Washington Post Mensa Invitational?

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Every once in a while I get some good jokes, videos, games, etc. from my friends. There is one that I seem to get every year and I started wondering if this thing really exists. It is usually called the Washington Post Mensa Invitational. This time my good friend Christina Pulawski sent it to me. She usually sends me only great stuff that makes me laugh out loud.

Well, it doesn´t exist really. I mean something like it exists and it is called The Style Invitational and it is part of the Washington Post. This is a weekly game in which the grand prize is a trophy called The Inker and maybe some other small prize that may have something to do with that week´s contest and that are also given to the 1st runners up. The other runners up get a Style Invitational Loser T-shirt. Honorable mentions could get a magnate.

It is not always based on writing. In fact, week #713 is titled Painings. If you go to week #713 you are going to see a picture making reference to a winner from a year ago who took a picture of his feet, or tried to anyway.

You can go -here- to see what this weeks contest is.

Meanwhile you can also take a look at the following list, which I think is actually from 2005 as opposed to 2006 like it says in this recycled e-mail. I did find them funny though. Don´t worry, you might see them every year in your mailbox. At least now you can tell whomever it is that is sending these things to you that you know the Mensa Invitational doesn´t exist really, sort of.

Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational, which once again asked
readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by
adding,subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

The 2006 winners are:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying (or building) a house, which
renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period
of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
you realize that it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. 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.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

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

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

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

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

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

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

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

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

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

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

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


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The Power Of Flight

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I have something fun for you today. Well, I think they're fun every day, but this one was fun for me to get. I'm bringing you a flock of robins that were taking an opportunity to get themselves a wintertime meal in some small trees. The fun part is that some of them are in various stages of flight!

First, I think this is similar to a post I wrote a few days ago called, The Birds. They both include several shadowy photos of birds flocking in barren trees. The difference is that this time these birds were only a few feet away from me. One almost flew into me!
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There is a main trail that leads into the forest where these robins like to gather. It seems that there is plenty of food for them in and around the trees here. I've seen other birds here as well, but mostly robins. Robins on the ground, robins in the air, and robins in the trees.

When I was on my way back to the front of the park, I encountered this noisy flock of robins gathered in the trees here. They were flying around back and forth. Some were staying on the same branches for several minutes before moving on, and some would only stay for seconds at a time.


When I saw that the flock wasn't going to leave just yet, I decided to take my time and get the best examples of them in their back and forth flight as I could. The only regrets were that I wish the lighting was better, and I wish I would have remembered to get some video.

Sometimes pictures are the best way to show some things though. Showing a bird frozen in flight can only be done with a photograph. No video can capture that long enough for you to sit there and study the pattern of the wings and the shape of the bird like a photo can.


This whole thing was really tricky for me while I was out there, because I was trying to move in as close as I could while trying to keep them from flying away or dropping little birdy bombs on me. It was still a fun experience, even with that last risk.

When I decided to finally leave them there, I had to walk directly under the whole flock. I pulled the hood of my coat up over my head, and then hunched over to look at the ground as I quickly made my way through that awful gauntlet. I'm happy to report that none of them even tried to get me with their little homing missiles.

With that final thought, I'll leave you for today!


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