Author:Author unknown, Issue: October 1999, Topic: Humour

The Washington Post recently had a contest for readers in which they were asked to supply possible alternate meanings for various words. The following were some winning entries:

• Abdicate-v., to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
• Carcinoma-n., a valley in California, most notable for its heavy smog.
• Esplanade-v., to attempt an explanation while drunk. Willy-nilly-adj., impotent.
• Flabbergasted-adj., appalled over how much weight you have gained.
• Negligent-adj., a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.
• Lymph-v., to walk with a lisp.
• Gargoyle-n., an olive-flavored mouthwash.
• Bustard-n., a very rude Metrobus driver.
• Coffee-n., a person who is coughed upon.
• Flatulence-n., the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
• Balderdash-n., a rapidly receding hairline.
• Testicle-n., a humorous question on an exam.
• Semantics-n., pranks conducted by young men studying for the priesthood, including such things as gluing the pages of the priest's prayer book together just before vespers.
• Rectitude-n., the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.
• Marionettes-n., residents of Washington who have been jerked around by the mayor.
• Oyster-n., a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
• Circumvent-n., the opening in the front of boxer shorts.
• Frisbatarianism-n., Belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

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