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Mensa's New Words for 2005 (humor)
e-mail to PA Times | 9/12/05 | unknown

Posted on 09/12/2005 3:49:22 PM PDT by pissant

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the 2005 winners:

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

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a**hole.

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.

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.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: ancientpost; doasearch; mensa; mensapissant; wapo
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I'll add:

Veggie: For women, a wedgie on the opposite side.

1 posted on 09/12/2005 3:49:26 PM PDT by pissant
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To: AnOldCowhand; Allegra; BerthaDee; Conspiracy Guy; Clemenza; cyborg; Dashing Dasher; Deaf Smith; ...
FF (Favorite FReeper) ping...

I'm sure some of you can add to this list...

}^)
2 posted on 09/12/2005 3:53:02 PM PDT by The SISU kid (Politicians are like Slinkies. Good for nothing. But you smile when you push them down the stairs)
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To: pissant

That's tagline material.


3 posted on 09/12/2005 3:53:24 PM PDT by bad company ( Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: The SISU kid
Worst Playboy issue ever: "Women of Mensa."

Kinda disappointing, as I have met some hotties at Mensa meetings, although it remains a heavily male environment.

4 posted on 09/12/2005 3:55:07 PM PDT by Clemenza (What's Puzzling You is Just the Nature of My Game)
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To: The SISU kid; Clemenza

We shoulda figured a guy with a name like Clemenza would have faked his way into Mensa meetings! ;o)


5 posted on 09/12/2005 3:57:59 PM PDT by pissant
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To: bad company

My wife thought of it!


6 posted on 09/12/2005 3:58:21 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Clemenza

I've been to one Mensa meeting since 1982 when I joined .. haven't been back. I hear that Asilomar was "fun" though


7 posted on 09/12/2005 3:58:58 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Proud member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 1972-1973)
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To: bad company
That's tagline material.

Damn straight!

8 posted on 09/12/2005 4:00:42 PM PDT by ctlpdad (Veggie: For women, a wedgie on the opposite side.)
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To: The SISU kid
This is the perfect word for FR: Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9 posted on 09/12/2005 4:03:16 PM PDT by ctlpdad (Veggie: For women, a wedgie on the opposite side.)
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To: pissant
My wife thought of it!

I don't believe it.;-)

10 posted on 09/12/2005 4:06:45 PM PDT by bad company ( Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: The SISU kid

ROFL, this is hilarious!


11 posted on 09/12/2005 4:08:36 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: pissant

LOL bump


12 posted on 09/12/2005 4:13:02 PM PDT by apackof2 (Never underestimate the power of a fuzzy friend!)
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To: pissant

Arachnoleptic fit That was changing more than one letter.


13 posted on 09/12/2005 4:13:15 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Mmmmmmm! Mmmmmmm! Good!)
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To: pissant
Welcome to 2003

< |:)~

14 posted on 09/12/2005 4:16:57 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: pissant

Leave it up to you......


15 posted on 09/12/2005 4:19:31 PM PDT by marmar (435 CASF..Ramstien Germany.....Bringing the Wounded Warriors Home....)
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To: apackof2

pretty funny stuff

Them Mensars are pretty clever folk.


16 posted on 09/12/2005 4:20:10 PM PDT by Shazbot29 (Trolling member of the DU Activist Corps!)
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To: pissant

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a**hole.

Hey, this an anagram of "sour Nagin"! Coincidence?


17 posted on 09/12/2005 4:22:33 PM PDT by Apparatchik
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To: PoorMuttly

Go for it...


18 posted on 09/12/2005 4:28:56 PM PDT by apackof2 (Never underestimate the power of a fuzzy friend!)
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To: pissant
Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a**hole.

I thought that was defined as a Kennedy...?

19 posted on 09/12/2005 4:30:35 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: The SISU kid

LOL!

"Veggie: For women, a wedgie on the opposite side."

[now that just ain't right!]...:))


20 posted on 09/12/2005 4:34:28 PM PDT by Salamander (There's nothing that "MORE COWBELL!" can't fix.......)
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