Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Get Me a Dictionary

I don't belong to Mensa. I don't care to ask to join, because I wouldn't belong to a club which would have someone like me as a member anyway. But I have received news of the Washington Post's Mensa invitational word contest. It requires one to take a word, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter in it, and supplying a new definition. A few of the winners:

ignoranus: a person who's both stupid and an asshole

intaxication: euphoria at receiving a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to begin with

reintarnation: coming back in another life as a hillbilly

giraffiti: vandalism spray-painted very high

-Old Gargoyle




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