new words for 2005

[timouse]

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 {2005} 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. 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.

[Steve from Cleveland]

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.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day

consuming only things that are good for you.

I'm no Mensa dude, but isn't this a play on the word Decathalon, which is 10 letters. The 'new' word Decafalon is only 9 letters, which is OK, since they're permitted to add, subtract or change ONE letter. Seems to me that they've subtracted one AND THEN changed one on top of it...

I guess smart people (Mensa's) make mistakes, too, huh?

Speaking of Mensa, anyone familiar with the Woody allen piece "The Whore of Mensa,"

a Raymond Chandler pastiche about Private eye Kaiser Lupowitz nosing out a network of educated prostitutes who offer something more exotic than sex; intellect. 'For a hundred, a girl will would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack. For one fifty, you could listen to FM radio with twins. For three bills you got the works; a thin Jewish brunette would pretend to pick you up at the museum of modern art, let you read her Master's, get you involved in a screaming quarrel at Elaine's over Freud's conception of women, and then fake a suicide of your choice. The perfect evening, for some guys. Quoted from http://www.hackwriters.com/AnnieHall1.htm

Funny Stuff...

SfC

[peipunk]

twunt

[Booche]

I like cwat better, but to each his own.

[Lazlo]

twunt

Isn't that when the broad has two vaginas, one inside the other?