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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: pissant

I actually got a Mensa desk calendar for Xmas last year, with daily puzzles much in the same vein.


41 posted on 09/12/2005 5:51:41 PM PDT by mikrofon (Not a Mensa member, but did stay at a Holiday Inn somewhere.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

I posted yer e-mail PING!


42 posted on 09/12/2005 6:06:37 PM PDT by pissant
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To: The SISU kid
Elevacceleration - repeatedly pushing the button to make the elevator arrive faster.

(ok, ok I admit it, it's a sniglet!)

43 posted on 09/12/2005 6:16:37 PM PDT by Coastie ("You have to go out. You don't have to come back"- Old USCG motto.)
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To: The SISU kid; pissant
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness

I have a list of people on my page that have this ;)
44 posted on 09/12/2005 6:23:58 PM PDT by PaulaB (Don't cut what you can untie....)
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To: PaulaB

I just saw your profile page. Very nice. Good thing ya have your burly husband pictured, or the freeper-dudes would be chasing after ya!


45 posted on 09/12/2005 6:38:33 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Zacs Mom; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl; ...

need to know ping


46 posted on 09/12/2005 6:43:32 PM PDT by bitt ('But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.' Michael Yon)
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To: pissant

LOL !


47 posted on 09/12/2005 6:49:52 PM PDT by Enterprise (When Rats govern they screw up and people die. Then, the Rats want to punch the President.)
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To: pissant
Well thanks...

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48 posted on 09/12/2005 6:50:55 PM PDT by PaulaB (Don't cut what you can untie....)
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To: PaulaB

Lovely gams ya have. LOL


49 posted on 09/12/2005 6:57:51 PM PDT by pissant
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To: ctlpdad

I don't get what you mean?


50 posted on 09/12/2005 7:00:30 PM PDT by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: martin_fierro

Geez, no wonder I didn't know about that. It had only one response to the thread!


51 posted on 09/12/2005 7:09:04 PM PDT by pissant
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To: PoorMuttly
Puposterous: When Muttly denies knowing anything about the pic-a-nic basket.

Ok Mr.PoorMuttly I know I am in this category (1 Cor. 1:27) but I am not quite getting the "hidden" meaning of you new word.
Could you look up from your bench for a moment to explain?

52 posted on 09/12/2005 8:06:15 PM PDT by apackof2 (Never underestimate the power of a fuzzy friend!)
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To: bitt

Thanks for the ping!


53 posted on 09/12/2005 8:20:23 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: bitt

Very cute, I tried thinking of something but gave up.


54 posted on 09/12/2005 8:27:44 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: apackof2; Squantos

PUP.

I'm a typing puppy, you know.

Hey, perhaps you didn't!

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

People (and some crustaceans, and a couple of fish) here know about it, but they write to me like I'm a regular person. This has set me free. Well, as free as I get, not being allowed out of the back yard anymore.

All things considered...it's really better this way.

I am not allowed to possess cash, checks, money orders, letters of credit, stamps, negotiable securities....as part of my Release Agreement from the Institute for Incorrigible Cartoon Characters.

Now that I have mended my ways, I am allowed to run around here and (almost) make any mess I want, because it seems to cut down on the amount of holes that somehow get dug in the back yard Muttly Compound, especially near the birdbath...an Official NO-Muttly Zone.

Jim Robinson doesn't seem to mind my presence, and has even added my Official Personal Signature paw-print (minus the mud) in the upper right-hand corner of everyone's screen, for which I am very flattered, and grateful. I clicked on it once, but it made a noise, so I ran away. I look at it from a distance though, all the time....and gloat.


55 posted on 09/12/2005 9:00:26 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun -T.Jefferson)
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To: Gondring

Yeah, they had rather be shopping, or gettng their nails done!!


56 posted on 09/12/2005 9:13:29 PM PDT by Rca2000 ( "What? No gravy? (POW!!) "Next time, remember the gravy!!!"(From "Chow Hound",1951.))
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To: PoorMuttly

Oh...and I like to eat. My Indian name means "Dog who denies stealing the deer-chops." So, "the pic-a-nic basket (and the Birdbath, BTW) was like that when I got there."

I am working on a revolutionary new technique of eating while scratching, eating while sleeping, and eating while eating.

The first one was easy (almost).


57 posted on 09/12/2005 9:20:48 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun -T.Jefferson)
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To: pissant

"Leave the gun, take the cannolis"


58 posted on 09/12/2005 9:42:12 PM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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To: PoorMuttly

Paw Print ??!?!?


59 posted on 09/12/2005 10:18:41 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: pissant

Thanks!


60 posted on 09/12/2005 10:21:34 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Go Sharon! And take Peres with you!)
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