goshes gee-whizery has a celebratory note of affirmation ringing through it..
in the context of this article, I have to disagree:
Other researchers said the work is interesting but is an engineering feat, not an advance in animal neuroscience.
Randy Gallistel, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Rutgers University, said it's basically the same thing, with a twist, that scientists found they could do almost 50 years ago by stimulating the reward-sensing area of a rat's brain.
"Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades," he said.
seems rather a put-down.
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Whitman goshesGosh, I didn't know my gosh was showing!  Am I still goshing?  The Only WO'N!
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