[acornlive] Wordplay
Mark O'Sullivan (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:12:35 +0100
Hi Folks,
I came across this on a mailing list I'm subscribed to -- thought it
might be a good game for the list -- can you think of any other invented
words to add to this list?
how about this:
critterati : persons who attain celebrity by the making of natural wildlife
documenteries
post follows:
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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 of the results
- 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.
- 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.
- Glibido: All talk and no action.
- Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.
- Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.
- Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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