Franklin Cacciutto
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:01 am
Post subject: Mensa Invitational |
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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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John Dean
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:22 pm
Post subject: Re: Mensa Invitational |
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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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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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