Discombobulated

The Bullets embarrass the Vulcans, 36-16

NORWOOD, AL - According to Mr. Webster "discombobulated" is an adjective characterized as being dazed, confused, and in disorder. "Discombobulate" was one in a series of words invented in the early to mid-1800s as part of a fad popular among educated high-society types who made up faux words by compiling Latin prefixes, suffixes, roots and other non-Latin components into silly-sounding combinations. "Discombobulate" itself is used to mean confused, or disoriented now, but originally meant embarrassed, upset, or generally thrown off mentally. If you knock off the suffixes and prefixes you end up with a nonsensible, irrelevant root word "bobule", but that’s not terribly important because the sound of the word was meant to be illustrative of its meaning, and you get the "not with it mentally" part from the dis and com. A good modern day use of the word would be: "Alabama's defense was a discombobulated mess of inadequate preparation and failing execution that led to an overall poor performance in last Saturday's embarrassing loss to Vanderbilt". In Week 5 of the 30th season of the BDFL, it was not a good week for the previously unbeaten teams as they both looked discombobulated. The previously undefeated Freebirds fell prey to the Sloth Monsters, while the previously undefeated Vulcans got embarrassed by the Bullets. In other discombobulated performances in Week 5 of the BDFL season, the Grenadiers surrendered to the Bandits, the Dogs rolled over for the Cheetahs and the PowerSleds got railroaded by the Juggernauts.

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