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 the 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.
3. 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.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit! and the person who doesn’t get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate’s disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. 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.
12.. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. 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.
Categories: Humor
Posted by Marti @ 
i posted this on my website a while back. i have a story to go with arachnoleptic fit too…its on my page, i link to it in my cockroach post called Ewww. (from a few days ago)…i love these word plays.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Ah…I cried. I laughed. I cried some more. And then there was the Ignoranus - which made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt. Thanks for posting these!
August 26th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Please don’t curse me with reintarnation. I’ve already lived that life once!
August 26th, 2006 at 9:55 am
ROTFLMAO
OMG… Those are freaking GREAT!!!!!!!!
August 27th, 2006 at 2:18 am
LOL……and the best was indeed the pick of literature!
Just discovered you and I`m glad I did.
tea
August 27th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Ohhh i should use these words! Honestly, the do make sense!
August 27th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
O.M.G.!!! VERY funny, Marti! Thanks for sharing!
August 27th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
LOL all t he way!!!
August 27th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
[…] Regardless, someone’s somehow found a list of the results. Wherever these came from, they’re pretty good (although I think the list runs out of gas after No. 11): 1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. […]
August 27th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
These are quite clever. I often peer down a sarchasm with my twisted sense of humor
August 28th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Those are really great and I’d try my hand at one of my own but I guess I’m feeling a little dimb.
August 28th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Some of the early ones sound familiar, but the hands down winner in my book is the last one. I know I’m going to be using that one. I’ve already got a few people in my mind about whom I could be talking.
August 29th, 2006 at 6:45 am
lol! gasp, gasp! loved this!
August 29th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Well, yes, but give me terminal coolness every time.
August 29th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Found you through yahoo and a link of a blog’s blog. Love the list. Made me wish I could remember them long enough to repeat them at just the right moment, but not a chance.
August 29th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Sadly, I suffer from #9…
Love, love, love Bozone. lololololol!
Great post. Thanks for my Wednesday morning laugh.
~Michael
August 30th, 2006 at 7:49 am
Hi Marti, these words are hilarious, will have to try to fit some of them into conversations.
August 31st, 2006 at 11:05 pm
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September 12th, 2006 at 6:54 am
Ignoranusly hopping into my hipatitsly kool Karmageddon to crooze thruew the mucky bifurcated policated bozone, gaining speed along boulevardian sarchasms, I flip my Dopeler effected flinger, glibidly flaunting my inbred reintarnation as demoncratically republicantainted superiosity exerts its expressionistic twit delighting the intaxicated discomboobulated.
January 28th, 2007 at 12:53 pm