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 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 stop 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.
And the pick of the literature:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an @sshole.
Mensa Invitational
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buffettbride
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How did they get that from T-R-O-Y?SMLCHNG wrote:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an @sshole.
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buffettbride wrote:How did they get that from T-R-O-Y?SMLCHNG wrote:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an @sshole.
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HEY..buffettbride wrote:How did they get that from T-R-O-Y?SMLCHNG wrote:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an @sshole.
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buffettbride wrote:How did they get that from T-R-O-Y?SMLCHNG wrote:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an @sshole.
Wrinkles only go where smiles have been....
Sorry, John.. I have no idea.. it was just an email sent to me by a friend. And I saw that this was last years list.