Wordplay.........

Beebeeblue

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The Washington Post's Style Invitational 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 some recent 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) Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

4) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

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

6) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

7) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

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

9) 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.

10) Glibido: All talk and no action.

11) Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

And, the pick of the litterature:

12) Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
 
Texploitation: Cheap Westerns set in and around the Alamo, or other places ostentatiously Texan.

Drolt: A person who is funny only until you realize that they aren't smart enough to write their own jokes. (See Late Night TV)
 
saw this on Saturday Night Live about a million moons ago:

Ignosecond: that split second between locking and shutting your car door and realizing, "Oh, no, my keys are in there!"
 
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