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roxy ([personal profile] roxy) wrote2005-04-28 05:54 pm

Too Good!

My Beloved Friend sent me this, and I have to share it!
Subject: Mensa Challenge

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 stops
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
your fruit that you are eating.

And the pick of the literature:

17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

[identity profile] justabi.livejournal.com 2005-04-28 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
*cackles*

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Funny, no?

[identity profile] teot.livejournal.com 2005-04-28 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Can we make these into real words please?

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
They're perfect aren't they! *snorf*

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2005-04-28 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
We all have osteopornosis, I think.

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Whooo...God know's I suffer from it...*grin*

[identity profile] katholicgrrl.livejournal.com 2005-04-28 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
these are all great! i can't pick a favorite!! thanks, love!

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Aren't they terrific? *grin*
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[identity profile] capnzebbie.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
These are hilarious! I have to send them to everyone I know. Number 7 reminds of thecaelum. Number 9 reminds me of...um...roxymissrose. *wink*

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Saaaay, waaait a minute...9 is osteopornosis...whaddya tryin' ta say, hanh?

[identity profile] kaydee23.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I like karmageddon, glibido, and ignoranus. I know a bunch of ignoranuses.

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
I know far too many ignoranus' I'm afraid!

[identity profile] anitac588.livejournal.com 2005-04-29 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
LOL, I like that! Especially #15, now I'll shout in the night Beelzebug!