Neologism, word playing, idiosyncratic humour

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I remember my mum telling me how my dad could never understand what I was talking about (aged up to 8 - didn't see so much of my dad after that). I used to make up words, but particularly saying words backwards and "spoonerisms" (swopping first bits of words), e.g. spontaneously thinking aloud how we were in the car approaching the "krap rac"(car park). Just today ( I found myself smiling as I picked up my "bopping shag" (shopping bag) (shag = slang for having sex, for any non-native English speakers) though I didn't spontaneously say it aloud.

I think a recent example of idiosyncratic humour is, upon reading "S & M Pickering" I thought it sounded like a kinky marriage proposal "S&M? Pick a ring!" This is a good example of what goes on in my head, sometimes finding myself amused, but unable to say why - others would probably not appreciate it (going by their previous reactions) especially if they're trying to say something serious..and yet life would be so much duller without my inner entertainment. If I am with someone who knows me well personally, I can usually share the joke. It's the more formal, superficial relationships which are harder and I do my best to suppress my thoughts and reactions.

And in secondary school, there was "bar g-raph" (bar graph/bugger off) when frustrated or bored in the maths class.

I had some agitation last times and wrote in Google "random" neologisms such as "zuntavala", "velnatoko", "unpokedene". They were not found by search engine.

Another neologisms which were not found in Google: nihtalima, fernaturix, mornucolum, nirbetanum, lurrolen.

Lurrolen - it was formed from Polish word "urojenia" (delusions).

Other examples of "meaningless" neologisms: sictulamo, vensecoti, urpatonbive, angoplimato, lantobargi, intelavisco, conlibrivo, urdalibe.

Another "meaningless" neologisms: galarmena (it might be something surprising that this word was not found by Google), nertovete, urdinolino.

"Zembicota" - Google did not found this word. It comes from Polish phrase zęby kota, meaning "cat's teeth".

Neologism from my last posts in this topic can be now found by Google (they occur on this page, which can be found by this search engine).

Bizastrosis - state of having very bizarre mentality.

Likeme - someone who is similar to me.

phonetic humor here-
ask somebody [face to face] this- what is a "collideascope"? it's a device for measuring car accidents

Vanonatix, canigasterus, cartonovets. Last word is a modification of the Polish word "kartonowiec", which I "found" in one of a topics in Polish AS forums. This word means "a cat which spends hours in box".

when somebody asks you how things are with you, and you're having a tough go of it, you can tell 'em, "things are just peaches and scream."

Today I haven't found the word "aspielogy" in Google.

Aucorology - study of aucory, (hypotetical) branch of sciene about aucory.

Aukien - word constructed like "Aspien" (for me "Aspien" means female Aspie, I wound this word in Internet) meaning a female with aucory. The word might in some way be similar to the phrase "a queen".

I'm the only person I know who says "'puter."

Velbecotus (plural Velbecoti) - latinised word from Polish "we łbie kot". "We łbie" - colloquial phrase meaning "in head", "kot" - "cat". Both "Velbecotus" and "Velbecoti" were not found by Google when this post was written. Other variants (in Polish "w" is pronounced like English "v"): Welbecotus - Welbecoti, Velbekotus - Velbekoti, Welbekotus - Welbekoti.

i am what I am
not a potato nor yam
more like honeyed ham

Surmulgana, tumbulec, revotomana, uferolati - next "meaningless" neologisms.