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Franklin Cacciutto
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:06 am
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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 of 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.
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.
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TakenEvent
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:06 am
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"Franklin Cacciutto" <shadtree@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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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 of 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.
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.
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Too true.
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4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
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Brilliant!
Roger Miller wrote a hillbilly song called "Reincarnation." Amazingly, this
is the second time in ten minutes I've been able to post to AUE about it.
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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.
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Blue Hornet
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:06 am
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TakenEvent wrote:
| Quote: | "Franklin Cacciutto" <shadtree@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:shadtree-5D31B3.21222607112005@optonline.svc.highwinds-media.com...
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 this
year's {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 asshole.
3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.
Too true.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Brilliant!
Roger Miller wrote a hillbilly song called "Reincarnation." Amazingly, this
is the second time in ten minutes I've been able to post to AUE about it.
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.
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some of mine:
Fleezing - running for your life, in the cold
African Violent - how government blossoms on that continent
Photographt - using a fake ID to cash bad checks
Electrocity - using energy for war crimes and other evil purposes
eVile - porn peddled on the Internet
Governmend - trying to fix everything through politics
Republicant - "small government" hypocrisy
Democrant - screaming about "unfairness" and "social justice"
Presiden - the Oval Office on weekends
Texass - where the president came out of
Bozom - a substance to make men goofy; the more, the goofier
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:12 pm
Post subject: Re: Mensa Invitational |
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Franklin Cacciutto filted:
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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 of one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this
year's {2005} winners:
13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
consuming only things that are good for you.
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This one doesn't satisfy the entry criteria....r |
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Bertel Lund Hansen
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:22 pm
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Franklin Cacciutto skrev:
| Quote: | The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational [...]
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Thanks for a good laugh.
| Quote: | 4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
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Would someone please explain this one? I have a notion about what
a hillbilly is.
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Bertel
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Nate Branscom
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:41 pm
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Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
| Quote: | Would someone please explain this one? I have a notion about what
a hillbilly is.
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Think of the stereotypical rural American. The bumbling, toothless,
barefoot, inbred, banjo-playing idiots that use backseats from cars as
couches on their dilapidated front porches and bathe on occasional
basis. If you've ever seen the cartoon "The Simpsons", there is a
character named Cletus who is the epitome of a hillbilly. Google for
"simpsons cletus" and you'll see what I am trying to describe in words
(which is really hard; it's more of a visual thing".
-- Nate |
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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:09 pm
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:22:17 +0100, Bertel Lund Hansen
<nospamfilius@lundhansen.dk> wrote:
| Quote: | Franklin Cacciutto skrev:
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational [...]
Thanks for a good laugh.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Would someone please explain this one? I have a notion about what
a hillbilly is.
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"Tarnation!" is a euphemism for "damnation" which is commonly used in comics and
films to signal "hillbilly" speech.
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Jim
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Nate Branscom
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:21 pm
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Jim Lawton wrote:
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"Tarnation!" is a euphemism for "damnation" which is commonly used in comics and
films to signal "hillbilly" speech.
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Jim
the polymoth
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I totally forgot to add that to my post. What in the tarnations am I
thinking?
-- Nate |
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JF
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:34 pm
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X-No-Archive: yes
In message <1131446509.817034.78810@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Nate
Branscom <the_n8ball@hotmail.com> writes
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Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Would someone please explain this one? I have a notion about what
a hillbilly is.
Think of the stereotypical rural American.
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Just think of a hillbilly virgin as a girl who can run faster than her
brothers. Says it all.
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James Follett |
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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:11 pm
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On 8 Nov 2005 03:21:35 -0800, "Nate Branscom" <the_n8ball@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Jim Lawton wrote:
"Tarnation!" is a euphemism for "damnation" which is commonly used in comics and
films to signal "hillbilly" speech.
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Jim
the polymoth
I totally forgot to add that to my post. What in the tarnations am I
thinking?
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Hang on a darn tootin' - "in [the] tarnation[s]" - are you fluent in Hillbilly,
and if so, is that right? I would have said "What in tarnation" - but then the
hillbillies we get in the Pennines are of a different sort.
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Jim
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Bertel Lund Hansen
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:46 pm
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Jim Lawton skrev:
| Quote: | "Tarnation!" is a euphemism for "damnation" which is commonly
used in comics and films to signal "hillbilly" speech.
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Thanks. That did the trick.
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Bertel
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John Dean
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:37 pm
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Franklin Cacciutto wrote:
| Quote: | 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 this
year's {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 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.
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As I remarked in aeu (BTW, I tend to deprecate cross-posting but for
this kind of thing, why would you not?):
You using a time machine? Or is the Post?
I first saw "reintarnation" some time ago.
http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_reintarnation.htm says it appeared in
the Post in 2001 although
http://www.ijmc.com/archives/1999/November/25November1999.html claims it
for 1999.
"sarchasm" has also been around a while and
http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_sarchasm.htm claims that word also for
the Post's 2001 competition.
In fact, a little Googling shows the words in your list to have been
around for some time. If the Post have been giving prizes for them this
year they've been robbed (and they're paying their researchers WAY too
much).
The Post's Style Invitational Archives are here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032501843.html
A search on-site for "reintarnation" yields zip. So does a search for
"mensa".
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John Dean
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Armond Perretta
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:17 am
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Nate Branscom wrote:
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Think of the stereotypical rural American. The bumbling, toothless,
barefoot, inbred, banjo-playing idiots that use backseats from cars as
couches on their dilapidated front porches and bathe on occasional
basis. If you've ever seen the cartoon "The Simpsons", there is a
character named Cletus who is the epitome of a hillbilly. Google for
"simpsons cletus" and you'll see what I am trying to describe in words
(which is really hard; it's more of a visual thing".
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Upon encountering your first sentence, I was forced to conclude that you
have actually avoided the act of thinking while composing your response.
There is, as far as I can determine, no "stereotypical rural American."
There are hillbillies, yokels, rednecks, Missourians, etc., but these
classes are not _necessarily_ associated with rural America as we understand
"rural."
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Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare |
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:28 am
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John Dean wrote:
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Franklin Cacciutto wrote:
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 this
year's {2005} winners:
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[ ... ]
The Post has been running the Style Invitational, off and on, for more
than a decade. It is not called the "Mensa Invitational," and indeed
I have never encountered that term before. Could we have detected a
copyright violation?
This particular competition is run roughly once a year. It's quite
popular, and lists from the various annual editions tend to circle the
Web for years after publication. This seems to be another one,
although (as someone pointed out; sorry, I forget who) there's at
least one entry on the list that violates the rules. (Yes, I snipped
it. Trust me.)
| Quote: | "sarchasm" has also been around a while and
http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_sarchasm.htm claims that word also for
the Post's 2001 competition.
In fact, a little Googling shows the words in your list to have been
around for some time. If the Post have been giving prizes for them this
year they've been robbed (and they're paying their researchers WAY too
much).
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I blame Mensa.
Stir well and serve.
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Bob Lieblich
Erstwhile Style Invitational honorable mention (three bumper stickers
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Nate Branscom
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:12 am
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Armond Perretta wrote:
| Quote: | Nate Branscom wrote:
Think of the stereotypical rural American. The bumbling, toothless,
barefoot, inbred, banjo-playing idiots that use backseats from cars as
couches on their dilapidated front porches and bathe on occasional
basis. If you've ever seen the cartoon "The Simpsons", there is a
character named Cletus who is the epitome of a hillbilly. Google for
"simpsons cletus" and you'll see what I am trying to describe in words
(which is really hard; it's more of a visual thing".
Upon encountering your first sentence, I was forced to conclude that you
have actually avoided the act of thinking while composing your response.
There is, as far as I can determine, no "stereotypical rural American."
There are hillbillies, yokels, rednecks, Missourians, etc., but these
classes are not _necessarily_ associated with rural America as we understand
"rural."
I suppose I'm just a dumb redneck from Missouri, then. |
-- Nate |
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