[Rhodes22-list] neologism contest, funny stuff

[Mary Lou Troy]

The Post runs or used to run these contests regularly under the 
heading of "Style Invitational"

Here's a link to recent ones:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122401947.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/12/24/ST2009122402052.html?sid=ST2009122402052

and a link to a listing of recent Style Invitationals:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032501843.html

You'll have to register if you aren't but it doesn't seem to cause any harm.

They used to be in the Sunday paper (which is the only one we go out 
and buy) but they evidently now run on Saturdays. I didn't realize 
how much I missed them.

Thanks, Rummy.

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 08:12 AM 1/5/2010, you wrote:

>Rummy,
>
>Very good!  It was so funny that I Googled winning entries from other
>years and it looks like everyone is taking credit for this one single
>"annual" contest.  The best that I can tell it happened in 2005 and it
>was the Washington Post, but it was also attributed to the New York
>Times and many others for several years.
>
>Unsure about the date?
>
>Datum (n.), ummmm I think it was in 2005.
>
>Lee
>
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>Once again, The  Washington Post has published the winning submissions
>to
>its yearly  neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply
>alternative meanings  for common words.
>
>The winners are:
>
>1. Coffee (n.), the person  upon whom one coughs.
>
>2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much  weight you have 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.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly
>answer the door in  your nightgown.
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>7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
>
>8.  Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.
>
>9. Flatulence (n.) emergency  vehicle that picks you up after you are
>run
>over by a  steamroller.
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>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.
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>13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian  proctologist.
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>14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his  conversation with
>Yiddishisms.
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>15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by  popular demand): The belief that,
>when
>you die, your 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.
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>The Washington  Post's Style Invitational also 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 this year's winners:
>
>
>1. 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.
>
>2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about  yourself for the purpose
>of
>getting laid.
>
>3. Cashtration (n.): The  act of buying a house, which renders the
>subject
>financially impotent for an  indefinite period.
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>4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very,  very high.
>
>5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic  wit and the
>person who doesn't get it.
>
>6. Inoculatte (v): To take  coffee intravenously when you are running
>late.
>
>7. Hipatitis (n):  Terminal coolness.
>
>8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This  one got extra
>credit.)
>
>9. Karmageddon (n): its 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. Decafalon (n.): The  grueling event of getting through the day
>consuming only things that are  good for you.
>
>11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
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>12.  Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
>when
>they  come at you rapidly.
>
>13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance  performed just after
>you've
>accidentally walked through a spider  web.
>
>14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets  into your
>
>bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
>
>15.  Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in
>the
>fruit  you're eating.
>
>And the pick of the literature:
>
>16. Ignoranus  (n): A person who's both stupid and an  asshole.
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