Neuticles (most unnecessary candidate?)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 04:13:04PM -0500, Laurence Horn wrote:
> Yup, just what they sound like:
>
> http://www.neuticles.com/videos.php
>
> Half a million pairs sold, and apparently Kim Kardashian is one of the many pleased customers (for her dog, she says).
>
> Yes, as we've discussed, it's always tricky to determine whether it's the *word* that's unnecessary (or least likely to succeed) or whether it's the *concept*.  You decide.
>

We already did. This won Most Outrageous in 2002:

http://www.americandialect.org/2002_words_of_the_year

Jesse Sheidlower
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