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Started by Ed, October 28, 2006, 04:03:42 AM

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You might have seen these before, but it's new to me :smiley:

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The Washington Post's yearly contest where readers are asked
to supply alternate meanings for various words -- and the
winners are...


1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you
have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat
stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.

6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you
absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph (v), to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up
after you are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed
by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.

13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation
with Yiddish expressions.

14. Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die,
your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer
shorts.
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Quote from: blunt on October 28, 2006, 04:03:42 AM
You might have seen these before, but it's new to me :smiley:

Hey, I laughed.  :cheesy:

Quote from: blunt on October 28, 2006, 04:03:42 AM15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die,
your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.

Didn't George Carlin coin this?  :cheers:
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