GodPossessed
05-07-2008, 11:28 PM
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:
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 a re 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 gruelling 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.
15. **Beelzebug** (n.): Satan in 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.
And the #1 pick:
17. **Ignoranus**: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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:
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 a re 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 gruelling 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.
15. **Beelzebug** (n.): Satan in 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.
And the #1 pick:
17. **Ignoranus**: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.