[SOC] Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational

[Bob Patten]

Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited 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. Intaxicaton: 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 after finding half a worm in 
the fruit you’re eating.

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73,     Bob Patten, N4BP                Plantation, FL

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