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the correct definition, as you may have gleaned by now, has to do with ivory billiard balls. the voting was heavy and close between ASp's and Flatlander's entries, with Bingley seeming to come along belatedly to cast the decisive ballot -- but wait! one of the votes for B was by ASp her-own-self, nefariously jumping on her own Bandwagon. so it's a flatfooted tie, with Flatlander getting the nod via the tiebreaker. [see Code of Ethics and Bylaws, Item 17f.]
a) In calligraphy, a writing implement used for engraving special inks (i.e.
gold-embossed).
[def'n by WhitmanO'Neill]
b) A small writing desk (similar to a secretary) popular during the Italian Neoclassical
period (1760-1800), and characterized by a marble writing top, pendant floral
carving on the drawers and fluted tapering legs.
[AnnaStrophic - 7... 6 votes]
c) A removable paper cover protecting a bound book; a dust jacket.
[caradea - 1 vote]
d) an inspector of entrails, for the purpose of divination
[tsuwm - 1 vote]
e) An old way of writing short notes - a kind of shorthand, indeed, not dissimilar in
intention to the text that people use on mobile phones.
[RhubarbCommando]
f) A fountain pen made entirely of glass, also called a dipping pen.
[TEd Remington - 1 vote]
g) A small but deadly knife with the blade twisted in the manner of a screw before
the final tempering. Associations: Shiv= blade. Shive=knife. Scr= screw Stilo=stylus.
Stilletto=little knife Manufactured in Italy, thescrivello quickly became the favourite
assassination tool of the "Black Hand"-a secret Serbian society, outlawed in 1917 for
the suspected assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. A scrivello
appears in the upcoming Arnold Schwarzenegger movie-Collateral Damage.
[milum - 1 vote]
h) A decorative masonry technique in which a thin line of mortar is excised from a
joint and then filled with white lime.
[Flatlander - 6 votes]
i) The operating expenses of an opera house. [origin unknown]
[Wordwind]
j) from the root "scrivo" meaning to write, plus the diminutive "ello" so - "to do little
writing"
[stales]
k) A public letter writer who works in a house of joy.
[Bobyoungbalt]
l) A small elephant tusk, once commonly used to produce billiard balls
[OED2 - 1 vote, from caradea :-p ]
m) from latin v. scrivirto write pron. ellohim, penpal
[consuelo - 1 vote]
n) A marble patterning in which white and green stripes are alternated, used in
Romanesque Italian cathedral architecture.
[Jazzoctopus -1 vote (jazzo must be wondering why so many preferred H... 8) ]
o) Hastily written piece of music in the style of Ivor Novello (Welsh actor, composer
and playwright (1893-1951)).
[Bingley]
p) A portable writing desk.
[Sparteye]
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Hey! Voting for yer own se'f is in the by-laws somewhere; I saw it.* I know I did. It was right there next to that four-leaf clover....
Good work, Flatlander! Good guess, caradea! Good game, tsuwm!
*Edit: Course you don't git no points for it....
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>Voting for yer own se'f is in the by-laws somewhere
of course it is -- I just arbitrarily used it as a tiebreak. 8-)
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(jazzo must be wondering why so many preferred H... 8) ]
Indeed I was. Oh well.
What I described is actually called incrustation, but it's not always green marble. It's used in the Pisa cathedral.
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arbitrarily used it as a tiebreakBut it weren't no tie till you discounted it the first time. You done is penalized her twice fer what ain' even against the rules 
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>But it weren't no tie till you discounted it the first time. You done is penalized her
twice fer what ain' even against the rules
well, that's arbitrarily argumentative... oh, wait. that came from faldage. never mind.
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from f[sic]aldage
Well, is it against the rules or not?
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I humbly concede after having the rules pointed out to me by the lovely AnnaS her own se'f.
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>Well, is it against the rules or not?
it's as I said. s'not.
it boils down to three choices:
3) call it a tie and award dual gold medals
2) give the win to the person who, seemingly, successfully bluffed
1) give the win to the person who gave someone else a vote
well, since there ain't no gold medals anyways, what da heck.
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What I described is actually called incrustation, but it's not always green marble. It's used in the Pisa cathedral.
Thanks Jazzo - now I have a name for what I had the other night! The Pisa I got from the Take-away was encrusted with green and tasted of marble - it must have been a scrivello piza 
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Thank you all for the votes -- the one-gallon jugs of new-crop Vermont maple syrup will be mailed out as soon as the sap starts running. Like Jazzo's marbelous bluff, the definition I supplied is also a real technique, and after asking several people here in the office and emailing my old professor, it seems it is a technique in need of a name. Therefore, unless it imperils my point total for this round, I decree that the technique in which a thin line of mortar is excised from a joint and then filled with white lime will hereinafter be known as a scrivello joint.
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Don' care what you call it, man - jus' pass it roun'
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Can anyone start another Hogwash game?
Hey, Milum. Guess what number post this is?11,111!
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>Can anyone start another Hogwash game? if you've got a word in mind, toss it out for the next round, consuelo. (if not, I've got another. d'oh.) http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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