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These come out once a year and are worth a look although they have nothing to do with beer. Maybe we could start a Brewsa Invitational? I'll try and put some starting entries at the bottom of this post! Maybe a few others can do likewise? (Easier after a few beers!)
Here's the Mensa one...
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a newdefinition.Here are this year's {2005} winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an *******.
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 stopsbright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in thenear 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. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really badvibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
14. Glibido: All talk and no action.
15. Dopeler effect: The tendencyof stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
Brewsa Invitational
1. Fale: Usually brewed at the beginning of one's homebrew career. You think the beer is great but your mates have one sip, leave you at home, and go to the pub. (Uses top fermenting yeast).
2. Flager: Same as Fale yet brewed using a bottom fermenting yeast. Often brewed at the same temperature as a Fale - 32 degrees (celcius!).
3. Flowmenter: The name briefly given to a fermenter at the time of the addition of wort whilst the tap is still open. (see Lamenter)
....I think I'm going to come up with a few more here so will start a new thread, 'Brewsa Invitational 2006'. So if you have anything to add, then perhaps it might be better to add it to that thread! Cheers!
Here's the Mensa one...
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a newdefinition.Here are this year's {2005} winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an *******.
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 stopsbright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in thenear 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. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really badvibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
14. Glibido: All talk and no action.
15. Dopeler effect: The tendencyof stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
Brewsa Invitational
1. Fale: Usually brewed at the beginning of one's homebrew career. You think the beer is great but your mates have one sip, leave you at home, and go to the pub. (Uses top fermenting yeast).
2. Flager: Same as Fale yet brewed using a bottom fermenting yeast. Often brewed at the same temperature as a Fale - 32 degrees (celcius!).
3. Flowmenter: The name briefly given to a fermenter at the time of the addition of wort whilst the tap is still open. (see Lamenter)
....I think I'm going to come up with a few more here so will start a new thread, 'Brewsa Invitational 2006'. So if you have anything to add, then perhaps it might be better to add it to that thread! Cheers!
