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Invitational Winners

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 this year's (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 asshole.


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.