Alternate Meanings

    Via Small Brother.

    Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
    1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
    2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have 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.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your night-gown.
    7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
    8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavoured mouthwash.
    9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
    10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
    11. Testicle (n.), a small but humorous question in 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.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your 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.


COMMENTS / 3 COMMENTS

Cracked me up completely, thanks for the laugh!

Sussy typed this on Oct 20 05 at 2:08 pm

Hee hee. My fave is the Pokemon.

b:p typed this on Oct 20 05 at 2:40 pm

haha, I like Flabbergasted. And the photo’s of the cats! (Post below:P)

lamul (Alex) typed this on Oct 20 05 at 5:40 pm

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