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[hallbera]

A friend emailed these to me. Haven't been able to stop snickering since.

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

Comments

[nelyo_russandol]

"Sarchasm" has to be my favourite. LOL.

[rhapsody11]

LOL

It's really called The Style Invitational

[wp_empress]

Actually, there isn't any "Mensa Invitational," but The Washington Post does have a wonderfully clever humor contest called The Style Invitational. And two Invitational contests from 1998 are the sources of many of the neologisms in the list above. (But not all: For example, "decafalon" isn't a one-letter change from "decathlon," is it? Or "caterpallor