I thought to share an email that I think is quite clever and maybe the chemtak family can take up the challenge as I'm sure you are all clever and certainly very witty! Even some of those "Ginger Meggs" collective nouns are good fun too!
So here goes anyway, put your thinking caps on!
"The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational again asked readers to take any word for the dictionary, alter it by adding , subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners. Read them carefully. Each one is an artificial word with only one letter altered from the real word. Some are terrifically innovative.
1. Intaxication - Eurphoria 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. Bozone - 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.
4. Cashtration - The act of buying a house which renders the subject finacially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
5. Giraffiti - Vandalism spray-painted very high.
6. Sarchasm - The gulf between the author of the sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
7. Inoculatte - To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis - Terminal coolness.
9. Osteopornosis - A degenerate disesase (this got extra credit)
10.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.
11.Decafalon - The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
12.Glibido - All talk and no action
13.Dopeler Effect - The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
14.Arachnoleptic Fit - The frantic dance performed just after you've accidently walked through a spider web.
15.Beelzebug - Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out
16.Caterpallor - The colour you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you are eating.
And the pick of the lot...
Ignoranus - A person who's both stupid and an arsehole."
Hope these make you laugh as they did me!
Lou.
