I love the Washington Post's annual contest which encourages people to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter and then supply a new definition.

Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real word. Here are this year's winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize

it was your money to start with

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

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. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it

7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late

8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness

9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease (This one got extra credit!)

10. Karmageddon: It's, like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes, and it's, like, a serious bummer.

11. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you

12. Glibido: All talk and no action

13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly

14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web

15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan, in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out

16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating