#40723
09/03/2001 11:02 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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æolotropy; or, the wind beneath our wings…  choose one: a) a sudden change in wind direction b) an embarrassing condition suffered by ancient aircraft and by Icarus wherein one's wings drop off c) existing in a state of suspension caused by wind; applicable to germination of certain flora d) a change in weather caused by winds blowing onto or off the mountains e) the evolutionary process by which limbs become wings f) bombast, logorrhea. from Aeolean, windy, and tropus, rhetorical figure g) the tendency in plants to grow upwards, as opposed to growing along the ground (agoratropy) h) in physics, the change in the direction of the flow of a system of vapors created by an increase in the amount of alcohol injected into a rotating, highly specific laboratory furnace i) the flight of time j) the process which enabled early amphibians to breathe air for longer periods and make the transition to fully developed lungs k) change of electrical, optical, or other physical qualities consequent upon change of position; the opposite of isotropy l) the process of water particles from breath condensing on glass m) the amount of wind energy in the weather system n) the change in the pigmentation of arboreal foliage attributed to the turning of season from summer to autumn
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#40724
09/03/2001 11:47 PM
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#40725
09/03/2001 11:51 PM
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Posts: 2,605
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Tsuwm: Congratulations on breaking the carpal barrier!
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#40726
09/04/2001 12:46 AM
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Posts: 275
enthusiast
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enthusiast
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I hesitate, but nevertheless please put me down forA
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#40727
09/04/2001 3:55 AM
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veteran
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The only one I can't posiively eliminate or write off as total BS is F, so I'll go with that.
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#40728
09/04/2001 8:06 AM
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journeyman
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journeyman
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I'm pretty up in the air on this one, but I'll take C.
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#40729
09/04/2001 9:36 AM
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addict
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Since nobody posted the real definition (the method by which ISPs such as AOL make it even harder for users by using obscure characters in their addresses) I wind up having to pick (eeny-meeny...) E.
Rod
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#40730
09/04/2001 4:28 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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TEd
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#40731
09/04/2001 5:08 PM
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#40732
09/04/2001 5:55 PM
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enthusiast
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#40733
09/04/2001 6:05 PM
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Posts: 771
old hand
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old hand
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It's either the right answer, or it's a brilliant ploy to capture votes. I'll take K.
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#40734
09/04/2001 7:24 PM
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#40735
09/04/2001 7:57 PM
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I like N. Don't remember from my days in physics (although I probably would have skipped over that one)
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#40736
09/04/2001 9:17 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Tsuwm! I just noticed! Carpal Tunnel the First! Is there light at the end of that Syndrome? A strange beyond-Pooh-Bah designation, indeed! remember, titles are just for fun, folks!
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#40737
09/04/2001 9:43 PM
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old hand
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#40738
09/04/2001 10:58 PM
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[cue scratchy Dylan font] "A change in the weather is known to be extreme, but what's the use of changing [guesses] in mid-stream..."
I'll go with G
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#40739
09/05/2001 9:14 AM
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Bingley
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#40740
09/05/2001 12:37 PM
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#40741
09/05/2001 1:01 PM
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addict
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K is just mundane enough to be right. The others are too... flighty.
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#40742
09/05/2001 1:59 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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I'm torn between c) and f) - but as the definition in f) is what I suffer from, and as diseases are always more manageable when you can put a name to them, I'll go for
F
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#40743
09/06/2001 12:05 AM
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enthusiast
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#40744
09/06/2001 1:15 AM
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enthusiast
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#40745
09/09/2001 9:23 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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#40746
09/10/2001 2:55 AM
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no, max -- I merely left an important bit of data in my other computer. (an alternate definition, if you must know)
before I'm done nearly everyone will score in this round.
-joe (I'll kill this game yet) bfstplk
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