Mensa Invitational 2008

[tawnyfrog]

Mensa list 2008
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.

17. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
16. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
15. 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.
14. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
13. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
12. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
11. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
8. 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.
7. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
6. Glibido: All talk and no action.
5. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
4. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
3. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
2. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
#1 pick: Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an arzole.

[sammys]

I had a beelzebug in my house last nite.

I knew it was no ordinary mosquito!

I also believe this Mensa theory applies to clothing Shants not shorts not pants Shants!!

Sammys

[lorisunshine]

Sammy, I have beelzebugs every night.....
and there are Skorts, neither skirts nor shorts, but skorts!

[SKendall]

That is clever. I had the list from a couple of years ago, no idea where it is now.

[Suzanna]

I love arachnoleptic fit! Done that!!

[Cinders]

These are so funny.

However, I hate the whole "Mensa" thing. What a bunch of "puffed up" people is that?

The "I'm smarter than you and the rest of the world."

Yeah, yada yada yada.

Love,
Cindi

[hippie37]

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

YUP that one's definitely ME!!! I WISH!!!

Alcoholick - When you're that desperate after spilling your last glass of wine/beer that you lick it up off the surface/floor!!

Love and Happiness
Hippie
xx

[Popeye]

Hilarious Tawny!!!

Hey hippie...

I remember doing that once.
Vodka and carpet...
Yuck!!!!

[Theme2be]

champpain~the illusion of having victory over something that hurts through and through until your through.

[hippie37]

Vodkat - When you can't be arsed being an 'acloholick' so you get the cat to do it instead!!

Vodkat funnily enough is a lo percentage Vodka (22%) you can buy in any Bargain Booze in this country.