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 the latest 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. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. 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.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into
your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in
the fruit you're eating.
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an axxhole.

Originally posted by xs
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 the latest winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Comin ...[text shortened]... worm in
the fruit you're eating.
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an axxhole.

There's a show on Radio 4 called "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue" billed as the antidote to panel games. One of the rounds requires the contestants to do a similair thing, only there is no rule about adding only one word.
A couple of my favourites came from Jack Dee:

Heathrow: A brief description of what a baggage handler does.
Luton Airport: A slightly more detailed description of what a baggage handler does.

Originally posted by jimmyb270
There's a show on Radio 4 called "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue" billed as the antidote to panel games. One of the rounds requires the contestants to do a similair thing, only there is no rule about adding only one word.
A couple of my favourites came from Jack Dee:

Heathrow: A brief description of what a baggage handler does.
Luton Airport: A slightly more detailed description of what a baggage handler does.

Some of my own in varying degrees of worth:

Essociation - the hostile takeover of a smaller company by a multi national oil group

Enterprose - quality shown by a budding poet to get up off his butt and make something of his life

Mistoken - The incorrect assumption that you may smoke all of the joint and not pass it around

Divanity - The pride taken when god looks in the mirror each morning

and one for the here and now 🙂

Mooderation - The tendency to delete a forum post dependant on how bad a day you've had 😛

Originally posted by Starrman
Some of my own in varying degrees of worth:

[b]Essociation - the hostile takeover of a smaller company by a multi national oil group

Enterprose - quality shown by a budding poet to get up off his butt and make something of his life

Mistoken - The incorrect assumption that you may smoke all of the joint and not pass it around

[b ...[text shortened]... ]Mooderation[/b] - The tendency to delete a forum post dependant on how bad a day you've had 😛[/b]

When Canada switched to the metric system, some wag wrote an article on it titled To Mock A Kilogram.
Sorry, doesn't really go with the thread.😳

Drinking Mame: Requiring 7 or more stitches after an inadvisable bar room contest.