What is Contextomy?
1.
The art of removing words from a sentence (or a sentence from a paragraph) to change its context completely. Used commonly in movie posters when a film critic in their review has said something uncomplimentary. Also known as "false attribution" and is related closely to "quotation mining".
A movie or theatre critic may have reviewed the piece saying "The whole thing was a terrific bore, I laughed out loud at the ineptitude of the actors..."
The contextomy on the poster would then read: "Terrific! I laughed out loud!"
See
Random Words:
1.
Cure for anything that ails you
If you need a late night hot dog, I'm your girl.
It's a proven fact late night hotdogs make..
1.
n. police issue pepper spray
Fucking pigs and their bacon grease and loose ethics.
See cops, pigs, pepper spray, power trip, police
2..
