[Groop] Fwd: Ambiguate and other created words (off-topic)

[Steve Hubbell]

>From: "Jeremy Tassoff" <kublakhan73 at hotmail.com>
>To: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
>Subject: Ambiguate and other created words (off-topic)
>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:42:50 -0400
>
>Howdy folks,
>
>I'm a long time lurker on the mailing list and after reading the discussion
>today, I finally decided to jump in and add my two cents...
>
>The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again asked readers to take
>any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding or subtracting one letter,
>and supply a new definition. Here are the 2003 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) 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.
>
>4) Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of 
>getting
>laid.
>
>5) Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
>financially impotent for an indefinite period.
>
>6) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
>
>7) Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person 
>who
>doesn't get it.
>
>8) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
>
>9) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
>
>10) Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
>
>11) 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.
>
>12) Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming
>only things that are good for you.
>
>13) Glibido: All talk and no action.
>
>14) Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they
>come at you rapidly.
>
>15) Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've
>accidentally walked through a spider web.
>
>16) Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your
>bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
>
>17) Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the
>fruit you're eating.
>
>And the pick of the LITERature:
>
>18) Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

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