vavaverity's journal, but which was too funny not to post here. It's a new coinage: cosmosis. This reminds me of that very funny contest sponsored by some group or other whereby the readers are challenged to invent a new term by taking an already existing word and adding or subtracting a letter and giving a definition for the new term. I wish I had thought of this one while the contest was ongoing, and I'd have enterted it!
cosmosis (n.): Process whereby adolescent males incidentally learn something about women by reading Cosmopolitian Magazine while browsing for pictures of girls in lingerie.
I love it.
BTW, the contest you're thinking of was probably run by the Washington Post. They do something like that every week.
Probably the all-time classic add-a-letter is luser, as in, "I told the luser I didn't know the answer to his question, but he might find it on page 6, paragraph 2, third sentence in the manual I wrote JUST FOR HIM."