Here are a few of the winners of this year's Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition :
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
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.
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.
Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidental ly walked through a spider web.
Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate
meanings for common words. And a few of the winners are:
Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
