Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:01:31 -0500 (Est) Subject: BLAGUES-L: Useful Words Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 16:42:16 -0600 From: Earle W. Smith 1: Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 2: Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out. 3: Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 4: Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period. 5: Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating. 6: Decaflon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 7: Dopelar effect (n.) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when you come at them rapidly. 8: Extraterrestaurant (n.) An eating place where you feel you've been abducted and experimented upon. Also known as an E-T-ry. 9: Faunacated (adj.) How wildlife ends up when its environment is destroyed. Hence faunacatering (v.), which has made a meal of many species. 10: Foreploy (n.) Any misrepresentation or outright lie about yourself that leads to sex. 11: Grantartica (n.) The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding. 12: Hemaglobe (n.) The bloody state of the world. 13: Intaxication (n.) Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 14: Kinstirpation (n.) A painful inability to move relatives who come to visit. 15: Lullabuoy (n.) An idea that keeps floating into your head and prevents you from drifting off to sleep.