From: L' Ermit (lhermit@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 11:16:12 MST
Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks 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 2001 winners: some of them
are brilliant.
[Some of them might have been invented to describe people or goings-on
around here. As the parrot has a headcold after waking up and seeing two
feet of wet white guano outside, you will have to read them for yourself.
Regards
Hermit]
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[b]Intaxication:[/b] Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.
[b]Reintarnation:[/b] Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
[b]Foreploy:[/b] Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.
[b]Giraffiti:[/b] Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
[b]Sarchasm:[/b] The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it.
[b]Inoculatte:[/b] To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
[b]Hipatitis:[/b] Terminal coolness.
[b]Osteopornosis:[/b] A degenerate disease. (this one got extra credit)
[b]Karmageddon:[/b] 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.
[b]Glibido:[/b] All talk and no action.
[b]Dopeler Effect:[/b] The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.
[b]And, the pick of the literature:
[b]Ignoranus:[/b] A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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