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Title: New Words
Post by: flip on May 30, 2008, 11:48:50 AM
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational 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. Here
are this year's winners.
 Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one
letter
 altered from a real word. Some are terrifically innovative:
 
 1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts
until you realize it was your money to start with.
 
 2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
 
 3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people, that
stops bright ideas from penetrating. The Bozone layer, unfortunately,
showslittle sign of breaking down in the near future.
 
 4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders
the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
 
 5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
 
 6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and
the person who doesn't get it.
 
 7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running
late.
 
 8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
 
 9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra
credit.)
 
 10. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all
these really bad vibes, right? And then like, the Earth explodes and
it's  like, a serious bummer.
 
 11. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the
day consuming only things that are good for you.
 
 12. Glibido: All talk and no action
 
 13. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
when they come at you rapidly-or when you're drunk.
 
 14. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just
after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
 
 15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets
into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out
 
 16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a
worm in the fruit you're eating.
 
 17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
 

Title: Re: New Words
Post by: monrein on May 30, 2008, 12:06:08 PM
Those are seriously terrific. :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; Thanks Flip.
Title: Re: New Words
Post by: twirl on May 30, 2008, 12:38:48 PM
14.      :yahoo;
Title: Re: New Words
Post by: flip on May 30, 2008, 01:09:07 PM
I prefer #17
Title: Re: New Words
Post by: twirl on May 30, 2008, 01:35:54 PM
Flip
my twin sister is so horrified of spiders, she throws telephone books at them, she almost fainted during the Potter movie where all those spiders came out
I have seen her do the arachnolepic many times :rofl; :rofl;
Title: Re: New Words
Post by: mcjane on May 30, 2008, 02:49:27 PM
How clever.
Title: Re: New Words
Post by: Romona on May 30, 2008, 05:00:38 PM
 :rofl;
Title: Re: New Words
Post by: Mizar on May 30, 2008, 06:27:14 PM

   Too Funny!