What the Heck Does “Fecalcephalic” Mean?

You may have heard by now that across Hawaii, visitors and residents alike were awakened to the sound of blaring Civil Defense sirens on an otherwise peaceful Saturday morning. A tsunami was expected to hit after 11 am.

Luckily, it ended up being a non-event. We escaped almost any damage, except for some sewage treatment plant backups on Maui. And some very real losses for businesses that were closed.

So, the most memorable part of this non-event may be “the idiot” – you know, the guy that was seen wading in the water shortly before the tsunami was expected to hit. Some of my friends also called him a babooze. But perhaps the best description for this guy came from Howard Dicus (@AskHoward) on Saturday who wrote “Apotheosis of the dumbass” just for this guy.

In that post, Howard observed, “He might not have been a waterman, and he certainly was fecalcephalic, but he captured the attention of Hawaii.” But I was stumped. What is it to be fecalcephalic? Being a lazy, tech-savvy person who is part of the generation that turned Google from a noun to a verb, I naturally Googled the term. No luck. Even the great Google couldn’t help me. It returned Howard’s post as the top result. But I read the other search results and many others broke the term fecalcephalic into two words (fecal cephalic) or a hyphenated word (fecal-cephalic).

That made things easy. I just looked up definitions and found this:

Main Entry: fe·cal
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, or constituting feces

Main Entry: ce·phal·ic
Function: adjective
1 : of or relating to the head

Mash those two together to get the answer. One could argue that Howard just meant dumbass. But I wonder if he meant something more along the lines of…sh*t head?

By the way, there’s even a Facebook fan page of the fecalcephalic idiot, called “The idiot who was swimming in Waikiki during the tsunami warning” Check it out, join the fun, and read some of the feedback. It’s entertaining.

Mahalo!

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