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johnslat · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 11:28 am Post subject: The Washington Post Invitational

For all the word-lovers out there, here's the 2002 edition of the Washington Post Invitational - anyone have any additions?

Washington Post Invitational

Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing only one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2002 winners:

INTAXICATION: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

REINTARNATION: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

FOREPLOY: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

GIRAFFITI: Vandalism painted very, very high.

SARCHASM: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

INOCULATTE: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

OSTEOPORNOSIS: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit)

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.

GLIBIDO: All talk and no action.

DOPELER EFFECT: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

AND . . . the winner of the Washington Post's Style Invitational:

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

Regards,
John

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

Dear johnslat60:

As we say down on the Amish farmland in Pennsylvania; dat woz wery wery funny! Very Happy

Now be honest, john: Was this a real competition by the Wall Street Journal, or did you make up this stuff just to make us all look like ignoranuses?

InWordsWeTrust,
keNt

johnslat · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 11:47 am Post subject: My word

Dear keNt,
Wish I could say I had made them up - but who's got the time for that? Nope, it's a regular annual event of the Washington Post ( not the right-wing Wall St. Journal - what would a bleeding-heart liberal such as myself be doing reading that rag? ). So don't worry; I'm just as much of an ignoramus as you are.
Regards,
John
P.S. So now you've dubbed me johnslat60, huh? Just how did you find out what my I. Q. score is, anyway?

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

HERPEAS: An excellent reason NOT to eat your greens.

MINISTELS: Priests who spread the word through song.

PASTAR: Road covering made from wheat.

PRIDEGROOM: Male equivalent of 'trophy girlfriend'

LANGULAGE: A prison for intensively teaching languages.

PICKSOCKET: Somebody who steals electricity.

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

Hi john!

Sorry about confusing the 2 rags. Maybe a Freudian slip on my part? I grew up in a Republican household. Razz

As for the johnslat60 funny; I picked up that little tidbit from the post in which you admitted to having 30 year-old shirts. I hope you take them to the cleaner's now and then? Laughing

OK: no more fun for me today! It is rapidly approaching 6pm here in Samara, and my chauffeur-driven coach will soon turn into a Headway book.

TakeCare,
kEnt

rogan · Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 416 Location: at home, in France

Alexander Golov is STILL making you use those old Headways he bought cheap 4 years ago ???????????

zakiah25 · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 155 Location: Oman

GERIATRICK - a retired magician
NOXIUS - don't look at me, I wasn't even in the lift at the time
PIPETT - a thin dog relieving itself on a drainpipe
PIGUANT - a spiced pork dish with a rather sharp flavour
REPALSION - sucking up to a disagreeable friend to borrow some money
SQUATTHER - that person who inhabits your kitchen and cooks your dinner every night (one for John)
SCRRABBLE - my students playing a table game during their break
TRAVELAGUE - an out of date Lonely Planet Guide Book