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#194893 12/13/2010 5:15 AM
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bokeh, choose one:

a) a spidery, wrought-iron storage device used by north African nomads to keep their cooking vessels off the ground when not in use

b) a form of massage based on the shiatsu style from Japan

c) repr. a vulgar pronunciation of bouquet /bəʊ 'keɪ/

d) a practice fight in which the warriors are allowed only to use bokken as a weapon against each other; originally from Japanese

e) the handhold on a camel saddle

f) a dance found at weddings in the rural areas of Morocco

g) a Japanese term used to describe the out of focus quality of a lens

h) a South African man or woman possessing or being accused of possessing malignant witchcraft

i) a short knife used by Andaman Island pygmies to carve the embouchure and finger holes of the bamboo flutes they use in ceremonial music

j) a studious pupil, generally at a religious Jewish day school

k) a retired South African rugby player who has immigrated to Canada


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AAAAhh!!! Impossibly difficult to figure this one out. Help!

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hmmm...seems to be a lot of Japanese and Tribal references...I think the Japanese ones sound more likely from what little of the language I have picked up from the Japanese I know...


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I like i.


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As do I

so therefore I

something about the Andaman Island Pygmies gets to me.


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bexter #194907 12/13/2010 4:25 PM
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>I think the Japanese ones sound more likely

that could be a very self-serving statement! : /
-joe (if you had one of those) friday

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I cast my vote for E.

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>I think the Japanese ones sound more likely

that could be a very self-serving statement! : /
-joe (if you had one of those) friday


Yes it could but I was merely voicing my opinion and I shall vote for a Japanesey one...I just haven't decided which one yet :p


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Well, there's to things. It's either vulgar or outlandish. I go for the vulgar today.C

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I'll have to a)evoke the "armil" argument and discard all multiples and b) say it sounds African, or at least Caribbean, and therefore go with H

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Well I am going with...G
(see Japanese crazy)


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bexter #194926 12/13/2010 10:05 PM
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a for me

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Me, too. A sounds wonderful.

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I turning Japanese too....I remember in the movie KILL BILL, the character played by Uma Thurman practising with a wooden sword, so I'm voting for.......B Actually replica swords from the movie became very popular.

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it looks like we be needing only votes from Faldo and beck123 to complete this round in record time (but who's keeping track?).

by the bye, I posted this under my 'normal' rubric just to remind people that I are the hogmaster® - evidently someone is upset around discovery of my use of multiple IDs; I've been using 'hogmaster' here for hogwash™ games for over five(5) years. no ruse intended.
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p.s. - Avy, "6"?? like in.. (counting..) 'f'?

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I are? We is?

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I'ma go with D

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm


p.s. - Avy, "6"?? like in.. (counting..) 'f'?

Am.

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm


p.s. - Avy, "6"?? like in.. (counting..) 'f'?

Am.


now I "am" in total befuddlement. somebody want to help me here?!

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
I'll have to a)evoke the "armil" argument and discard all multiples and b) say it sounds African, or at least Caribbean, and therefore go with H
I agree with your conclusion and I hope Avy will not let her vote dangle on our 6th sense for too long.

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Don't start without me!!! I vote for E, because there's only one among them that I'm SURE is wrong, and all the others sound like gibberish to me!


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Originally Posted By: tsuwm


now I "am" in total befuddlement.

You is not. It am "F".
Note to self: do not pop into awad with mind/2.

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okay! all the players have voted.. results coming on the morrow.

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I failed......no-one voted for mine, not even me.

I have looked up word (couldn't wait)

WOW there is so much out there about BOKEH how come I never heard it before. An interesting morning looking at pictures.


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