Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational
which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary,
alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a
new definition.
2005 winners are:
1. Cashtration (n. ): The act of buying a house, which renders
the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts
until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a
hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n. ): The substance surrounding stupid people that
stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately,
shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the
purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of
sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running
late.
10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.
)
12. Karmageddon: It's when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it's a serious
bummer.
13. Decafalon (n. ): The grueling event of getting through the
day consuming only things that are good for you
14. Glibido: All talk and no action.
15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
when they come at you rapidly.
16. Arachnoleptic fit (n. ): The frantic dance performed just
after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
17. Beelzebug (n. ): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets
into your bedroom at three in the mo rning and cannot be cast out.
18. Caterpallor (n. ): The color you turn after finding half a
worm in the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its
yearly contest,
in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common
words.
And the winners are:
1. coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs.
2. flabbergasted, adj. appalled by discovering how much weight
one has gained.
3. abdicate, v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, v. to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. willy-nilly, adj. impotent.
6. negligent, adj. absentmindedly answering the door when
wearing only a nightgown.
7. lymph, v. to walk with a lisp.
8. gargoyle, n. olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. flatulence, n. emergency vehicle that picks up someone who
has been run over by a steamroller.
10. balderdash, n. a rapidly receding hairline.
11. testicle, n. a humorous question on an exam.
12. rectitude, n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted by
proctologists.
13. pokemon, n. a Rastafarian proctologi st.
14. oyster, n. a person who sprinkles his conversation with
Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. the belief that, after death,
the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. circumvent, n. an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
Jewish men
LMAO, I hope it emails to blogger okay.
Much more upbeat than a WTF Wednesday!
4 comments:
You know Jen, I'm sure 1/2 of our customer's actually believe these to be true!!!! :-0 did I say that outloud! hee hee
Hey Jen! what a good list!!
#1, #12, #16-of the first list had me laughing so hard!!!
thanks for sharing!
p.s. thanks for stopping by my tt! You said your husband was 1 of 7, my husband is #4 of 7 kids, and I only have a sister. I can't deal with all the noise, but it doesn't bother my husband at all to invite all our neices and nephews over and let them run all through the house screaming...we grew up very differently!
Jenny in Ca
Oh god that was pure pleasure. I need to start using these in my daily conversations.
As a lover of words, I loved loved loved this list! I am totally stealing it and adding these to my vocabulary.
I'll have to pass them on to my sisters, fellow word-lovers.
Thank you so much!
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