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.
I actually got a Mensa desk calendar for Xmas last year, with daily puzzles much in the same vein.
I posted yer e-mail PING!
(ok, ok I admit it, it's a sniglet!)
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!
need to know ping
LOL !
Lovely gams ya have. LOL
I don't get what you mean?
Geez, no wonder I didn't know about that. It had only one response to the thread!
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?
Thanks for the ping!
Very cute, I tried thinking of something but gave up.
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.
Yeah, they had rather be shopping, or gettng their nails done!!
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).
"Leave the gun, take the cannolis"
Paw Print ??!?!?
Thanks!
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