<div>Hey Deep and Social - </div> <div>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 (<A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/index.htm">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/index.htm</A>), and looks to have never returned:</div> <div> </div> <div>Here's a posting about it:</div> <div><A href="http://www.takeourword.com/TOW201/page5.html">http://www.takeourword.com/TOW201/page5.html</A></div> <div> </div> <div>Here's the original weekly contest:</div> <div><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/invit980802.htm">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/invit980802.htm</A></div> <div>scroll down to the previous week #278 report</div> <div> </div> <div>it'd be nice if
happened annually because the words are great!<BR>G</div> <div><BR><B><I>Amandeep Jawa <deep@worker-bee.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">This is so fantastic I can hardly believe it. Thanks Cath Cath!<BR><BR>----------------------------<BR>From: "Catherine Tullner"<BR>Date: March 25, 2006 12:27:11 AM PST<BR>Subject: Mensa 2005 Winners<BR><BR>Mensa Invitational<BR><BR>The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to <BR>take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or <BR>changing one letter, and supply a new definition.<BR><BR>Here are this year's 2005 winners:<BR><BR>1. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.<BR><BR>2. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts <BR>until you realize it was your money to start with.<BR><BR>3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops <BR>bright ideas from
penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows <BR>little sign of breaking down in the near future.<BR><BR>4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.<BR><BR>5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the <BR>person who doesn't get it.<BR><BR>6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.<BR><BR>7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.<BR><BR>8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)<BR><BR>9. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these <BR>really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's <BR>like, a serious bummer.<BR><BR>10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day <BR>consuming only things that are good for you.<BR><BR>11. Glibido: All talk and no action.<BR><BR>12. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter, <BR>when they come at you rapidly.<BR><BR>13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
<BR>you've accidentally walked through a spider web.<BR><BR>14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into <BR>yourbedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.<BR><BR>15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm <BR>in the fruit you're eating.<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>Also ... Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning <BR>submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to <BR>supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:<BR><BR>1. Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.<BR><BR>2. Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled over how much weight you have gained.<BR><BR>3. Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.<BR><BR>4. Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.<BR><BR>5. Willy-nilly (adj.) impotent.<BR><BR>6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent- <BR>mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.<BR><BR>7. Lymph (v.) to walk with
a lisp.<BR><BR>8. Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.<BR><BR>9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you <BR>are run over by a steamroller.<BR><BR>10. Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.<BR><BR>11. Testicle (n.) a humorous question on an exam.<BR><BR>12. Rectitude (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by <BR>proctologists.<BR><BR>13. Pokemon (n) a Rastafarian proctologist.<BR><BR>14. Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with <BR>Yiddishisms.<BR><BR>15. Frisbeetarianism (n.) [back by popular demand]: The belief <BR>that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck <BR>there.<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------<BR>Amandeep Jawa<BR>----------------------------------<BR>deep@worker-bee.com<BR>937 Valencia St.<BR>San Francisco, CA 94110-2320<BR><BR>Home: 415 255 6257 (ALL MALP)<BR><BR>personal: http://www.deeptrouble.com<BR>political:
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