Humour
The Washington Post's Style Invitational 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 some recent 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 spray-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.
- Glibido
- All talk and no action.
- Dopeler effect
- The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
- Ignoranus
- A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
