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Title: Washington Post's Mensa Invitational
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(Date Posted:10/14/2008 18:51:02)

 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 the winners:

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

 3.  Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
 realize it  was 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 from penetrating. The bozone  layer, unfortunately, shows little
 sign of  breaking down in the near  future.

 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. Osteopornosis: A degenerate  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.

 The Washington Post has also published the winning  submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply  alternate meanings for
 common words. And the winners are:

 1. Coffee, n. The person upon  whom one coughs.

 2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled  by discovering how much weight one has gained.

 3. Abdicate, v. To give up all  hope of ever having a flat stomach.

 4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an  explanation while drunk.

 5. Willy-nilly, adj.  Impotent.

 6.  Negligent , adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

 7.  Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

 8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

 9.  Flatulence, n . Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been  run over by  a steamroller.

 10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

 11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

 12. Rectitude, n. The formal,  dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

 13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

 14.  Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with yiddishisms.

 15.  Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck  there.

 16.  Circumvent.  An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

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-Brax

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