What A Wonderful Word

It's a free ticket frenzy at work at the moment, and I am taking full advantage! Tonight Scarf is coming with me to see the Hoosiers in Camden, and tomorrow I have tickets to see Feeder as part of one of our station's birthday celebrations. Sometimes I really love my job. This weekend also sees West End Live take over London's West End. Basically this is a festival of sorts celebrating all that's great about the West End, so it includes live acts from the best musicals on an outdoor stage at Leicester Square; movies and all sorts of other promotions and entertainment. Best of all - it's all free! This is good, as I am poorer than an Ethiopian churchmouse. TheArtyOne, Mello and I will be joining thousands of revellers taking part in the fun tomorrow.

I have been reading articles on SA Good news today, and was going to write a serious post on how I think that we all - me included - need to make more of an effort to get involved in making a difference. I was even going to talk up these fabulous bags I found that are made entirely from discarded polypropylen packaging that is used to transport tea, coffee, sugar, rice, etc, thereby helping protect the environment. I still think it's a great idea, and the manufacturer has come up with some lovely extra motivations to go along with the bags, based on the concept of pay-it-forward. Check them out here.

Anyway, so that's what I was going to do. BUT.... then I found this. And I thought, you know what? It's Friday. We'll leave the serious post for another day. Enjoy the intelligent wit, courtesy of the readers of the Washington Post. :-)

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

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

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. 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.

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

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

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

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

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. 11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

12. 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.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

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

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.