Apparently, the Washington Post periodically runs a contest where they ask readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supplying a new definition. Here are some past winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
2. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
3. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
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. Uno: What you insert, you know, while, you know, you are deciding what you will say next, you know.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10 Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is, like, 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 not action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at your rapidly.
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.
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
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