Word Play
 

Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing only one letter, then supply a new definition. Here are the 2002 winners:

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

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

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

Giraffiti: Vandalism painted very, very high.

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

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

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

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

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.

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Dopeer Effect: The tendency for stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

And, the winner of the Washington Post's Style Invitational:

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

haha, very funny...the last one was the best

Ignoranus!!! That's great, wish I was creative like that!

That "reintarnation" one is funny :)

ROFLMAO...these are great. Can I use them on the politicians I see in DC?

Degenerates always get extra credit baby!

Lol they all gooood

I liked reintarnation. Thanks.

i think i have used sarchasm before :)

lol nice

hahah sarchasm and ignoranus are great.

I am going to have to remember those. They seem like usefull words.

Great post.

Always nice to be able to add some new words to my vocabulary...

Hah...ignoranus...I'm gonna use that one...a lot!

Everybody guilty of "foreploy" grin and look sheepish.

Dopeer effect is the best. Im going to see if I can use that one in the middle of a school lesson.

I saw a previous version of this a while back. The only one I can remember is "Raftafarianism: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up the roof and gets stuck there."

Clever :)

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