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Mensa Invitational: Words we can use!

Thu Apr 14, 2005 at 10:17:23 AM PDT

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.

More choice ones below the fold.  Check especially number 18--so relevant!  Enjoy, and please feel free to add your own!
  1. 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.

  2. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

  3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

  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, which gets into your bedroom 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.

And the pick of the literature:

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

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