Having uttered this word
smog-cation in a bar, I investigated further using the unscientific method of a
Google search. The first point to be considered was whether my word was
smocation or smogation...
'Smocation' seemed to already exist. The search brought back:
·
various references to and even videos of
'Silicon Valley, season 2, episode 8';
·
an entry in https://portmanteaulist.wordpress.com/category/smocation/ from
2015; 'smoker + location from Silicon Valley, season 2, episode 8';
·
and an app that aimed to let smokers find each
other!
The
returns for 'Smogation', on the other hand, had no connection with the blended
word concept I was interested in. According to May's Mostly Warfare Blog in
a brief synopsis of the Battle of
Grunwald in 1410, the Smogations
were a pagan tribe that fought against the Teutonic Knights in the 'Smogation
uprising'.
The other Google suggestion was the Smogarians,
who various internet answer sites claim are 'a
politically correct fictitious race of people who are intellectually
challenged.' Apparently, they feature in the Super-Duper
Good Clean Jokes for Kids by Bob
Phillips, published on the first of April, 2000.
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