The Washington Post Style Invitational as readers to change any word beginning with E or F by one letter and define the result. Some of our favorites:
Epigramp: A maxim that brands the speaker as an old codger: "If God had wanted women to wear pants . . ." (Brendan Beary, Great Mills)
Educrate: To teach in one of the "modules" set up "temporarily" in the parking lot of an overcrowded school. (Ted Einstein, Silver Spring)
Emacidate: Go out with a fashion model. (Kevin Dopart)
Demoticon: A little symbol signifying bad news on an e-mail from the boss. (Roy Ashley, Washington)
Enguish: What elocution teachers feel when they hear the president on the radio. (Karl Koerber, Crescent Valley, B.C.)
Fistipuffs: Very minor squabbling. (Jim Lubell, Mechanicsville)
Flabboyant: Proudly displaying one's girth. "In his Chippendales skit on 'SNL,' Chris Farley was amazingly flabboyant." (Brendan Beary)
Fatulence: That squishing noise of thighs rubbing together. (Jim Lubell, Mechanicsville)
Forget-me-note: A Dear John letter. (Chris Doyle)
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