A friend put this on Live journal, how many can we come up with?

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Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing only one letter and supply a new definition.
Here are the 2002 winners:

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

Giraffiti: Vandalism painted very, very high.

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit).

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.

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

And, the winner of the Washington Post's Style Invitational:

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an @ssh*le.

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Andrea
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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

I've seen this list before, but it's still v.entertaining. I want an innoculatte machine...

Knitten: inextricable tangle of yarn caused by very small cat. (I'll think up some more when I'm less tired!)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Anniversorry: regret that you forgot the significance of yesterday's date.

Can't think why that came to mind, it's not like people forget my birthday... ignore it maybe, but not forget

Inarticulatte : Being unable to decipher bewildering array of coffee available in Starbucks.

Psychosmis: type of insanity characterised by vivid olfactory hallucinations.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Beditate: to contemplate a Tracey Emin exhibition at a famous art gallery

Elostic: something which doesn't stop your knickers from falling down

(or maybe that should be "elustic" instead! )

Xenaphobia: An irrational fear of warrior princesses.

Telepathetic: Being really bad at reading other peoples' minds.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Dustiny: Being fated to do the cleaning

Compuker: a PC that goes wrong so often it makes you sick

Big Brothel: that TV show after the first couple of weeks

*thumbs up for excellent definitions* Yes, Guy, we have three compukers here on a notwork, which I'm sure I don't need to define!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Brontesaurus - Book of similes for extinct authors...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Conputer: A computer that can't actually perform as advertised unless you add various (expensive) extras.
Hardwore: Computer equipment that has seen extensive use.
Hardwere: Obsolete computer equipment.
Softwere: Obsolete computer programmes.

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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly."

CocoaCola: A chocolatey hot drink with added fizz.

Phraser: A type of advanced sidearm that Jurisfiction agents may be able to requisition for use on missions into SF works.

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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly."



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Microsaft - you work it out.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Thanks to Mr Fforde's intro page, I can unveil the word Tour-ette. It means an uncontrollable outburst of book-signings...

Simon - amazingly we managed to crack the code on the drinks machine at school, and cocoacola did indeed become an option.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

(Real 'CocoaCola'? I don't know whether to be impressed or nauseous...)

Burrow Wight _ A type of undead being, from Middle-Earth, that "lives" in tunnels.



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