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HUMOR: New Words for the Week
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Tue Oct 13 13:09:24 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:00:50 -0400
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>From: "Joke of the Day" <<Joker@joker.org>
>Subject: New Words for the Week
>Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:53:47 -0500
>
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> Word Power - New Words for the Week
>
> 1) Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance performed just
> after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
>
> 2) Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets
> into your bedroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out.
>
> 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) Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders
> the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
>
> 5) Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a
> grub in the fruit you're eating.
>
> 6) Decaflon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the
> day consuming only things that are good for you.
>
> 7) Dopelar effect (n.) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem
> smarter when you come at them rapidly.
>
> 8) Extraterrestaurant (n.) An eating place where you feel
> you've been abducted and experimented upon. Also known as
> an E-T-ry.
>
> 9) Faunacated (adj.) How wildlife ends up when its
> environment is destroyed. Hence faunacatering (v.), which
> has made a meal of many species.
>
> 10) Foreploy (n.) Any misrepresentation or outright lie
> about yourself that leads to sex.
>
> 11) Grantartica (n.) The cold, isolated place where art
> companies dwell without funding.
>
> 12) Hemaglobe (n.) The bloody state of the world.
>
> 13) Intaxication (n.) Euphoria at getting a tax refund,
> which lasts until you realize it was your money to start
> with.
>
> 14) Kinstirpation (n.) A painful inability to move
> relatives who come to visit.
>
> 15) Lullabuoy (n.) An idea that keeps floating into your
> head and prevents you from drifting off to sleep.
>
>
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