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Ope-ium
Jun
19
2025
One of the more recent phrases that seems to have taken off in talk radio, specifically sports radio, is “_ope-ium”.
It is, of course, a riff on the word “opium”. I first heard it as “hope-ium” – meaning that a fan of a particular team is relying on hope to get him through the season. Like one would rely on opium to get through the day.
And then a few weeks the radio hosts used the term “cope-ium”, to indicate that the hope-ium wore off and reality is setting in and now the sports fan is trying to cope with the team being worse than expected.
Why stop there? Noticing the trend, I was inspired to coin the rest of the “ope-ium” terms. Here we go:
- Hope-ium : Anticipating a good season, expecting the best of the situation
- Cope-ium : Recognizing things aren’t as good as they should have been but rationalizing it
- Mope-ium : Realizing things can’t be rationalized and letting it get you down
- Nope-ium : Giving up on the team, jumping off hte bandwagon
- Dope-ium : Not sure on this one; I think I’ll go with “dope” as in “cool”
- Lope-ium : Addicted to walking with long strides
- Pope-ium : Looking to the head of the Catholic Church to get your fix
- Rope-ium : Addicted to, umm, rope?
- Taupe-ium : Needing beige colors to get you through the day
- Slope-ium : Rise over run, baby
- Trope-ium : Overuse of cliches
I see the terms stopped being sports-related partway through. Oh well. I did not keep the topic in scope-ium.
Where then is my hope? And who looks at my hope?
Job 17:15
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 7:41 am and has been carefully placed in the Current Events, Sports category.
