Mensa Invitational
Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which 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 the 2005 winners:
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
realise 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 gruelling 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 colour you turn after finding half a worm in
the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its
yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings
for common words.
And the winners are:
1 coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs.
2 flabbergasted, adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has
gained.
3 abdicate, v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4 esplanade, v. to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5 willy-nilly, adj. impotent.
6 negligent, adj. absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a
nightgown.
7 lymph, v. to walk with a lisp.
8 gargoyle, n. olive-flavored mouthwash.
9 flatulence, n. emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been
run over by a steamroller.
10 balderdash, n. a rapidly receding hairline.
11 testicle, n. a humorous question on an exam.
12 rectitude, n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted by
proctologists.
13 pokemon, n. a Rastafarian proctologist.
14 oyster, n. a person who sprinkles his conversation with
Yiddishisms.
15 Frisbeetarianism, n. the belief that, after death, the soul flies up
onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16 circumvent, n. an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
Jewish men.
