Friday, March 20, 2009

and now it's time for a little levity

yes, count me in as one of the 100,000
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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 winners. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real word. Some are terrifically innovative: ***i'm just including the ones i really liked
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

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.

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heh, you can count me in those jealous of six-year-old!

Very funny. My favourite is sarchasm.

Hotch Potchery said...

Those are funny. I liked giraffiti.

People are clever, but I prefer inventive ways to insult people.

Astarte said...

OMG, is that JOHNNY DEPP?!?!?! *swoon*!!! I swear, that man is a walking orgasm.

These are GREAT!!!! I like reintarnation!!!

drollgirl said...

bah ahahahha!!! love these new words!!!!

cheatymoon said...

Excellent. :-)

Not Your Aunt B said...

I need that. I so needed to laugh today after the day from hell at work. Thanks! And I will be adding those words to my vocabulary.