The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supplying a new definition.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration: The act of buying a house, rendering the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts only until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone: 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 up.
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. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. 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.
12. Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit: The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug: Satan, in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot
be cast out.
Tuesday, January 19
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2 comments:
From the Empress of The Style Invitational:
Those neologisms are definitely funny, but that contest was actually one from 1998, and some of the words weren’t really from The Washington Post's Style Invitational contest -- for example, "decafalon" isn't a one-letter change from "decathlon," is it?
Much better to see the real thing -- every week at www.washingtonpost.com/styleinvitational . The Style Invitational is a weekly humor/wordplay contest with unbelievably clever humor contributed by thousands of readers. It's published every Saturday in The Post's Style (features) section, and online every Friday afternoon at about 3:30 Eastern time.
This week's results (Jan. 23, 2010) were for a contest to write your own homonym or homophone -- a new word that is pronounced just like an existing word -- and define it.
Some of this week's winners (from Week 849):
Ho-maid: The role of a traditional wife. (Judy Blanchard, Novi, Mich.)
Hi-deaf TV: Commercials. (Steve Offutt, Arlington, Va.)
S-Cargo: Snail Mail. (Don Hauptman, New York)
See dozens of others just like these at washingtonpost.com/style invitational (click on Week 853, or the top contest on the list for the current week's contest). I hope you become regular readers and perhaps even regular contestants.
Best, The Empress of The Style Invitational
Thank you very much, Pat/Empress! Yeah, It took me awhile to get back around here again. Better alte than never. AS you can see, I've added The Style Invitational to the sidebar, under "Links".
Thanks again!
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