{"id":3406,"date":"2012-02-07T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2012-02-07T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:26:41","slug":"queen-of-word-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/queen-of-word-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen of Word Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3407\" title=\"1115815_queens_analogy\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1115815_queens_analogy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend a friend sent an email about the Washington Post&#8217;s Annual Mensa Invitational. According to the email, this year&#8217;s invitational consisted of two parts. In the first, &#8220;The Post invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. For those of you who, like me, can&#8217;t follow all that in your head, here&#8217;s one entry.<\/p>\n<p><em>Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The email described the second part of the invitational which asks readers to supply alternate meanings for common words. Such as:<\/p>\n<p><em>Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By the time I finished reading the 17 entries in the first category and the 16 entries in the second, my sides ached with laughter. This response confirmed a long held, secret suspicion that if I could be queen of anything, I would choose queen of word play. The email made me so happy, I also decided to blog about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s when an internet search disclosed a disturbing truth.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s Annual Mensa Invitational doesn&#8217;t exist. Once upon a time, someone ran a contest and an almost identical list has been circulated year after year&#8230;since 1998. The news kinda broke my queen of word play heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Until I stumbled upon the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonpostsmensainvitational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WPM Invitational website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WPM took the idea, though they clearly state they are not associated with the Washington Post, and now oversee their own annual contest. Their rules are identical to the first half of the original contest. At the site, you can see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonpostsmensainvitational.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 2010 contest submissions and the top ten vote getters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonpostsmensainvitational.com\/2011-submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 2011 contest submissions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonpostsmensainvitational.com\/2011-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vote for your faves in the 2011 contest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonpostsmensainvitational.com\/new-2012-submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Submit your own entries in the 2012 contest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My fave in the 2010 contest was&#8230;<strong>Ussues<\/strong> Issues shared or inherited by virtue of being in a committed relationship which was submitted by Michale Bertani.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you will excuse me, it&#8217;s time to wrap up this blog and get to work on my entries for the 2012 contest. If you&#8217;d like to vote for them, just look for the ones by <em>Queen of Word Play<\/em> and vote for royalty.<\/p>\n<p><em>This queen will be quite amused.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend a friend sent an email about the Washington Post&#8217;s Annual Mensa Invitational. According to the email, this year&#8217;s invitational consisted of two parts. In the first, &#8220;The Post invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. 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