Uglification

'I couldn't afford to learn it,' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. 'I only took the regular course.'
'What was that?' inquired Alice.
'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
'I never heard of "Uglification",' Alice ventured to say. 'What is it?'
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 'Never heard of uglifying!’ it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, I suppose?'
‘Yes,’ said Alice doubtfully: ‘it means–to–make–anything–prettier.’
‘Well, then,’ the Gryphon went on, ‘if you don’t know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.’

~Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"

I ran into a good friend of mine the other day who, as a ward activities type guy, helped put together a date auction. He told me of their apartment's plan to auction off a formal date that consisted of everybody dressing up, eating breakfast-type foods in their apartment (waffles and such) and then having some sort of dance.

There was just one snag, my friend said.

"You see," he said, "my roommate brought up a good point. He said, 'Cute girls in formal dresses are really attractive, but ugly girls in formal dresses just get...well...uglified.' "

I then proceeded to laugh my guts out, and mentally award him several monkey points.