Hugo van KemenadeApr 7, 2025

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New #CutthroatCompound: Scatterbird

"The Scatterbird MK4 is the next generation of gas powered bird scarers."

It's a scarecrow!

https://portek.co.uk/product/scatterbird-mark-4-birdscaring-gas-gun/

Scatterbird MK4 Birdscaring Gas Gun - Portek Birdscaring and Agricultural Products

Designed and developed to incorporate ALL the features requested by farmers over the past 35 years. The Scatterbird MK4 is the next generation of gas powered bird scarers. Like it’s predecessor, the Scatterbird MK4 is a sturdy, purpose built bird scaring gas gun designed specifically to meet the needs of the farmer. The Scatterbird range has for many years set the industry standard for durability.

Portek Birdscaring and Agricultural Products
Encyclopedia BriannicaSep 11, 2024
Last night I dreamed a new #CutthroatCompound. Normally I don’t add ones I come up with to the big list because I’m looking for spontaneous productivity. But I dreamed of a Squatty Potty/Poopouri type bathroom easing product called BULGE-IT. A clean one could fit in your hand, I don’t really get what it was supposed to do. I feel like it should go on the list. So weird. What do you think?
Encyclopedia BriannicaAug 27, 2024
Is LORD FLASHHEART a #CutthroatCompound? Does he flash his heart, or is it like Richard the Lionhearted? Does his heart flash? Does he flash the hearts of his lovers, or his foes with a blade? What do you think? He is the cause of one of the great scenes of comedy, and I just learned there's a porcupine named after him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA https://www.instagram.com/flashearttheporcupine/
Lord Flasheart's Grand Entrance | Blackadder II | BBC Comedy Greats

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Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaAug 3, 2024
Here are all my ITs. The orange dates could definitely be antedated. #CutthroatCompound product names started with Elmer's GLUE-ALL (1947), SHED-RAIN (1947), and XPEL AIR (1955), but really had a boom in the 1980s and have continued since (GAINSIGHT, ADDHAIR, SWAPCARD, FOLLOWFLIGHT, GIVEVISION, TRAKCEL, etc.)
Encyclopedia BriannicaAug 2, 2024
What an odd and helpful product! And a #CutthroatCompound. THICK-IT (1987) is a beverage thickener for people with dysphagia. THICK was a transitive verb 1000 years ago but not so common this millennia.
Encyclopedia BriannicaAug 8, 2023
Yesterday I remembered how to use COUNTIF and SUM functions in Excel, so I made some new #CutthroatCompound productivity charts - it has revealed to me that through their recency and my active searching, I have found just about the same amount in the first 20 years of the 2000s as I have found in all of the 1900s. This tells me I need to look at lists of 20th century consumer products and joke/gaming publications to find less famous nonce instances that I would have found living through daily life in those times. #AmResearching
Encyclopedia BriannicaAug 7, 2023
Is... CHEEZ-IT (1921)... a #CutthroatCompound? A cracker that has been cheezed? Probably not, but maybe. The phrase CHEESE IT! is from 1811. Other -ITs: LITTLE MISS FIXIT (1911), IT'S IT (1928), WHATCHAMACALLIT (1942), POST-IT note (1975), TAKE IT candy bar (2013). It seems more likely to be endocentric (an It with Cheez, a cheesy thing), but I'd like it to be a verb. For fun. But it doesn't make sense. But maybe. #AmResearching
Encyclopedia BriannicaJun 28, 2023
Today from a Drawfee video, I learned about the Weartiger enemy from DragonQuest games - a new #cutthroatcompound for the list! (Originally from 1992) https://dragon-quest.org/wiki/Weartiger I already had "wearwolf" from this undated meme image. A nice pun used twice.
Weartiger - Dragon Quest Wiki

Encyclopedia BriannicaJan 27, 2023
Because @discordjack and I just played the new Looney Tunes Mayhem board game, I’ve been on a WB lore kick. And wouldntcha know it? I found another #CutthroatCompound. In a 1945 cartoon, Bugs dresses up in a long beard as DR. KILLPATIENT to further befuddle Elmer into thinking he has Rabbititis. (The name built from the fictional Dr Kildare from the NBC show?) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Tonic
Hare Tonic - Wikipedia

Encyclopedia BriannicaJan 21, 2023
In Episode 12 of #SteepleChase #TAZ, the #McElroy boys riff on reality dating shows. Justin introduces a hunky character named Scott Boldflex (Bowflex?). Griffin plays along and invents Jeremy Toughleg, and then Travis makes up Debbie Bouncebody. Does she bounce her body? Is it a bouncy body? No way to know if she’s a new #CutthroatCompound, but are all additions to the long line of characters summed up by their names. Snow White, Ash Ketchum, Guy Smiley. #AmResearching