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hogwash :: ketchcraft
choose one:
a) the art of astral projection, causing one's spirit to leave one's body and appear to other people
b) the Wiccan practice of casting spells to ensure the proper functioning of food preparation
c) the art of sauce making
d) delicate woodwork detailing such as may be found decorating pews and pillars in churches and cathedrals; the art of carving such detailing
e) an ancient Masonic body of metaphysical knowledge attained through the practice of necromancy and ritualistic chant
f) the art of making ketchup
g) the hangman's craft (from Jack Ketch, a famous London executioner, c. 1663-1686)
h) a type of strong brown paper used esp. for making lunch bags or sacks (also formerly, used to refer to a sackcloth garment worn by an offender when doing public penance)
i) the process of manufacturing masts for single-masted sailing vessels used primarily in light craft obstacle maneuvers (handling) and racing
j) the art of drawing with tomato sauce
k) the creation of artworks meant to be impermanent, i.e. sculptures made of sand, ice, or foam
l) whittling
m) cooking with ketchup
n) Scandinavian cabinetry making
o) If it isn't boat building it sure as hell ought to be.
(entries from Wordwind, slithy, wofa, W-O'N, *TEd, Bingley, Faldage, bonzai, mg, ASp, 'sick, Jeepers, consuelo, joe f.)
*I think his was more of a protest-vote than an entry but.
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also, I'll take this opportunity to announce a new, occasional hogwash® auxiliary award, the 'Armadillo Roadside Memorial' (ARMil®); nominations for this award are open in concert with the regular voting, and any decision on the awarding of the ARMil will be arbitrarily and capriciously taken by the hogmaster® (i.e., me) based upon nominations received from the hogminions (i.e., y'all).
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'Armadillo Roadside Memorial' (ARMil®) Cool! 
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In the spirit of wanting a place to put my Sedgewick, I'll cast my vote for N, if'n that's the Scandanavian entry.
Can't remember for the life of me if it was Sedgewick or Sedgwick...?
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Ah yes, I been known to dabble in the ephemeral. My heart and my mind cast two votes for... EEMy vote for the Armadillo Roadside Memorial Award goes to L
for whittling.
Whittling can't be anything else; whittling is whittling.
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I'll reject all but d and k because all the others link to ketchup or small boats, and are therefore spurious.
d) delicate woodwork detailing
k) the creation of artworks meant to be impermanent
d...k...d...k...dee..kay...de.cay...decay! Impermanent!! That would make it K!!!
So I'll vote for D, of course.
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I like b and g but I'll go with D.
A question about the ARMil® award. Is it to be awarded to a single person (e.g., the perpetrator of i for ignoring the nothing-to-do-with-boats clue) or a category (in this case the ketchup daffinitions) and therefore to be shared among the perpetrators?
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all the others link to ketchup or small boats
All right. You got some serious spaining to do re:
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H)
L)
N)
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>A question about the ARMil® award.
yes, certainly! [or, Ž) the most/least obvious of the category abusers]
-ron obvious, asst. hogmaster®
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Well, everone knows the true daffinition is the art of covering small boats with ketchup...but that would've been too obvious, huh, ron? 
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While D is a beautifully crafted daffynition, and K is plausible, but incorrectly punctuated -- dead giveaway--... after some musing I think I'll take E
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My gut says G, 'cause woodworking 'n' ketchup just don't go together. continuing the fine art of Zappa-esque deduction so abstractly extrapolated on the other thread...right, Dub-Dub?
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A protest is gotta be more of a post than my lazy-ass version of a guess...I liked D, but then I saw N and I did all I could to resist, but. 
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all the others link to ketchup or small boats
...You got some serious spaining to do re: A),B),E),G),H),L),N)
You would be right, except that I adapted the adjective "all" according to the principle of my erstwhile Math 11 professor* who once redefined "many" as "that means, 'one or more' "...
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and here I had gotten as far as a) astral projection <> sailing by dead reckoning, b) food preparation <> ketchup, g) the hangman's craft <> sailing through the Water Gate (by dead reckoning?), h) making lunch <> ketchup, ..
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Jack Ketch the hangman does sound familiar so I'll go for g.
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Jack Ketch the hangman does sound familiar so I'll go for g. Copy ket(ch)!
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As an old sailor (and having sailed a ketch) I can only go for i
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I have been scoring rather too well of late, so shall make a dtermined effort to restore the natural order by choosing N, despite a hankering for G.
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G - I reckon it's different (from boats an' ketchup anyways) and kinda plausible. (though I was tempted by 'a')
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i hope i didn't overslept anything.. if i can still give an answer mine is I. although ketch IMHO is rather double masted O_o.. but whatever.. yeah and O seems inviting 
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"O" sure is appealing, but I'm going with the majority (I think - didn't count!) and saying Gee.
(I'm not too late am I? had to be away on le weekend, as the French say)
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Now that my punctuation has given me away, all I can hope for is a good guess. Let's try D. I do know the difference between i.e. and e.g. It must've been the late hour.
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I guess I'll vote for I, but I really wanted to vote "O".
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Hmmmmmmm. Double Hmmmmmmmm. I think I'll vote for L just 'cause no one has.
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Howdy, YAWL.......
I mustard all my brain power and decided on M.
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...if my breath were any more bated I'd have a line of whitebat, place and tripletal swimming through the snow to my door.
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I'll support 'k', because I've never heard a name given to this collection of artistic activities, and if there isn't one there should be.
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"...if my breath were any more bated I'd have a line of whitebat, place and tripletal swimming through the
snow to my door."
Hah! I get it! I think...
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I'm not kvetchcrafting but when are we going to get the answers?
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well, the dictionary answer is (g), which some of our British players knew from Jack Ketch, who was indeed an infamous hangman.
as to the rest of the results, I'm a bit strapped for time now but I'll get to it eventually..
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G!...hey! I win!
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...sssh. Mr. Bingley, please don't press Mr. tsuwm further, I think he is in jail.
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yes, better hope Jack Ketch doesn't get me before I can steal some computer time in the jail's library
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let's hope your ringleader knows when all 23 have been in the switch room at least once
-- Ms Mincemeat, she whose post was too subtle to be considered 'pressing'
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Hey! What's all the whisperin' around here?
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Shhh! You'll wake the baby.
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I know we've had whiteout conditions lately, but that's blown out to sea now.
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http://www.hangman.info/hangman2.htmhas a few illuminating things to say about Jack Ketch... EDIT: caution: R-rating - violence
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I've been following your puns around. Great stuff! and welcome to the board.
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I've been following your puns around. On the trail again, eh? wofa, thanks for that link...I think.
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Ketch as ketch can, I always say...
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Thanks for the link, wofa! Executioners used to extort payment form their executionees under the threat of not being swift and painless?  That's certainly some sort of milestone in the utter depravity of the human spirit.
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here, finally, are the compiled results:
a) the art of astral projection, causing one's spirit to leave one's body and appear to other people [Bingley]
b) the Wiccan practice of casting spells to ensure the proper functioning of food preparation [Faldage]
c) the art of sauce making [bonzai]
d) delicate woodwork detailing such as may be found decorating pews and pillars in churches and cathedrals; the art of carving such detailing [mg] wofa, Faldage, slithy
e) an ancient Masonic body of metaphysical knowledge attained through the practice of necromancy and ritualistic chant [ASp] milum, ASp
f) the art of making ketchup [musick]
g) the hangman's craft (from Jack Ketch, a famous London executioner, c. 1663-1686) [Forgotten English®] W-O'N, Jackie, Bingley, bonzai, mg
h) a type of strong brown paper used esp. for making lunch bags or sacks (also formerly, used to refer to a sackcloth garment worn by an offender when doing public penance) [joe friday] TEd
i) the process of manufacturing masts for single-masted sailing vessels used primarily in light craft obstacle maneuvers (handling) and racing [Wordwind] Rubrick, birdfeed, rav, Jeepers
j) the art of drawing with tomato sauce. [consuelo]
k) the creation of artworks meant to be impermanent, i.e. sculptures made of sand, ice, or foam [slithy] dxb
l) whittling [wofa] consuelo,
m) cooking with ketchup [WO'N] Coffeebean
n) Scandinavian cabinetry making [Jeepers] Wordwind, musick, sjm
o) If it isn't boat building it sure as hell ought to be. [TEd]
this round was much too easy, as the actual def'n amassed five(5) votes plus dxb defined it exactly (garnering bonus points).
coming a near second in the voting was Wordwind's one-masted entry--this after my pointed hint that it had nothing to do with two-masted ships (which is the def'n of a ketch). I don't remember being that devious in the past that you should expect this. on the other hand, I had a similar def'n in hand until Wordwind blew it away with hers.
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Never say never!
Hey, I got three votes for my daffynition! Not bad, first time out....[pleased-with-myself-e]
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tsuwm,
You didn't mean you wouldn't ever play Hogwash(registered) again, did you? Oh, please, say it ain't the truth, Joe!
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