Posted by carkitter
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.
Enjoy!!
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. 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.
4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness
9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10. 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.
11. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
12. Glibido: All talk and no action.
13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
14. Arachnoleptic fit (n): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. (and see one!)
15.Beelzebug (n.): The form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
From... the Briefing Room, Investigate Magazines breaking news forum.
Posted by clank
Some of these are downright brilliant!!
Posted by bosbik
now i know what geniuses are thinking about...
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Posted by whizkidd
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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. |
This term was used by me here on Esato more than an year ago in My own Garbage thread.. here.. http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=82319&start=60
And I would like to clarify that a Beezlebug is nothing but Satan in the form of a mosquito...unlike whats said above..
Posted by Johnex
Yeah, wizz also used some very complex words in my flaming gallore thread.
Posted by carkitter
I actually hadn't heard of that word before, but here's an example of it being used in 2003...
My personal favourite is this one:
6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.