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Originally Posted by orlok
The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
...15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there....
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According to the
A Walk in the WoRds blog,
The Washington Post screwed up when they published the results of that contest as regards the word
frisbeetarianism.
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Frisbeetarianism, as it is listed in the contest, is not a common word and the meaning was not conceived by a reader. While the word may have been supplied by a reader, it was coined and defined by the late comedian George Carlin as, "the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck." Thus the meaning listed in the contest is not an alternate meaning, it is the original meaning.
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Journalistic integrity strikes again!
