A bugs life

[Richard-R]

The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again 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:

16. Beelzebug (n.):

Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Oh the joys of summer.

[Mpprh]

Hi

And you can read the rest of them here !

http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=409079&CategoryID=358130&startcat=1&ThreadID=1930738

Peter

[Dick Smith]

Now I've spat coffee all over my keyboard! Brilliant - and we have our own Bozones, don't we?

[Piprob]

Richard, I do smile at your 'take' on life, which is to say the least drôle. I've tried several positions in my various attempts to discover how your unique standpoint is achieved. However, the closest I can come is when I'm almost horizontal.  'Horizontal' I can warm to, but it’s the 'almost' bit I find so uncomfortable. Would you please tell me what you are taking for the pain - and where you get it. I'd very much like some!

I see you somehow prone, hour after hour, back breaking, but tirelessly labouring away, pick in hand, sweat on brows - (desperate for a drink) - digging your tunnel ever deeper into the Earth's crust, to winkle-out the planet's rarest of minerals - humour.

[Richard-R]

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The full list:

1. Intaxication:

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

2. Reintarnation:

Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3. 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.

4. Foreploy:

A misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

5. Cashtration (n.):

The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent

for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti:

Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm:

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

8. Inoculatte:

To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis:

Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis:

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

11. 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.

12. Decafalon (n.):

The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido:

All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect:

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

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.):

The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.):

Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.):

The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus:

A person who's both stupid and an asshole