Mensa Vocabulary Additions

[Rock and Glock]

Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which 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 last year's winners:

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

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an _______.

3. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a
worm in the fruit you're eating.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. 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.

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

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and
the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running
late.

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
(This one got extra credit.)

12. 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.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the
day consuming only things that are good for you.

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
when they come at you rapidly.

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just
after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets
into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.


My favorites are 4, 8 and 15

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[P95Carry]

My favorites are 4, 8 and 15

Pretty much mine too but - gotta throw in #6 as well

[Miggy]

I gotta go with 3 & 11.

[retsupt99]

Pretty funny...
I like throwing out some of these (appropriate ones) to my Eng. Hon. class students...some laugh immediately, some have to think a while or have it explained by another student and then laugh, and then there are those who will never know a joke has been told...

[JD]

#12 gave me a good chuckle.

[Bob The Great]

17 is brilliant! I hate those little guys.

[ccw9mm]

My favorites are 4, 8 ...

Got to agree with you, there.

[Rock and Glock]

And who hasn't "done a 16"?

[ppkheat]

My son just bought a new house, I'll bet he's now suffering from "cashtration". I'll have to send them to him.....thanks for posting.

[Andy W.]

When my youngest son was a little tyke, he came up with the word "gription" (grip & traction). I have used it ever since.

[cmidkiff]

:) I think I know a few ignoranus's :)

[Kompact9]

Number 5 explains a lot of people...

[tegemu]

I had a Great Grand Nephew that just could not grasp the concept of Great Grand Uncle. He settled on Gruncle, which I have been ever since.

[ghost tracker]

I don't understand why #4 would be a bad thing.

[joleary223]

When my youngest son was a little tyke, he came up with the word "gription" (grip & traction). I have used it ever since.

Gription is part of my vocabulary too. Unfortuatly with a 12 week old son, so is Cashtration.