obnoxiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obnoxi(ous) + -osity.
Senses: examples: text: > Specifically, how do you handle a Paladin PC that is being played
> as a pain in the ass instead of a Paladin. . .
[…]
I've had to handle obnoxious paladins in campaigns before. Usually the reason for the obnoxiosity was that the player didn't really understand how paladins (according to me) are supposed to think.
ref: 1985 April 27, Philip Kos, “Paladins”, in net.games.frp (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: Are you ever tempted to give people a real answer when they ask “how ya doin’?” or “whaddaya know?” Me too. Of course the urge to kill varies in direct proportion with my mood and the degree of obnoxiosity of the asker.
ref: 1990 March 15, Ken Rand, “Media Man! If I felt any better I’d have to be two of me”, in Millard County Chronicle Progress, volume 80, number 35, Delta, Ut., page 2:
text: When I am trying to bring up an issue I think is likely driven by one of the child-personas, sometimes it helps to attempt to write to my adult self, using the right hand. Dunno if this would work for someone who didn't spend HOURS, as a small but obnoxious person, learning to take notes bassackward, so that people who teased me for writing left-handed, with the arm hooked around the page, would really have something to bitch about. (Never did use mirror script on a test or anything, but did keep my notebook, one semester (alas, before the housefire) in mirror just for obnoxiosity's sake.)
ref: 1993 June 14, STella, “Handedness (anecdotes )”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: : Could someone please post the instructions for creating a
: kill file? I'm having trouble getting mine working and would
: like for someone to give me all the proper instructions so
: that I can edit the crap portion out of this newsgroup.
Wait a minute. Let me turn up the obnoxiosity knob on my keyboard.
Someone will then in short order post instructions for creating a kill file.
-- Captain Nitpick
ref: 1994 May 5, Bill Evans, “Help needed for kill files”, in rec.humor (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: >: Your original recent posts in netcom.general were not about music.
>: Others said, effectively, "See how obnoxious he is? If you want to
>: see more examples of his obnoxiosity, see ..."
>
>: So I looked at the archives not to check out the musical debate, but
>: the obnoxiosity level. You passed the test with flying colors.
ref: 1995 August 29, Albert Silverman, “slvrmn archives”, in netcom.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: STOP! STOP! The contest's over. / As one of the judges, let me tell you that it's just too darned hard to pick. All of you contestants keep topping the others in obnoxiosity. How about if we just name ALL of you The Next Obnoxious Personae?
ref: 1996 September 14, JMingo, “Contest: Predict the Next Obnoxious Persona”, in misc.writing (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: That's totally a sign that they take IRC way too seriously. basically, I think they need to get help. Some university discovered an internet addiction syndrome. At first I thought it was a load of shit, but after seeing the way people on DALnet respond to criticism, lameness or just plain obnoxiosity, I'm beginning to think those researchers were right.
ref: 1996 November 26, Brandt Fundak, “30+ IRC NETS listing now = 40!!!”, in alt.irc (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: :Please, do you have to be so obnoxious about what most people recognize
:as greatness. yasmin2
[…]
Of course, as obnoxiosity (coined by Woody Allen) goes, Mary. You have the crown on Usenet. You are right there with odell and Mr Spam in the Usenet Kook Hall of Fame...
ref: 1997 July 16, Milt, “Confederate Battle Flag”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: >[snipped rest of text as I used up the silliness quota]
I didn't know you had a silliness quota!
Hey, is there an obnoxiosity(tm) quota we can enforce on certain other posters?
ref: 1997 October 28, Jordan Weber-Flink, “Yet another nutty theory about the End of Everything(tm)”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: I was reminiscing about Eugene Levy as Crowley in *Stay Tuned* and it occurred to me that he's something of an updated Bobby Bittman. He's got the obnoxiosity, the cigar, and the laugh.
ref: 1999 April 23, Michael Morbius, “Bittmanesque guy in *Stay Tuned*”, in alt.tv.sctv (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: >I should point out that Ken the Workaholic was in his office again
>today, but that was because there was an exam that needed marking, and
>these things work on the principle of "sooner started, sooner
>finished[1]". Besides, when my share of it is done (which will be
>tomorrow, sometime), I shall be able to be obnoxious in the presence
>of my fellow markers, and that is always pleasant (for the one being
>obnoxious, at any rate).
Ah, the joys of obnoxiosity. Dunno if it's worth all that work though.
ref: 1999 April 26, A B Magee, “Camden final reminder”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: He's an obnoxious blockhead, just like you. And neither of you know it or likely will ever know it. You were born annoying. It is a gift. Enjoy it. […] Sounding more and more like him---blaming everybody but yourself. A dash of paranoia spices up your obnoxiosity.
ref: 1999 May 25, gack, “I AM IN THE CREDITS, I AM IN THE FILM”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: >"I'll try to stop being mean when you stop being stupid and obnoxious."
You're so clever. I could never compete. At least not with your non-obnoxiosity (? - hey, the spell-checker liked it!).
ref: 1999 June 11, Tom Robertson, “Email harassment problem”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: Later, for reasons best known to yourself, but probably not a million miles away from having been told more or less politely to shut the fuck up before your personal obnoxiosity queers the pitch for everyone else, then turn around and attack those who only moments before were your best friends and bosom buddies.
ref: 1999 July 16, Alan Hope, “WRITERS! SHARE COMPUTER SCREENS AT BUDDYHELP.COM.”, in alt.writing (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: The poor Flame Warrior Grammarian in me has to suppress himself till he's about to burst and then he most often erupts with some considerable obnoxiosity.
ref: 2000 December 21, Jim Standish, “[solstice suite] we enter dark #1”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024:
text: MOST OBNOXIOUS CELEBRITY / 1. Cub Carson / […] The perennial pick for Best Radio Personality also has a lock on the MOC laurels: Mr. Carson has owned this category since its inception, so complete is his understanding of the world of obnoxiosity.
ref: 2001 June 7–13, “Best of Edmonton 2001: Pickin’ the winners”, in SEE Magazine, number 392, Edmonton, Alta., →ISSN, page 32:
text: It seems that the old sow got a little soused at the cowboy celebration. Willy and I were granted a reprieve from her “obnoxiosity.” She was reposing in all her bizarre glory in the upstairs bedchamber.
ref: 2004, Martin R. Riehle, Square Dancing in Hell, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 120:
text: I couldn’t believe how snippy my sister was being. Honestly, if I hadn’t had the gossip item of the decade to show her, I would have just turned around and left her room. But I had to show her Isabella’s picture of Mrs. Hintermeister. It was going to knock her socks off! I’ll bet she would snap right out of her “obnoxiosity” (I know that’s not a real word, but I made it up and I think it describes how Juliette’s been acting perfectly!). […] Juliette rolled her eyes. “Talking here!” she said to me. (Obnoxiosity!)
ref: 2006, Devra Newberger Speregen, Trouble with a Capital O (Miss O & Friends), New York, N.Y.: Watson-Guptill Publications, →ISBN, pages 44 and 71:
text: Nineteen eighty-four was the pinnacle and last bastion of my obnoxiosity. I was really full on. I’d just had a year and half of enthwartenment of my outward-going-ness, and in 1984 I was Frank Zappa’s bass player again. I was twenty-four, at the height of my powers, emotionally and musically and humorously, and Frank let me do anything that I wanted.
ref: 2013, Thomas Wictor, Ghosts and Ballyhoo: Memoirs of a Failed L.A. Music Journalist, Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 31:
synonyms: obnoxiousness
obnoxity
glosses: The quality of being obnoxious.