posted
The Washington Post's Style Invitational 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 some recent 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.
Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
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.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
And, the pick of the literature:
Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an ahole.
Just wondering if any of you wonderfully inventive Hatrackers could come up with anymore.
posted
inscrotable --impossible to knee ramanesque --anything an undergrad would eat ramantic --cheap attempts at romance ambuguous --vauge references to bugs exatic --strange stuff from your attic glumorous --moody celebs sicrifice --when an editor refuses to change a quote, no matter what
Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003
| IP: Logged |
Obscone: a naughty pastry. Becoma: initiating torpor. Boyou: men from the marsh. Increament: one unit of coffee whitener. Narecosis: Unconsciousness caused by hairloss.
Thanks for the Fluff! (It's a good fluff.) Posts: 2506 | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
I knew I could count on you guys to find more. Keep 'em coming.
Here's a few
Cro-Mignon: A really nice Prehistoric Steak
Science Faction:A splinter group of renegade Sci-Fi readers
and finally.... (I couldn't resist)
Hatcrack:The insidiously addictive drug that causes me to check this site daily for new and interesting posts.
Posts: 172 | Registered: Jun 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
Alphanumenic: The relationship between words and the male species.
So basically, a man, poor of words, may use foreploy to better his chances with the female species. She however, may associate this with alphanumenic glibido. He may be considered a reintarnated ignoranus in which she decides to kick him between the legs. His quick reflexes may permit intestenal fortitude, but his life could then deteriorate into a viscious circle of osteopornosis with frequents acts of cornication.
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[The Wave]](graemlins/thewave.gif)
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
