These came from our favourite UN diplomat, Jordan Ryan:<\/p>\n
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.<\/p>\n
Here are the winners:<\/p>\n
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.<\/p>\n
And the winners:<\/p>\n
A woman went into the kitchen to make a cup of tea and found her husband shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.<\/p>\n
Reaching the end of a job interview, the human resources person asked a young engineer fresh out of MIT, “And what starting salary were you looking for?”<\/p>\n
The engineer said, “In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.”<\/p>\n
The interviewer said, “Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks\u2019 vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years – say, a red Corvette?”<\/p>\n
The engineer sat up straight and said, “Wow! Are you kidding?”<\/p>\n
And the interviewer replied, “Yeah, but you started it.”<\/p>\n
These came from our favourite UN diplomat, Jordan Ryan: The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject … <\/p>\n