Will Wheaton reminisces here about Sniglets; the respondents include a number of canon contributors, such as Ellie DeLano:
I actually had a Sniglet published in one of his many Sniglet books - a big accomplishment for teenage me. Here it is:
Chocregation (Chock-re-gay-shun)v. (1): The act of separating your M&M's into color groups before eating.(2)
(1) As phrased, that should be a noun; “chocregate” would be the verb.
(2) Van Halen’s contract famously included a chocregational clause, stipulating that the backstage refreshments include a supply of M&M’s with all the brown ones removed—-on pain of cancelling the show entirely.
This wasn’t rock-star divo(3) temperament; it was a litmus test to make sure the stagehands had line-item-checked every particular of the safety precautions demanded by the band’s special-effect-intensive show. If the hosts had missed the M&M’s, that was a pretty reliable sign that they’d overlooked other critical—-and potentially life-threatening—details.(4)
(3) The masculine form of the word exists, and in fact is the name of an operatic boy band; how about we give it equal time?
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Date: 2025-06-09 04:09 pm (UTC)I actually had a Sniglet published in one of his many Sniglet books - a big accomplishment for teenage me. Here it is:
Chocregation (Chock-re-gay-shun)v. (1): The act of separating your M&M's into color groups before eating.(2)
(1) As phrased, that should be a noun; “chocregate” would be the verb.
(2) Van Halen’s contract famously included a chocregational clause, stipulating that the backstage refreshments include a supply of M&M’s with all the brown ones removed—-on pain of cancelling the show entirely.
This wasn’t rock-star divo(3) temperament; it was a litmus test to make sure the stagehands had line-item-checked every particular of the safety precautions demanded by the band’s special-effect-intensive show. If the hosts had missed the M&M’s, that was a pretty reliable sign that they’d overlooked other critical—-and potentially life-threatening—details.(4)
(3) The masculine form of the word exists, and in fact is the name of an operatic boy band; how about we give it equal time?
(4) https://www.safetydimensions.com.au/van-halen/