Be careful what you say.
Copy and content go hand in hand in building a successful website. I find things I might have said differently or explained more clearly each time I visit these pages. Take time to carefully craft your message or you could be subject to misinterprepation. From my list of words that have 'alternate meanings,' the winners are:
- 1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
- 2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
- 3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
- 4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
- 5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
- 6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
- 7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
- 8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
- 9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
- 10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
- 11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
- 12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
- 13. Pokemon (n.), a Rastafarian proctologist
- 14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
- 15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
- 16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
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