#76086
07/18/2002 7:38 PM
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ALL BETS ARE OFF THIS GAME IS CLOSED. The Hogmaster is further instructed to destroy all definitions pertinent to the corrupted game by burning them to ashes in a metal stove and to send a formal note of apology to the person whose definition was defamed.
dear ___,
boy, you really had me fooled. I had no clue that you were milum.
[how's *that* for a cheap shot]
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#76087
07/18/2002 9:41 PM
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veteran
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walks into a drugstore and says to the woman behind the ocunter
Is an ocunter a rough-and-(un)ready form of greeter, TEd? [innocence]
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#76088
07/18/2002 11:31 PM
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Is Sigmund hiding around here anywhere? Maybe under the ________?
Ditto, Fish: [innocence]
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#76089
07/19/2002 3:52 AM
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Whitman and his cute dog milo, made fun of my entry in direct violation of...
"Bow-Arf!"
Oops, Milo...did ya hear that? Now ya really gone and done it! Doggie Milo just changed his "J" vote back to G! But he's still smiling! ;)
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#76090
07/21/2002 6:41 PM
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well, that was an odd round. as most of you have prolly sussed by now, a retiarius was (f) a Roman gladiator who carried a net with which to entangle his adversary.
number "i", which was "quashed for coming too close for comfort" was actually submitted by teD and read something like this in its original form: A net of metal rings used as a weapon by a gladiator. imagine my initial confusion when teD then proceded to vote for something other than "f".
the following exchange eventually unmuddied the waters, somewhat:
teD: I just voted and then went and looked up retiarius. Didn't I send you a definition that said it was the net used by a gladiator? I am SO confused.
tsuwm: [paraphrasing] yep, that's the one that was quashed. so how come you didn't vote for the actual def'n? gosh, being hogmasterŪ is sure a load of laughs.
teD: The reason i did NOT vote for I was because I could not remember exactly what I wrote (and of course we don;t have copies of our own PMs here).
But I want to assure you that I did NOT know what retiarius really was and I used the root word rete to come up with the definition I sent you. I was gobsmacked to find out how close I was to reality.
I voted for N because I figured that F was what I had sent or was very close to it, and I knew that F wasn't right because I MADE THE DAMNED THING UP!!!
So I guessed N.
Yes, being Hogwash master IS a load of laughs. Of course being a player is too!
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#76091
07/21/2002 10:13 PM
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Special to milum:
OK. You've told us what "Bow-wow" means...and what "Arf! Arf!" means...but what about a plain old "Bark!" What does it mean when a dog just hands you a direct, incisive "Bark!"?
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#76092
07/22/2002 9:13 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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I thought the only dogs that said that were the ones called Marcus, and only when they have a head-cold.
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#76093
07/22/2002 11:44 AM
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OK. You've told us what "Bow-wow" means...and what "Arf! Arf!" means...but what about a plain old "Bark!" What does it mean when a dog just hands you a direct, incisive "Bark!"?
Depends on the context.
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#76094
07/22/2002 6:59 PM
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OK. You've told us what "Bow-wow" means...and what "Arf! Arf!" means...but what about a plain old "Bark!" What does it mean when a dog just hands you a direct, incisive "Bark!"? - wordwindIt depends on the context. - jimthedogOk, sweet ailantis blossom of awad, jimthedog and cute little milo and little cute me admit that our occasional bouts of ferocious barking amount to little more than what you females would call a hissy-fit, but the roar of a mighty lion is but a whimper when we dogs growl low with portent of gashing gnawing things to come, and... Grrrrrrrrrrrr! 
Damit tsuwm! Did milum's definition get a vote or not? Grrrrrrrrr...
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#76095
07/22/2002 8:05 PM
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"Damit tsuwm! Did milum's definition get a vote or not? Grrrrrrrrr..."
What's the opposite of "Yip! Yip!" in dogtalk?
Bark regards,
WordWhelp
Edit: milum, the correct spelling is ailanthus, aka "Tree of Heaven," my personal sentiments about said tree aside...
Edit the Edit:
Main Entry: ai·lan·thus
Pronunciation: A-'lan(t)-th&s
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Ambonese ai lanito, literally, tree (of) heaven
Date: 1807
: any of a small Asian genus (Ailanthus of the family Simaroubaceae, the ailanthus family) of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark, pinnate leaves, and terminal panicles of ill-scented greenish flowers
This tree can break up concrete, no joke.
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#76096
07/22/2002 8:22 PM
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seconding my dear friend WW, here, Milum, there ain't no such thing as sweet scented ailanthus blossum.. the flowers smell very much like burnt starch.. (skilled cooks might not know this smell) Any one who has ever managed to leave potatoes or rice, or wheat cereal over a flame.. and had it burn, knows the smell.. its not quite as bad as burning rubber, but its pretty bad.
ill-scented greenish flowers is a pretty mild description.
and while the chinese do value them, they are considered weed trees in most parts of the US and about as welcome as kudzu.
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#76097
07/22/2002 10:23 PM
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Oh-oh of troy, if you didn't like what I wrote about your dear friend wordwind, you are gonna hate what I'm gonna write about you and your good friend fishonabike over in Announcements and Information. But remember of troy, you know that I think that you are a fore-standing asset of this board, and as well, I think that the wit, charm, and, notwithstanding his anatomically impossible name, the intellectual honesty of fishonabike is apparent in every one, except maybe one or two, of his posts. But alas, I am a egg-sucking cur, and sucking eggs is my calling. ~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~> 
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#76098
07/22/2002 10:47 PM
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I am a egg-sucking cur
I'll say! promise to post something, and i scurry over to I & A, to see what treat is in store, and find nothing..
you're right! i hate what you said about me!
wicked man! makes a promise, get a girl all excited, and then fails to deliver! What ever did i do to deserve to treated so cruelly?
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#76099
07/23/2002 12:22 AM
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wicked man! makes a promise, get a girl all excited, and then fails to deliver! What ever did i do to deserve to treated so cruelly? - of troy I'll tell you what you did Helen, down in Movement of Water in Miscellany you wrote a short piece on Little Neck Bay. Wicked man or egg-sucking cur, no creature with half a ear could write a disparaging word to the writer of that wonderful impressionistic prose. Well maybe I can. But it's going to take me at least a week to get mad again. [__________________________  ________________________]
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#76100
07/23/2002 7:55 PM
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#76101
07/23/2002 11:43 PM
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Wordwind--that's me!--got as many votes as the OED. Tra-la! And I didn't even cheat like the author of J, which is the letter eye incognito.
My definitions rarely get votes, although the asp voted for one of mine a while back.
Now what to do to celebrate? I think I'll take the OED out for a drink.
Bourbon regards,
WordWinner! forgetting my Southern upbringing to always conduct myself modestly
P.S. This was really an easy contest to figure out in retrospect. It hit me last week: retiarius. reticulated. netted. How did so many of us miss the "ret" part? Rhet Butler wasn't called "Rhet" for nothin'!
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