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Subject: MAPS-L: Neologisms
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:18:20 -0500
From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
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Completely off topic but too funny!
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Subject: FW: Neologisms
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:55:09 -0500
From: acope
To: maps-l
Try this for clever stuff...
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions
> to its yearly Neologism Contest, in which readers are asked to supply
> alternate meanings for common words.
>
> This year's 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.
>
> 1 3. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
>
> 14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with
Yiddisisms.
>
> 15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), 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.
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