[Rhodes22-list] neologism contest, funny stuff

R22RumRunner at aol.com R22RumRunner at aol.com
Thu Jan 7 07:43:01 EST 2010


Elle,
It must be really slow this time of year at the marina? Very good.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 1/5/2010 5:44:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
watermusic38 at yahoo.com writes:

Rum  One,
Sometimes these things just happen....but proper preparation of the  brain 
is essential.
Here's one for you..that just 'happened'....let's just  say I can 
personally vouch for the authenticity of this one:
A couple was  nestled comfortably together..'spooning is the term 
used...(think of spoons in  the cutlery drawer....)
The female partner told her male partner the name  for this was 
spooning....the male partner quickly retorted that if this was  spooning, what was the 
other...forking???
All  true...
elle


Beer is good....people are crazy

1992 Rhodes  22    Recycled '06"Watermusic"  {Lady in Red}

--- On  Tue, 1/5/10, r22rumrunner at aol.com <r22rumrunner at aol.com>  wrote:

From: r22rumrunner at aol.com  <r22rumrunner at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] neologism  contest, funny stuff
To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
Date: Tuesday,  January 5, 2010, 3:36 PM

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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