This showed up in my e-mail today. Thanks Jim, good stuff here.
The Washington Post’s Style 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 2003 winners:
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Bozone: 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.
Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Cashtration: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
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.
Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Arachnoleptic fit: The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
Caterpallor: The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
And the pick of the literature…
Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Jim Edwards adds this Comment:
Frockulation: v. getting a promotion, not only without recieving an increase in pay, but also by recieving this “promotion” being totally screwed over in every way
December 21st, 2003 at 8:49 pm
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More Funny Word Winners
It hasn’t been a year since the last batch, but this showed up in my e-mail today (thanks Jim) and it’s good stuff:
Once again, The Washington Post published its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for variou…
April 22nd, 2004 at 12:11 pm
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Winners of the Washington Post Style Invitational
I got this in an email (thanks, Bob), and found it on alexking.org. The Washington Post Style Invitational asked readers to take a word from the dictionary and create a new word by adding or subtracting a letter. Here’s a
January 6th, 2005 at 9:44 am
Danielle adds this Comment:
I’m German and I don’t get the “Bozone”. Can you explain it to me? Thanks! Danielle
May 5th, 2005 at 12:20 am
Aericus adds this Comment:
Danielle,
The Ozone layer (O3) is the part of the atmosphere that keeps most harmful radiation out.
“Bozo” is slang for an idiot.
August 24th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
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July 16th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Niranjani adds this Comment:
Thanks for the laughs, and inspiration. Here’re some more by me:
Bouncing – bowing and singing simultaneously
Trampoline – a clothesline used by tramps
Colony – unbearable pain in the intestines
February 12th, 2008 at 3:39 am
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