Ok, it\’s getting entirely too intense here today.
Let me break things up (and maybe break you up in the process) by posting the following, which comes to us from our pal Relo Myra. (Incidentally, entry #2 is, in fact, a term I personally came up with – not saying I was the first, only that I did so without hearing it from someone else – and have used here and there in this blog.)
Enjoy:
TheWashington Post\’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers totake any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting,or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Hereare the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.):The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financiallyimpotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus:A person who\’s both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton:Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize itwas your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation:Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n.):The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas frompenetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign ofbreaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy:Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of gettinglaid
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-paintedvery, very high.
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between theauthor of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn\’t getit.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenouslywhen you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis: Adegenerate disease.
(This one got extracredit.)11. Karmageddon: It\’s like, wheneverybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then,like, the Earth explodes and it\’s like, a seriousbummer.
12. Decafalon (n): The grueling eventof getting through the day consuming only things that are good foryou.
13. Glibido: All talk and noaction.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency ofstupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at yourapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.):The frantic dance performed just after you\’ve accidentally walkedthrough a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.):Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at threein the morning and
cannot be castout.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The coloryou turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you\’re eating.
Ok, now back to politics, where ignoranuses so often expose their glibidos by shooting out the dopeler effect….
