Funny and very clever -Mensa invitational word plays

[Mira]

Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which 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 the winners:


1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

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

4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. 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.

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

7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the Person who doesn't get it.

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

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 a after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Beelzebug

That's a chuckle. Also includes camping trip/tent incidents.

[RandomThoughts]

2. How is this one. Fits the forum context

Trulling

Intentionally creating a flame war on a forum by simply stating the truth.

[DarkTirade]

3. Ignoranus I've seen/heard a few times before

but the others are all new to me.

[woo me with science]

4. I've heard that one too,

as well as sarchasm.

[DarkTirade]

5. Never heard sarchasm before...

but I certainly know it well. :P

[FloridaJudy]

6. Palintology

The study of fake fossils (seeing as how the earth is only 6,000 years old)