Apparently, Mensa International sponsors a contest each year that involves changing a dictionary word by adding, ommitting, or changing a letter, and then giving it a new definition. I got this list of 2005 winners from a friend, so I don't know their original publication [Perhaps the Washington Post?]. They are, however, quite amusing.
Here are this year's {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 ass.
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 becoming physically intimate.
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.
Mensa's Word Contest
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Mensa's Word Contest
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
-Carl Sagan
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
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-Gandhi
-Carl Sagan
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win!
-Gandhi
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It is, indeed, an excellent word. ^_^
Let me think...
20. Corgitate- To have one's thoughts run around in circles and nip at one's ankles like a small, shrilly yapping dog.
Let me think...
20. Corgitate- To have one's thoughts run around in circles and nip at one's ankles like a small, shrilly yapping dog.
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
-Carl Sagan
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win!
-Gandhi
-Carl Sagan
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win!
-Gandhi
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Thank you very much, Henri!Pas mal, mbx_pdx ; I see you're going to enjoy the Agora (and we your contributions) !...
Henri
21. Graftitude- [n.] Thankfulness for any addition onto an original entity or idea.
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
-Carl Sagan
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win!
-Gandhi
-Carl Sagan
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win!
-Gandhi
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