{"id":16313,"date":"2006-04-06T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/04\/06\/spoddy-1.html"},"modified":"2006-04-06T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T02:48:31","slug":"spoddy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/04\/06\/spoddy-1\/","title":{"rendered":"spoddy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to The Free Dictionary, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/spod\">spod<\/a>\" is British slang for someone \"who spends an inordinate amount of time exchanging remarks in computer chatrooms or participating in discussions in newsgroups or on bulletin boards.\"<\/p>\n<p>I suppose there had to be a word for it.<\/p>\n<p>(SPOD is, of course, also an abbreviation for the Spinning Pizza Of Death, the wait cursor that appears in Mac OS&nbsp;X when an application is temporarily or permanently nonresponsive.)<\/p>\n<p>I encountered \"spoddy\" in a hecklerspray item about the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hecklerspray.com\/hecklerspray\/2006\/04\/the_simpsons_mo.html\"><cite>Simpsons<\/cite> movie<\/a>, which referred to the also upcoming <cite>Halo<\/cite> movie as \"a spoddy videogame movie.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Free Dictionary, &#8220;spod&#8221; is British slang for someone &#8220;who spends an inordinate amount of time exchanging remarks in computer chatrooms or participating in discussions in newsgroups or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}