A friend just emailed me the winners of the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational, which asks 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 of my favorites:
Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize that it was your money to start with.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Karmageddon: When everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it's a serious bummer.
Decafalon: The grueling event of getting though the day consuming only things that are good for you.
No comments:
Post a Comment