preworry

chained_bear commented on the word preworry

This is what I, and several family members, do regularly: worry about things well before they need worrying about. Just in case you have to worry about them later--preworrying lets you avoid the rush.

We've been saying it for years, but I never thought of listing it until I saw premorse on freerice.com and thought I knew what it should mean...

January 12, 2008

mollusque commented on the word preworry

Love it!

January 12, 2008

sonofgroucho commented on the word preworry

This is one of my greatest failings.

January 13, 2008

reesetee commented on the word preworry

See niche worrying. :-)

January 13, 2008

mollusque commented on the word preworry

Uh oh, I just randomed preworry. *Worries*

November 22, 2008

reesetee commented on the word preworry

Now you're in for it.

November 23, 2008

chained_bear commented on the word preworry

You should have worried about that before, mollusque. Now you have to worry harder because you didn't preworry about randoming this word.

Wait. Now I'm worried about using "randoming."

November 23, 2008

mollusque commented on the word preworry

C_b, if you worry about two things at once, do you have to worry half as long or twice as long so that each gets its quota of worrying? That is, is worrying synergistic?

November 23, 2008

bilby commented on the word preworry

If someone arrives at preworry without preworrying, I think the job is pretty much done. Mollusque shall now proceed to worry and stay there until he rolls a six.

November 23, 2008

mollusque commented on the word preworry

I rolled a six and landed on learning curve, which explains why I was supposed to preworry. *Slides down curve and exits left.*

November 23, 2008

bilby commented on the word preworry

*rescues mollusque with a J-curve*

November 23, 2008

whichbe commented on the word preworry

I just preworried this might be an insidious meme waiting to happen.

November 23, 2008

chained_bear commented on the word preworry

Bilby, you obviously don't understand preworrying.

Mollusque, you have to worry twice as much, plus worry about all the things you haven't yet thought about preworrying about.

November 24, 2008

reesetee commented on the word preworry

Chained is right. If you don't properly preworry, then you end up postworrying about not having worried enough, and you waste precious worrying energy worrying about something that should have been worried about sooner.

This, not surprisingly, worries me.

November 25, 2008

sionnach commented on the word preworry

*is worried about possibly having contributed to the explosive decapitation of yarb elsewhere on site*

enveloped by feelings of vulpine guilt

November 25, 2008

mollusque commented on the word preworry

That sounds like postworrying. Unless you're worried about doing it again.

November 25, 2008

whichbe commented on the word preworry

I'm preworried that a postworry could start as a worrylet but then develop into full-blown regret.

November 25, 2008

reesetee commented on the word preworry

Worrylet? That implies smallness. All worry is huge.

November 25, 2008

bilby commented on the word preworry

Don't preworry. Be prehappy.

November 25, 2008

mollusque commented on the word preworry

C_b, should we be worried that worried is an anagram of wordier?

November 26, 2008

Prolagus commented on the word preworry

Well, as compared to one year ago, I'm both worried and wordier.

November 26, 2008

chained_bear commented on the word preworry

Well, you can worry about it, but you sure can't preworry about it anymore. It's too late!

November 26, 2008

Telofy commented on the word preworry

Often I simultaneously preworry that I'm not worrying enough about the worrisome, and that I'm worrying too much and thus jamming the unworrying process, without the two preworries annihilating each other (or themselves?).

But I don't recommend that approach.

December 30, 2008

reesetee commented on the word preworry

Well, it sounds as though you're perfectly healthy, then. :-)

January 1, 2009