The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to
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:*
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.*
*
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.*
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:*
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.*
*
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.*
