Nerds just wanna have fun with words

Here's yet another interesting and funny list that I happened to come across and really wanted to share with Pinkoy readers. It's a list of clever (fun) words taken from Washington Post's Mensa Invitational.

Well, according to one of the sites that featured this list, there's actually no such thing as "Mensa Invitational," but popular urban legend pinned this name on one of the recurring contests appearing in the column "The Style Invitational" authored by someone called "The Empress" publishing in the Washington Post.


The contest asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Hmm...come to think of it, this word game could really be fun especially if you are indeed a nerd of some sort (joke!). Okay, NOW I get it, that's why it came to be Mensa Invitational...(Dang! and I was hoping to get into Mensa hehe)

For those who still don't know what the heck Mensa is, "Mensa is the largest, oldest, and best known high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised intelligence test." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International)I'm no nerd really, but I did have fun reading the list. So here goes the winning list of clever new words courtesy of Washington Post's Mensa Invitational:

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

Here's yet another list published by the Washington post of winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked (this time) to supply alternate meanings for common words.

1. Coffee: The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted: Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate: To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade: To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly: Impotent.
6. Negligent: Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph: To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle: Olive-flavoured mouthwash.
9. Flatulence: Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash: A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle: A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude: The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon: A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster: A person who sprinkles his conversation with yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism: The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent: An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men