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Some great new "words" from the Mensa Invitational. Feel free to add your own!
My favorites: numbers 1 and 18.
The Mensa Invitational once again asked members to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are year 2005 winners: 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. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period. 6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. 10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these like really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido: All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating. And the pick of the literature: 18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an *******.
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You're not getting too many responses, because I don't think that there are too many MMs or FMs registered here. I can read this thanks to my 8th grade teacher. I am also a veteran and I don't see what that has to do with my reading this in english.
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I've always been impressed at the incredible possibilism in the growing field of word coinage.
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I met a lot of vets that day, most in their mid 80's. Talked with many of them, heard some amazing stories, and even shed a few tears. After the experience of that day, I decided to add the quote to my signature for a while.
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Current: 2014 VW Tiguan SEL 4Motion 43,000 miles. 2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (wife's). Past: 2006 Jetta TDI 135,970 miles. Sold Nov. '13. 1995 E-320 Special Edition. 220,200 miles. Sold Sept. '07. 1987 190-E 16 valve. 153,000 miles. Sold Feb. '06. 1980 300-D 225,000 miles. Donated to the National Kidney Foundation. 1980 240-D manual, 297,500 miles. Totaled by inattentive driver. |
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#3 refers directly to my upper level brass.
By the time I get to that level I expect there will be a hole in the bozone layer.
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Mike Tangas '73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72 '02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis 2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel Non illegitemae carborundum. |
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Proud owner of .... 1971 280SE W108 1979 300SD W116 1983 300D W123 1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper 1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel 1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified) --------------------- Section 609 MVAC Certified --------------------- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Sadly, I know far too many #18's.
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[QUOTE=sfloriII]I saw the quote on several shirts while attending an event on the National Mall (actually near the WWII Memorial) a couple months ago that celebrated the anniversary of the day Japan surrendered. Many family members of veterens had them on. We're still speaking english here in the states thanks to the vets who have fought for our freedom. (I hope I'm not offending anyone here.)QUOTE]
I see some variation of the 'speaking English...' quote on bumper stickers fairly often. Ironic how the only foreign power to ever invade the U.S. was....the English. I applaud veterans for many things, but preserving the English language is not one of them.
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If the antiwar cowards had their way we would not be speaking english.....thats a known fact.
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Proud owner of .... 1971 280SE W108 1979 300SD W116 1983 300D W123 1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper 1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel 1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified) --------------------- Section 609 MVAC Certified --------------------- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Deja view: a strong sense that you've had a similar experience at some point in the future.
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Deja new: The mistaken feeling that nothing like this has happened before.
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Have you ever posted car questions, or shared stories, or ever given help here? I never see you in any other forum here, but here! Do you even own a Mercedes Benz? |
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