[HN Gopher] The Recombobulation Area (2023)
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       The Recombobulation Area (2023)
        
       Author : sans_souse
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2025-02-09 20:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | rasalas wrote:
       | I knew exactly what this meant before reading the article.
       | 
       | I had to pass through a similar screening at the courthouse every
       | morning while I was on a jury. (Unlike airports you don't need to
       | remove your shoes.)
       | 
       | Pro-tip: If you wear a belt, get one with a plastic buckle.
        
       | codeduck wrote:
       | > So in 2008, the wise and good-humored manager (who retired in
       | 2014), did what no other airport manager in the world thought to
       | do: he invented a word and a concept, "recombobulation."
       | 
       | Except that Piers Anthony used it in a book in 1983.
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       | https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:recombobulate
        
         | dr_dshiv wrote:
         | With a word like that, it's more like a discovery than an
         | invention
        
           | emchammer wrote:
           | Still perfectly cromulent though
        
             | cwmoore wrote:
             | Cromulent as a library pastry
        
           | xg15 wrote:
           | I call parallel evolution!
        
         | Thorrez wrote:
         | Those quotes are recombobulate and recombobulated. Here's a
         | quote from 1970 with recombobulation:
         | 
         | https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recombobulation#English
        
       | veryfancy wrote:
       | Beloved Milwaukee institution.
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | I think the Discombobulation Area should also be indicated with a
       | sign.
        
       | Angostura wrote:
       | I could certainly do with one of these given the state of the
       | world. What a lovely idea
        
       | jonstewart wrote:
       | MKE is a great mid-sized airport. It has, of all things, a nice
       | used book store in it.
        
         | sangerSCB wrote:
         | Renaissance Books! I'm reading a first edition of Ataturk I
         | picked up there now. It's not your average airport bookstore.
         | MKE also has a coat check. Very handy for quick trips to warmer
         | locales in the winter.
        
         | cafard wrote:
         | Wow! I browsed the book store in the late 1980s. I'm glad to
         | hear that it is still operating.
        
         | uxp100 wrote:
         | Yes. Renaissance had a huge store (over a million volumes
         | across 4 stories) downtown for years that was pretty sketchy,
         | with bookshelves full of copies of the NEC from the 70s
         | collapsed into the aisles, just laying in piles, and hundreds
         | of copies of titles assigned to high schoolers boxed up on
         | their upper stories. Really sort of a warehouse for their tidy
         | airport location. They now have a small second location in
         | Southridge mall, which is a appealingly dingy. Their downtown
         | competitor, downtown books, which was less of a dump downsized
         | about 10 years ago to a single story from 3 stories but is
         | still downtown in a different location.
        
       | nullc wrote:
       | SFO terminal 2 has something similar, though they might have
       | chosen a different neologism for it.
        
       | muragekibicho wrote:
       | Polymarket poll that 'recombobulate' enters Nigerian
       | conversational register before Jan 2027.
        
       | moffkalast wrote:
       | First, distract target...
        
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