"Style Invitational" and totally new words

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998
From: Steve and Cindy / atlas@EZNET.NET

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

• Foreploy:
  any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of obtaining sex.

• Doltergeist:
  a spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as your septic tank.

• Giraffiti:
  vandalism spray-painted very, very high, such as the famous "Surrender Dorothy" on the Beltway overpass.

• Sarchasm:
  the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it.

• Impotience:
  eager anticipation by men awaiting their Viagra prescription.

• Reintarnation:
  coming back to life as a hillbilly.

• DIOS:
  the one true operating system.

• Inoculatte:
  to take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

• Hipatitis:
  terminal coolness.

• Taterfamilias:
  the head of the Potato Head family.

• Osteopornosis:
  a degenerate disease.

• Karmageddon:
  It's like, when everybody is sending off all these like really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like a serious bummer.

• Hindkerchief:
  really expensive toilet paper; toilet paper at Buckingham palace.

• Deifenestration:
  to throw all talk of God out the window.

• Acme:
  a generic skin disease (alt: the *best* skin disease).

• Dopeler effect:
  the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.