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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 one letter and supply a new definition.

Here are the 2001 winners:

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

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

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

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-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 pick of the literature:

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

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That's pretty funny, thanks. ;)

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I came up with a great one in my sleep the other night - but it doesn't QUITE fit in with your criteria for one added letter, more like THREE. Here it is nevertheless.

Uniperversity: (definition: well what do you bloody think??)

Should be a good one for Major, methinks.....

:cool:

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Mark E.Smith's all-time classic.....

Corporateulent

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Originally posted by Hubert Mickle I came up with a great one in my sleep the other night - but it doesn't QUITE fit in with your criteria for one added letter, more like THREE. Here it is nevertheless.Uniperversity: (definition: well what do you bloody think??)Should be a good one for Major, methinks.....:cool:

What's this about me? ... ;)

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WINKER - someone who winks a lot (but often denies it, and only does it in private) :lol:

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I have a very bad case of Hipatitus. Oh Yeah :cool::cool2::smoker:

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Originally posted by Obi I have a very bad case of Hipatitus. Oh Yeah:cool::cool2::smoker:

WINKER:lol:

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