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The Washington Post's Style 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:

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 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 gruelling 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 grub in the fruit you're eating.

How's about it, guys? Are we ready for a new word game?????
 
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Exclusive website dedicated to old goats.
 
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n. 1.)A person who can fawn over and flatter someone by extrasensory means. 2)A person who can make another believe they are being flattered, without actually speaking or moving.
 
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The feeling you get the first time your hubby vacuums the house for you! Big Grin
 
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is when it's easy to overhear
 
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The person to blame for the collapse of the budget
 
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GERANIMO! - The battle-cry of a plant-loving Apache.

OGLY - so hideous that you can't help staring.

ENOUGHT - not enough, but better than nothing.
 
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Excellent, Arnie. Are those your own? I'm impressed!


Permit me to submit:

Z-bra: Feminine support undergarment with the largest cup sizes produced. Suitable for horses.
 
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musculinity - the condition of an over-developed body-builder

feminidity - the nesting instinct of the female

sylligism - silly pseudo-logic; carrying a good thought too far; reductio ad absurdium

[This message was edited by shufitz on Sat Oct 4th, 2003 at 9:06.]
 
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telephant - n. 1. A person who can fawn over and flatter someone by extrasensory means. 2. A person who can make another believe they are being flattered, without actually speaking or moving.


telepant - a phone-sex operator

inkuisition - a cruel newspaper article that rakes one over the coals

incensitivity - immunity to the smell of burning incense

appewiser - the preferred appetiser
 
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FINANCEE - She's only engaged to him for the money.

SEDUCATION - Lessons in love.

ATTINUDE - Posing naked.
 
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_appewiser_ - the preferred appetiser

Or maybe: "The King of Hors D'oeuvres," thin and fizzy but not particularly suited to the British palate.


(And yes, Shufitz, once again it is I who bring up a beer reference. I figure if I can keep my numbers down to roughly one third of R.E.'s in this regard I'll be doing something.)
 
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Reviving a thread in honour of the date:

VALENTINT

Hair dye for that special date on February 14th.


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Love it, arnie, though I envision someone with pink hair!

I remember an old I Love Lucy where they mixed up "liver" for "lover!"
 
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greeding card -- sent by someone who cares enough to send the very best
 
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WATERCURSE - flooding

VALENTONE - to fill in, with red crayon, the outline of a heart

VALENTIE - to wed on Valentine's Day
 
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oh! oh!

VALENTIKE - a child born to valenined parents upon their wedding-anniversary date.

VIDIOT - one who watches too much television
 
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VALENCETINE - a love letter from a chemist

VALENPINE - love lost on Feb. 14th

VALENKINE - the cows we love...
 
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TELLEVISION - on-air oracle broadcasts her seances for all to see
 
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Radio - When companies lure away talented EOs from other companies.
 
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ST BURNARD

Hot Dog

CATERPALLAR

The colour you turn after finding half a maggot in the uneaten portion of your apple.

CASTERPILLAR

The alternative version of the tale of Lot's wife, who was a sweet woman.


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The Washington Post is running this competition again, with a slight difference: the word must begin with A, B, C or D.

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50357-2005Mar19.html


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Amorican - Don Juan becomes a U.S. citizen
 
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I have to add one that's out of their range but that a work colleague has on a notice on the wall above her desk

Testiculate - to gesture wildly while talking bollocks.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
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Reviving this thresd once again:

NORSEPOWER ~ the rowers in a Viking longship.


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Originally posted by arnie:
Reviving this thresd once again:

NORSEPOWER ~ the rowers in a Viking longship.


Big Grin APPLAUSE!

Arnie, wouldn't this be a fun word game for the wordplay section???

Here's one: BANANOBYTE - unit for measuring chimpanzee memory
 
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logophere - Afraid to write
 
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wouldn't this be a fun word game for the wordplay section???

Possibly, in fact I hope so. However, the number of posts we've received in this thread since Kalleh started it in 2003 doesn't seem to bode too well. I've tried to revive it three times since then, with only moderate success.


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clomputer ~ a crashed hard drive


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take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.


lacktation - out of milk
 
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COMPUTTING ~ playing one of those golf PC games.


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GREENWITCH MEAN TIME - the old hag may be environmentally aware, but that's no excuse for magically making my golf ball vanish when it's my turn to putt.
 
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Moo-Shu - Shufitz at a costume party dressed as a cow.
 
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ragination-- the urge to strangle someone at Microsoft when, yet again, Word reformats your document to what it thinks you want to do.
 
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Imogenation - recalling old Sid Caesar TV shows

(All right, so it's two letters instead of one, shoot me over one lousy letter...)
 
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Derriere - Drive-through for milk shakes
 
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