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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 04:38 PM
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Washington Post: Annua Mensa Invitational - altering words/winners
Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 04:39 PM by katty
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.


Here are the winners:
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. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one
got extra credit.)

11. 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.

12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting
through the day consuming only things that are good
for you.

13. Glibido : All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to
seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance
performed just after you've accidentally walked
through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.) : Satan in the form of a mosquito,
that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning
and cannot be cast out.

17. 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 proctologist.

14. oyster , n. a person who sprinkles his
conversation with Yiddishism 's.

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
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 05:06 PM
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1. wonderful stuff, this. :0)
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Der Blaue Engel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 05:11 PM
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2. Great stuff
Though I wonder why there are a number of winning entries that didn't meet the requirements. Decafalon changes two letters, as does Caterpallor, and I don't even know what letters Arachnoleptic Fit is supposed to be changing: narco? epi? And Frisbeetarianism: I don't recall that being a common word. :shrug:

(Sorry; I had to do it. I'm a Mensal Defective. :rofl:)
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 05:38 PM
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5. You are made of far stauncher stuff than I.
Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 06:00 PM by Idealist Hippie
I was so totally amused that my neurotic-compulsive, anal-retentive proofreader instincts didn't even kick in. The current confusion everywhere between peek/peak/pique must drive you nuts.

Edit: oops -- AMONG peek/peak/pique...:blush:
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Der Blaue Engel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 06:03 PM
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6. And yet I missed the typo in the subject line
;)

My biggest pet peeve at the moment is people using "lead" when they mean "led." I see it in major publications all the time now. I'm on a crusade to stamp that nonsense out. :D
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:47 PM
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9. Even worse is when they say lead and mean antimony.
...
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 05:22 PM
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3. Moran . . . .
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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 05:25 PM
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4. Thanks, I needed that! Ah, to see examples of intellect in a country
where our leader cowers before it!
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Sacajawea Donating Member (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:35 PM
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7. Humongous LOL!!!! Can't decide which is funniest!!!!
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:46 PM
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8. I love these. Those Mensa types are actually good for something.
:rofl:
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 09:21 PM
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10. Thanks!
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