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Offline Uncle Ernie

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Words- anyone else like them?
« on: December 13, 2008, 06:51:40 PM »
I know this is a bit esoteric, but I loved this and just wanted to pass it along to someone...



The Washington Post's Mensa  Invitational once again
>  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. Read  them carefully.
>  Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to  form a real
>  word.
>  Some are terrifically innovative.
>
>
>  1.  Intaxication: Euphoria 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 (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.
>
>  4.Cashtration (n.)The act of buying a  house, which
>   renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite  period of
>  time.
>
>  5.Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted  very, very high.
>
>  6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author  of 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 disease. (This  one 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 andit's like, a serious bummer.
>
>  11.Decafalon (n.): The  grueling 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 (n.): The frantic dance  performed
>    just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web..
>
>  15.Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that
>  gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
>
>  16.Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding
>    half a worm in the  fruit you're eating.
>
>  And the pick of the lot:
>
>  Ignoranus: A person who's both  stupid and an ***hole!

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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2008, 07:00:43 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D

My favorite:

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3.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.

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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2008, 09:38:11 AM »
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  6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author  of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2008, 01:43:24 PM »
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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2008, 01:49:47 PM »
Borum - When chatting on the internet is not all that much fun anymore.

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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2008, 05:30:00 PM »
Nickjtc posted this in the humor section a couple of weeks ago.  Heffay came up with two that were pretty good, though I'm not sure they follow the rules of the contest:

here's one i'd like to add to the list... it just came to me!

oxymoron, n: a very clean idiot  ;D

ooooh, here's another one!

servitude, adj: to serve w/ an attitude
            often associated w/ early morning baristas

This isn't quite the same, but still humorous.
My wife was in Kentucky grading AP English exams earlier this year and came home with a list of made up words and awkwardly punctuated sentences/metaphors and similes gone bad.  The assignment was to analyze a short story.

Here are a few examples:

“The excerpt is all in Dasai’s point of view.  She’s the author and she wrote it, in the form of her imagination; how she seen it.”

“I did not get a literature orgasum [sic] nor emotionally envolved [sic] in any way.  This passage, in my opinion, is from a regular book, sitting on a dusty shelf in a library and there is nothing special about it any way.”

“Just reading, I knew that he had a horrible experience, but as I analyzed it, I knew even further.”

“Being forced to go immediately put a rain cloud on the experience.”

“As the reader continues into the story, the reader learns that he has been placed in the mind of Arun, sitting in the depths of Arun’s mind.”

“The mood that was set between the two of them at this point was seemed to be known that there was an awkwardness, and if not that then a type of feeling associated with it.”

“Descriptive adjectives seem to conquer the novel.”

On third-person narration: “Now, instead of reading like a whiny diary, it reads like a television show.”

“Dasai uses a limited amount of dialogue to emphasize that there was not much talking going on.”

“…vivid descriptions such as the damp, puffy hands also put the reader in Arun’s swimming trunks.”

“Too bad for America that chivalry seems to be an endangered species.”

“An experience is a personal thing for a person.”

“…small town attractions, like bushes with poisonous berries.”

“Desai uses verbs that describe what people are doing or what they are about to do.”

“… the sort of obtuseness of the average American family life.”

“…conventional pastoral notion of the woods.”

“He is much like a wild horse among tame horses—different.”

“Whenever a parent is bound and determined to have fun, it basically means don’t hold in oxygen because I’m going.”

“This is where my Freudian logic comes into play.”

“It was that tense feeling you get when you see a severed limb, or something to that effect.”

Permutations of third person omniscient:
third-person omipotent
third-person omnivorous
third-party omniscient (Nader?) 

Ralph Waldo Ellison

King Lear and his foil, King Monticello

Made up/mis-spelled words (this probably a sixth of them):
bluntant
exrospected
blind-sighted
lackzadazzacle (nonchalantly bedazzling something or a critique of a junior high dance squad)
authontataxic
omnisc*nt (rhymes with runt :o :o)
quotationing
complacidly
glavishing
constrivative
growtesk (for grotesque)

Sometimes they would do some creative writing instead of answering the essay:

“This is my haiku.
I think that it’s a good one.
And I’m never wrong.”
 
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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2008, 07:22:47 PM »
Gosh that was funny.  Thanks an awful lot for that!
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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2008, 07:48:55 PM »
>  3.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

I  see this one daily in my helpdesk job. Usually the conversation ends with "I don't understand, just come over and fix it"
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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2008, 10:26:17 AM »
Funny stuff.
Laugh at least once a day.
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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2008, 10:38:51 AM »
Ernie, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you are one of those book readin' types. 

What are you reading currently?
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« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2008, 10:55:46 AM »
I'm guessing Dr. Seuss
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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2008, 11:27:01 AM »
I'm gonna take the opportunity to suggest we start a book recommendation thread; What are you reading? , reviews, favorites, etc. etc.

What do you think?

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« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2008, 11:31:11 AM »
Sounds good to me!
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« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2008, 11:36:15 AM »
That would be great.  I'm sure there are other readers on here and it would be a good way to find out about good books.
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« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2008, 05:00:42 PM »
>  3.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

I  see this one daily in my helpdesk job. Usually the conversation ends with "I don't understand, just come over and fix it"



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« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2008, 05:50:36 AM »
What's a "book"?

You mean like a manual?
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Re: Words- anyone else like them?
« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2008, 02:12:31 PM »

     Uncle, This one is Perfect for David and Jan:

       3.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.

     Yep, fits them to a "T"! ;D :D ;) Actually, there are several that would fit just as well. ::)

                              Later on, Bill ;)
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« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2009, 12:23:42 PM »
Books, Oh now I know what you mean........did you know that a Webster's dictionary is the perfect thickness that if you put it under the front wheel while the bike is on the centre stand it will keep it off of the cold concrete and still allow the rear wheel to sit about an inch off of the ground as well. Too bad I can't look up "combustion" all winter though........
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