New terms from the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

[lavagal]

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 {2005} winner:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

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.


14. Glibido: All talk and no action.


15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.


16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into
your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.


18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in
the fruit you're eating

[Miulang]

Thanks, Lavagal! You just help me exceed my daily giggle quotient! :)

Miulang

[Fondoo2]

Great Find!! May a thousand flies fall dead from your camel /bows

[Langi]

Bring it ON! this is amazingly witting. Thanks for sharing the brain & funny bone tickler (brainy bone tickler?) Now i'm stretching it, but true appreciation for those with the gift! :)

[waioli kai]

:take
any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing
one letter, and supply a new definition.

some such words whose definitions are in the process of being formulated where they not otherwise apparent:

militarUSts

militarUSt$

corporatUSt$

corporatUSts

justUSt$

justUS

capitalUSts

capitalUS

capitaloUSness

capitalUSnest$

and listening to the moany groany poetic political correctumness non-sense of New Haven Connecticut (insurance (insurUSnest$) corporations' capital's senator Joseph Lieberman on pbs's News Hour at the moment only leads to more such terms of USness, USnest$, USnests, .... individual letters can be assumed to have some distinct definition too?

[Langi]

Whoa! That last set went over my head. & tho' that's not hard to do, i was hoping for more entertaining ones like the first set. i get the gyst of it though. Good effort! Gotta give you that! :D

[waioli kai]

Whoa! That last set went over my head. & tho' that's not hard to do, i was hoping for more entertaining ones like the first set. i get the gyst of it though. :D

Looking without success for previous years' terms in Washington Post Mensa Invitational, I came across other such terms of the entertaining variety:

Fecetious (adj.): Characterized by being full of ---t.

Ebyss (noun): a vast pit where errant emails sent through Web Sites go, never to be replied to on-line.

The terms I posted to which you refer (their not (yet) being followed by a written definition) are not meant to be entertaining as much as they are meant to be provocative second to their first being more aptly descriptive of general terms that over the years have lost their descriptive value when used to describe something about the United States. Taking the liberty to put off giving them a written defition at this time, I will instead re-introduce more such terms:

demockery

democrUSy

hypocrUSy

congrUS$

imperialUSt$

freedumb

bUSh$'

bankruptUS $ea

gluttonoUS

In the context I use, making a distinction between what is US and what is U.S., the U.S., the United States, is important. The vast majority of the United States is not of US, though US rules over the United States (including the U.S. Military) with virtually no exception, with effectively no opposition. To be of US is not necessarily to be of the U.S., as exemplified by the British and even to a large extent by Saudi, Kuwaiti, Japanese roles and shares in Corporate America.