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 supplying a new definition.



The winners are:



1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying (or building) 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. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts
until you realize that 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. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.



11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)



12. Karmageddon: It's when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it's a serious
bummer.


13. Decafalon: (n .): The grueling event of getting through the
day consuming only things that are good for you.



14. Glibido: All talk and no action.



15. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.



16. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just


after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.



17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets
into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.



18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in
the fruit you're eating.



Hoping you are still awake, 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 the winners are:





1. Coffee, (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, (adj.) appalled by discovering how much weight one
has gained.
3. Abdicate, (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade, (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-Nilly, (adj.) impotent.
6. Negligent, (adj.) absentmindedly answering the door when wearing
only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, (v.) to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, (n.) emergency vehicle that picks up someone who
has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, (n.) a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by
proctologists.
13. Pokemon, (n.) a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with
Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, (n.) the belief that, after death, the soul flies
up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent, (n.) an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
Jewish men.

Those are great!