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A friend of mine sent this to me, and I thought of the occasional
misspellings that seem to persist for months at a time on these lists. I hope 
you will get a laugh from it.

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.

Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly.

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.

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

Coiterie: a very VERY close-knit group.

Impotience: eager anticipation by men awaiting their Viagra prescription.

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.

Adulatery: cheating on your spouse with a much younger person who holds you
in awe.

Eunough: the pain of castration.

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.

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

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

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