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#163485 11/14/06 11:59 AM
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a) (slang) the detatchable flashing light used primarily by volunteer firemen and police

b) (Danish) the notches in the stem post of a longboat created by the friction caused by the painter used to secure the ship to a shore fixture

c) after blip: a brief static interruption on a radar screen
Later called a blipie by cameramen when the FCC made use of the blip to beep unapproved words from live television. A corruption of blipie was made popular by the TV comedy "Laugh In" in its lampoon of the FCC in calling the human arse a bippy. From a transcript of a 1972 Senate Hearing investigating Rowan and Martin the bippy is euphemmistically referred to as a blype.

d) an embellishing architectural ornament used to counterbalance a gargoyle

e) a disease of cattle. Symptoms are brittle hooves and horns

f) a spacer used in printing to separate two lines or characters which appear too close together

g) a small shred or roll of skin

h) the metal tube pounded into a sugar maple tree to collect sap

i) collective term for large amounts of sonar interference

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Obviously.

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g) a small shred or roll of skin

As one grows old(er), and these blypes begin to appear more often on the body, one could develop an intense fear or anxiety.
This is known as Blypephobia

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I gotta go with "G"... ewww.

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I'll take F, please.

Who are the nine, EC? I spotted milum's daffynition immediately, as usual, but could you name all the perps as is customary, if not one of da roolz?

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Would that not give some of them away?

Going with [i) as the least preposterous.


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Who are the nine, EC? I spotted milum's daffynition immediately, as usual, but could you name all the perps as is customary, if not one of da roolz?




Oops! i goofed.
OK - definitions submitted by consuelo, themilum, AnnaStrophic, Faldage, Father Steve, musick, TEd and - sigh - one other whom I forgot to note, and who has now slipped the surly bonds of my memory. Please PM me with a reminder and a reprimand. Thank you. Plus, of course, the real one......

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I'm gonna get an F anyway.....


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Well, F a reply is better than no guess at all, I guess...

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I mo go with A.

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I too like f also.

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May I have B, please? I believe Thor Heyerdahl used the term in one of his later books.

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ParkinT PM'd to remind me of his entry. Apologies again.

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I'm with Musick. G.

I liked B, but the def was kinda chunky.


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... I spotted milum's daffynition immediately, as usual.




That's funny, Anna from Atlanta, I didn't submit a definition this round of Hogwash...in protest!

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Well, Milo, the hogmistress says you did...

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OK - definitions submitted by consuelo, themilum, AnnaStrophic, Faldage, Father Steve, musick, TEd and



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Uh...sometimes themilum forgets what he has submitted.

But think a bit, Consuello, who should you believe? The Hogmistress? Or the man who didn't submit the definition?

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Uh...sometimes themilum forgets what he has submitted.

But think a bit, Consuello, who should you believe? The Hogmistress? Or the man who didn't submit the definition?




Or, as Chico Marx so succinctly said to Margaret Dumont, when he was dressed up as Groucho, "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

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I guess y'all must be waiting on me... H it is.

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