OT: Humor: Word Play
Steve Lilly
word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing
one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners
(1998):
Foreploy: any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
obtaining sex.
Fortissimoe: the musical moment produced when someone
serially slaps the faces of the first-violin section.
Tatyr: a lecherous Mr. Potato Head.
Doltergeist: a spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as
your septic tank.
Giraffiti: vandalism spray-painted very, very high, such as the
famous "Surrender Dorothy" on the Beltway overpass.
Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
recipient who doesn't get it.
Conratemps: the resentment permanent workers feel toward the fill-in
workers.
Coiterie: a very VERY close-knit group.
Whitetater: a political hot potato.
Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly.
DIOS: the one true operating system.
Inoculatte: to take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis: terminal coolness.
Writer's tramp: a woman who practices poetic licentiousness.
Taterfamilias: the head of the Potato Head family.
Guillozine: a magazine for executioners.
Osteopornosis: a degenerate disease.
Adulatery: cheating on your wife with a much younger woman who holds
you in awe.
Suckotash: a dish consisting of corn, lima beans and tofu.
Emasculathe: a tool for castration.
Burglesque: a poorly planned break-in. (See: Watergate)
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.
Antifun gal: a prude.
Vaseball: a game of catch played by children in the living room.
Eunouch: the pain of castration.
Hindkerchief: really expensive toilet paper; toilet paper at
Buckingham palace.
Deifenestration: to throw all talk of God out the window.
Acme: a generic skin disease.
Dopeler effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they
come at you rapidly.
Hindprint: indentation made by a couch potato.
Intaxication: euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts
until you realize it was your money to start with.
Newtspaper: the Washington Times.
Nazigator: an overbearing member of your carpool.
CobraJet
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