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Mensa's New Words for 2005 (humor)
e-mail to PA Times | 9/12/05 | unknown

Posted on 09/12/2005 3:49:22 PM PDT by pissant

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the 2005 winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a**hole.

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 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.

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 morning and cannot be cast out.

18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: ancientpost; doasearch; mensa; mensapissant; wapo
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To: ctlpdad

Hey you stopped in. Nice to see you are still out there.


101 posted on 09/13/2005 7:23:38 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Thanks!


102 posted on 09/13/2005 7:27:50 AM PDT by ctlpdad (What IS our exit policy in the War on Poverty?)
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To: ctlpdad
You know we miss you when you go on sabbatical.
103 posted on 09/13/2005 7:39:11 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: pissant
But that's why Baskin Robbins makes 31 flavors

True :)
104 posted on 09/13/2005 7:40:41 AM PDT by PaulaB (Don't cut what you can untie....)
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To: pissant
I got good lemonade, ah, dixie cups All flavors and push ups too I’m your ice cream man, baby, stop me when I’m passin’ by

Made me think of a Van Halen song ;)
...have we done this one yet?
if you were an ice cream..what type? Since your the Godfather of these ..I couldn't remember..;)
105 posted on 09/13/2005 7:46:16 AM PDT by PaulaB (Don't cut what you can untie....)
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To: PaulaB

I'm just the licker of the ice cream cone. ;o)


106 posted on 09/13/2005 7:47:08 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Grannyx4; TapTap

Funny words ping.


107 posted on 09/13/2005 9:25:32 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs ("Nuthin' ain't worth nuthin', but it's free.")
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To: Slings and Arrows
Catasstrophy: What you keep to memorialize catching the feline who's been yowling under your window all night.

LOL!! I love it!

108 posted on 09/13/2005 9:45:35 AM PDT by The SISU kid (Politicians are like Slinkies. Good for nothing. But you smile when you push them down the stairs)
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To: The SISU kid

Thanks!


109 posted on 09/13/2005 9:48:01 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Go Sharon! And take Peres with you!)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Hey, I used to resemble that remark! ;)

There's a lot of that going around. ;)

110 posted on 09/13/2005 9:51:10 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Go Sharon! And take Peres with you!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

111 posted on 09/13/2005 9:52:15 AM PDT by The SISU kid (Politicians are like Slinkies. Good for nothing. But you smile when you push them down the stairs)
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To: pissant

You give me my laugh breaks..........I have to see what you are up to.........


112 posted on 09/13/2005 10:17:26 AM PDT by marmar (435 CASF..Ramstien Germany.....Bringing the Wounded Warriors Home....)
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To: marmar

Glad to have ya stop by!!

Especially on a thread about Mensas! ;o)


113 posted on 09/13/2005 10:28:12 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Sooooooooo what exactly are you implying...
114 posted on 09/13/2005 10:35:01 AM PDT by marmar (435 CASF..Ramstien Germany.....Bringing the Wounded Warriors Home....)
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To: marmar

That you are a smarty pants! ;o)


115 posted on 09/13/2005 10:36:41 AM PDT by pissant
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To: marmar
Did you know that mensa as pronounced by in Spanish...
116 posted on 09/13/2005 10:37:31 AM PDT by marmar (435 CASF..Ramstien Germany.....Bringing the Wounded Warriors Home....)
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To: pissant
See prior post.....
117 posted on 09/13/2005 10:39:19 AM PDT by marmar (435 CASF..Ramstien Germany.....Bringing the Wounded Warriors Home....)
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To: PoorMuttly
Hmmmmmm...I see

I have one for you

Bomaskadious: the bold art of creating a persona as a mask

118 posted on 09/13/2005 1:28:19 PM PDT by apackof2 (Never underestimate the power of a fuzzy friend!)
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To: pissant
A thread about menses? Pissy!

Dang.

Just dang.

119 posted on 09/13/2005 2:15:22 PM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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To: Clemenza
Kinda disappointing, as I have met some hotties at Mensa meetings, although it remains a heavily male environment.

Most Log Cabin Republicans are.

120 posted on 09/13/2005 2:25:26 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect, humble of course and obviously incapable of discrimination.)
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