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Menupause- that feeling you get when you realize the price for a meal is somewhat outrageous. "You want that much for a simple plate of spaghetti?"

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Oponionated----Opening Poster whose comments make your eyes water.
That is very good and so much nicer than I was going for! Also have noted that the Opinionated have not yet arrived on this post!!!
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Expurt: noun
a person who thinks he/she has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area, but doesn't: "my husband is quite a financial expurt"
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Tituliar, n. Boy that exaggerates about getting to second base.
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Expurt: noun
a person who thinks he/she has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area, but doesn't: "my husband is quite a financial expurt"
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Pilattes : plural noun
any flavor pie and lattes
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ashhole: noun
a hole one digs specifically for ashes
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The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time

2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an a-hole.

3. Intaxication : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

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

9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. 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.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido : All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16 Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

1. Coffee, n.. The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has 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. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph, v.. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been 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 bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16.. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

My Entry -
Villagerks - Villagers who drive stupidly, rudely, intoxicated, drugged and/or insanely, risking life and limb of themselves and, more importantly, others.

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Asphalt: a rectum problem
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Alleygory, n. A severe bowling accident.
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self-abhorsion, n.: a deeply rooted psychological condition that causes some people to try to make themselves feel better by trying to make others feel worse; can present as extreme arrogance.

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self-abhorsion, n.: a deeply rooted psychological condition that causes some people to try to make themselves feel better by trying to make others feel worse; can present as extreme arrogance.

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Testismony, n. Payment for a vasectomy.
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You are all so good at this ............. very clever.
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Sinfandel, n. A varietal wine guaranteed to eliminate moral inhibitions.
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battender: noun
someone who tends to bats (the flying animals, not baseball equipment)
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