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

-----Original Message-----
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
>
>-----Original  Message-----
>From:  rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>[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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>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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