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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. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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