The Washington Post's
'Style' Invitational
Once again the Washington Post 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:
-
Intaxicaton: 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 (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.
- Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the
purpose of getting laid.
- Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders
the project 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 (n.): 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 (n.): The frantic dance performed
just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
- Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that
gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
- Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half
a grub in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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