I'm Glad They Defined That
A freind sent me this, the contest winners in WaPo's annual contest in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. The winners are:
- Coffee (n.): The person upon whom one coughs.
- Flabbergasted (adj.): Appalled over how much weight you've gained.
- Abdicate (v.): To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
- Esplanade (v.): To attempt an explanation while drunk.
- Willy-nilly (adj.): Impotent.
- Negligence (n.): A condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
- Lymph (v.): To walk with a lisp.
- Gargoyle (n.): Olive-flavored mouthwash.
- Flatulence (n.): An emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
- Balderdash (n.): A rapidly receding hairline.
- Testicle (n.): A humorous question on an exam.
- Rectitude (n.): The formal, dignified bearing adopted by some proctologists.
- Pokemon (n): A Rastafarian proctologist.
- Oyster (n.): One who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
- Frisbeetarianism (n.), back by popular demand: The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
- Circumvent (n.): An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
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