Shvoongish adj.
After the manner of a
shvoonger Shvoonger n.
A person who shvoongs
Shvoong v.
To write for Shvoong.com
Shvoong.com n.
A website established recently with the purpose of collecting all the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of mankind into electronic format, for easier download and processing by our future robotic masters. In exchange for this service the creators of Shvoong.com will be given priority treatment after the fall of mankind, and will be taught badass ninja kung fu prior to their being uploaded into the Matrix with the body of a celebrity of their choice.
They are aided in this endeavour by advertisers who care more about receiving vast amounts of traffic to their sites to ease their terrible loneliness than actually making sales, and the tendency of web surfers to click on just about anything with a line underneath it just to see what it does (seriously, I guarantee you someone somewhere will wear their mouse buttons out
clicking on that). And of course, writers such as myself, who are paid a tithe (or tenth for those of you born past the time of the Domesday book, whose very existence demonstrates how pathetically exaggerated the title was) of the advertising revenues from each abstract we create.
(On an entirely separate note, did I mention that clicking 1000 times on the each of the links to the right will win you a SECRET TOY SURPRISE!!!)*
As far as I can see it seems to be a pretty damn good idea, the ambitiousness of which might account for its not having been attempted before. If it develops the right way it could quickly become an incredibly useful resource for book lovers, scholars of all kinds and just literate people in general. Of course, there’s always a chance that it could fall flat on its face as well, or still worse; turn into a very profitable waste of space and time, but fingers crossed that things’ll keep going good.
Oh, it also means something or other in Yiddish, how’s about that huh?
*No. I did not.