Subject: Mensa's Artificial Word List 2008 -- Ingenious

[John]

Subject: Mensa's Artificial Word List 2008 -- Ingenious

 

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. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial

word with only one letter altered to form a real word. Some are

terrifically innovative:

 

 

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. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject

financially impotent for an indefinite period.

 

 

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

 

 

6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person

who doesn't get it.

 

 

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

 

 

8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

 

 

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

 

 

10. 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.

 

 

11. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day

consuming only things that are good for you.

 

 

12. Glibido: All talk and no action.

 

 

13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when

they come at you rapidly.

 

 

14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've

a ccidentally walked through a spider web.

 

 

15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your

bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

 

 

16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the

fruit you're eating.

 

 

And

 

 

The #1 pick:

 

 

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

[Guest [iLL] Andawg]

I didn't get it. lol

[Guest Corruptor310]

some of those are pretty good.

 

most "mensa" claiming folks i have met - seemed too retarded to have that good of a sense of humor.

[Guest deltron0]

i refuse to believe mensa members are really geniuses because you have to pay a yearly due, and youd have to be an idiot to do that!

[Guest Corruptor310]

But they get these wonderful benefits!!!

 

http://www.mensa.org/index0.php?page=11

 

I think I can still buy a "Mensa Member" bumper sticker at my local head shop!