OT: Fun with words
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OT: Fun with words
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:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
9. 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.
10. Glibido: All talk and no action.
11. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
12. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an *******.
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
9. 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.
10. Glibido: All talk and no action.
11. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
12. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an *******.
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More word play - and I guarantee you haven't seen these!
Some publication (New York Magazine?) ran a similar contest a few years ago, but the rule was you had to take a familiar foreign word or phrase and give it a new meaning by changing one letter. I don't have the contest winners, but this is a list I came up with myself at the time:
COP AU VIN: Alas, the sergeant is drunk again
HABEAS CARPUS: No fish, no case
C'ÉST LA PIE: I know it's a greasy spoon, but I can't resist the desserts
TREF BIEN: This bacon is good!
ICH LIEBE DICK: My sexual orientation is none of your business
BIEN CUR: Nice doggy
VIVE LA PRANCE: I just love the Lippizaners, don't you?
L'ÉTAT, C'ÉST MOD: It's a 60's kind of place
SEMPER DI: She'll never divorce the prince
MOULIN ROUGH: One tough nightclub
POX VOBISCUM: Your mother wears Army boots!
CHANGÉ D'AFFAIRES: Time to find a new lover
SING HEIL: Theme from "Springtime for Hitler"
POLO CONTENDERE: Ralph Lauren's competition
HASTA BANANA: Eat it quick, here comes King Kong
C'ÉST À DIRK: Et tu, Brute?
ET TU, BRITE?: He's not too smart, is he?
TÊTE-À-BÊTE: Denouement of the lion-tamer's act
FOIE GRAB: They're really going at the buffet table!
ENTRE ****: A very blue-blood affair
COP AU VIN: Alas, the sergeant is drunk again
HABEAS CARPUS: No fish, no case
C'ÉST LA PIE: I know it's a greasy spoon, but I can't resist the desserts
TREF BIEN: This bacon is good!
ICH LIEBE DICK: My sexual orientation is none of your business
BIEN CUR: Nice doggy
VIVE LA PRANCE: I just love the Lippizaners, don't you?
L'ÉTAT, C'ÉST MOD: It's a 60's kind of place
SEMPER DI: She'll never divorce the prince
MOULIN ROUGH: One tough nightclub
POX VOBISCUM: Your mother wears Army boots!
CHANGÉ D'AFFAIRES: Time to find a new lover
SING HEIL: Theme from "Springtime for Hitler"
POLO CONTENDERE: Ralph Lauren's competition
HASTA BANANA: Eat it quick, here comes King Kong
C'ÉST À DIRK: Et tu, Brute?
ET TU, BRITE?: He's not too smart, is he?
TÊTE-À-BÊTE: Denouement of the lion-tamer's act
FOIE GRAB: They're really going at the buffet table!
ENTRE ****: A very blue-blood affair
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