[Rhodes22-list] neologism contest, funny stuff
r22rumrunner at aol.com
r22rumrunner at aol.com
Tue Jan 5 15:36:31 EST 2010
Elle,
I don't know if I could sit down and just try to come up with some of
these. It would take a lot of rum to get me in the correct frame of mind. Then,
you never know what could come to my sick twisted rum soaked mind.
Rummy
In a message dated 1/5/2010 11:52:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
watermusic38 at yahoo.com writes:
I used to use these and other Style Invitational stuff (when appropriate!)
when I taught in No Va.
One of my former students (now a teacher in the same system) was a Style
winner/runner up several years ago....
elle
Beer is good....people are crazy
1992 Rhodes 22 Recycled '06"Watermusic" {Lady in Red}
--- On Tue, 1/5/10, KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
From: KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] neologism contest, funny stuff
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 9:55 AM
Thanks Mary Lou. My favorite:
Frostitute: Nanooky of the North (Michael Gips, Bethesda; Eric Ries,
Bethesda; Roy Ashley, Washington)
Lee
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From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Mary Lou Troy
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:21 AM
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] neologism contest, funny stuff
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/AR200912
2401947.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/12/24/ST20091224
02052.html?sid=ST2009122402052
and a link to a listing of recent Style Invitationals:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI200503
2501843.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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>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of
>r22rumrunner at aol.com
>Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:47 AM
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] neologism contest, funny stuff
>
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>
>
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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.
>
>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.
>
>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.), (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.
>
>
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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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