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Aw Hell
(formerly "All Hail")
by Joe Scarpato
Fun With Words
Each year the Washington Post asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter and supply a new definition.
Some Examples:
- Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
- Dopeler Effect: The tendency of dumb ideas to seem smarter when you've been smoking pot.
- Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an ass.
Since I was an English-Journalism major at Northeastern, and words are presumably my playthings, I felt challenged to come up with a few of my own. After many a sleepless night and several gallons of Jack Daniels (sacrifices I made for you, gentle reader), I came up with the following entries:
- Nasty Pudding: A club for unwashed Harvard thespians.
- Dependance: A prom for old, incontinent people.
- Femmerrhoid: A woman who's a pain in the ass.
- Funtington Avenue: A place N.U. alums remember fondly.
- The Mobster Claw: A place on Funtington Avenue "where the elite came to eat" Sicilian pizza and drink lots of beer.
- Vapid Transit: The boring way many of us got to Funtington Avenue.
- Scholarsh*t: The crap we had to study to earn a diploma.
Feel free to steal these words and pass them along to your friends (or, more likely, your enemies). It would be petty larceny.
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