Is Nothing Sacred?

by Phil

I recently came upon a funny about the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, an event that “…asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition… Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered from a real word.”

Some of my favorites were:

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

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

17. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”

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