SOCIAL: This is HYSTERICAL and a bit of spam

Sun Mar 26 11:54:21 PST 2006

Hey Deep and Social - 
  I have actually seen this list a couple times, so I went looking for info about it on the net...turns out was a single weekly "style invitational" contest that used to be part of the Washinton Post's Style Column, that went on hiatus in 1999 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/index.htm), and looks to have never returned:

  Here's a posting about it:
  http://www.takeourword.com/TOW201/page5.html

  Here's the original weekly contest:
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/invit980802.htm
  scroll down to the previous week #278 report

  it'd be nice if happened annually because the words are great!
G

Amandeep Jawa <deep at worker-bee.com> wrote:
  This is so fantastic I can hardly believe it. Thanks Cath Cath!

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From: "Catherine Tullner"
Date: March 25, 2006 12:27:11 AM PST
Subject: Mensa 2005 Winners

Mensa Invitational

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 2005 winners:

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

2. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts 
until you realize it was your money to start with.

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. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the 
person who doesn't get it.

6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

9. 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.

10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day 
consuming only things that are good for you.

11. Glibido: All talk and no action.

12. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter, 
when they come at you rapidly.

13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after 
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into 
yourbedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm 
in the fruit you're eating.

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Also ... Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning 
submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to 
supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.) impotent.

6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent- 
mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you 
are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.) a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by 
proctologists.

13. Pokemon (n) a Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with 
Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.) [back by popular demand]: The belief 
that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck 
there.

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