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  • New terms from the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

    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
    Aloha from Lavagal

  • #2
    Re: New terms from the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

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

    Miulang
    "Americans believe in three freedoms. Freedom of speech; freedom of religion; and the freedom to deny the other two to folks they don`t like.” --Mark Twain

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    • #3
      Re: New terms from the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

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

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      • #4
        Re: New terms from the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

        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!

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        • #5
          political correctumness non-sens?
          :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?

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          • #6
            Re: New terms from the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

            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!

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            • #7
              defining vs entertaining

              Originally posted by 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.
              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.

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