#86978
11/14/2002 3:29 PM
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choose one:
a) describes the facial expression of one who has a nasal hair tickling the side of his/her nose
b) the name for the mechanism that produces several graph lines at once as may be found in a lie detector, a seismograph, etc.
c) an Italian version of chili, somewhat similar to the Tex-Mex variety but substituting cannellini for kidney beans and featuring traditional Italian herbs, including basil, oregano, and garlic
d) also psylli,(sil-I) more often psyllic(SIL-ik) ceremonial snake handling
e) a type of mathematical puzzle popular in the 19th century
f) the wrapping at the base of a double-reed that assures a snug fit onto the bocal of the bassoon or oboe
g) descriptive of tiny, eyelash-like protrusions on lower marine life forms
h) to use as the outside indicator of an Enigma message the letters appearing in the windows at the end of the enciphering of the previous message, thereby revealing the finished position for message and, in certain circumstances, facilitating the determination of its true setting and wheel-order (from the initials of the girlfriend of a German operator, who found them easy to remember)
i) (slang) insanity induced by lead poisoning
j) a Coast Guard officer
k) a battlefield formation used with great success by the Roman legions during Caesar's earliest campaigns
l) a meadow strewn with flints (These meadows are found on chalk downs and are used for grazing sheep. The soil is too shallow for crops and the grass insuffiently lush to fatten cattle adequately. Originally was two words, "cill lye". Cills being igneous rock intrusions and lye being the old word, or one of them, for a meadow.)
m) an obsolete variant of the word silly
n) the decorative, frilled hem of a slip that is designed to peep from under the skirt of a latin dancer
o) a hairlike tail or end
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the bonus challenge: find the common thread
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the usual suspects: consuelo, dxb, musick, Wordwind, Jazzo, ASp, ron obvious, Fiberbabe, WO'N, slithy toves, RC, Bingley, milum, dodyskin, and a really obscure dictionary
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#86979
11/14/2002 5:43 PM
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I shall fall straight into the polynymic one's trap, and vote for my usual grade in Hogwash rounds: F
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#86980
11/14/2002 6:10 PM
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#86981
11/14/2002 6:51 PM
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#86982
11/14/2002 9:53 PM
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#86983
11/14/2002 10:02 PM
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H for its sheer preposterousness.  common "thread": You want me to obviousize, tsuwm?
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#86984
11/14/2002 10:58 PM
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That's my role this week.
But I'm holdin' back; I'm tuckin' it in...right beneath the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin.
I also can't make up my mind about the definitions. They're all correct this time. Except one. The others are all correct.
Will be back with my choice after I blindfold myself and point randomly at the list.
Beard regards,
WordWolf
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#86985
11/14/2002 11:19 PM
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common "thread": You want me to obviousize, tsuwm? ~ asp Well if you won't, Annatypic, I will. In fact there are two major themes and one minor theme running through these definitions. A) the hairlike boys............. five. B) the military boys............. five. C) the snake charmer boys... three. And I am so happy that two of you have voted for my definition. ___ I, myself, will probably vote for the occam razor outside these groupings " M". But I'm still waiting to see what the big boys do. ___________________________________________ 
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#86986
11/14/2002 11:51 PM
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Now I think they're all wrong. I would reveal my reasoning, but that wouldn't be very sporting, would it? One of them I'd hoped would the correct one, but then I spotted something in the definition that told me it was a fake. Drat. It would have been a great definition for a word well-needed.
So, I will side with simplicity, with the fact that I have no (i.e., zero) idea what the truth is here, and with the apparent thread that ran among many of the definitions. I cast my vote for:
O
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#86987
11/15/2002 3:20 AM
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#86988
11/15/2002 3:42 AM
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Oh, what the hell: O...make that a Jazz- O!
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#86989
11/15/2002 3:45 AM
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Bingley
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#86990
11/15/2002 10:21 AM
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well, g) gets my vote (but whoever came up with a) was inspired!)
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#86991
11/15/2002 10:48 AM
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#86992
11/15/2002 11:05 AM
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Although I know H is the sentimental (well about as sentimental as germans get) favorite, I can't wait any longer ( I still don't know what a sennight is) I gotta, I just gotta be the first to vote for D . A word to the wise: Know your greek roots. -
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#86993
11/15/2002 11:08 AM
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Do I get to vote? Fer sher.
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#86994
11/15/2002 11:46 AM
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f) sounds the right note.
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#86995
11/15/2002 3:18 PM
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How about Eeeeeeee (by gum!)
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#86996
11/15/2002 5:29 PM
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N - Pardon me as I skirt my reasons for voting here.
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#86997
11/15/2002 5:49 PM
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#86998
11/16/2002 11:36 AM
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Wait Pigmaster! Don't close the polls! Fishryder hasn't voted yet. Or did he get mad and quit Hogwash and life in general because the last Hogwash game was rigged? _ 
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#86999
11/16/2002 11:47 AM
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Wasn't rigged. You jes' didn't get a single vote other than you own, milum. You shore know how to pout most pontificapoutedly.
That winner won fair 'n' square.
Who was the winner last time thereabouts?
Oh, yeah. I won it.
Bragging regards,
WordWinner
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#87000
11/16/2002 2:48 PM
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because the last Hogwash game was rigged? Hey, they was only usin' Alabama rules!...so what's wrong with that?
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#87001
11/16/2002 3:24 PM
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Hey, they was only usin' Alabama rules!...so what's wrong with that? ~ WO'N
Not true, Carpetbagger, in Alabama Hogwash the Game is banned. It flies in the face of all that we hold dear.
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#87002
11/16/2002 4:19 PM
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I read a book about code breaking recently, and I remember the author's talking about how the English broke a code because of the German operator's "cheating" by using repeatedly a setting that should have been changed more often, and I don;t remember if it was cilli, but I'm still gonna vote H.
TEd
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#87003
11/17/2002 4:00 PM
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I think I have votes from everyone (of the entrants) except consuelo. not to place any undue pressure..
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#87004
11/17/2002 4:36 PM
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Don't wait on her tswum, Consuelo, of all people, knows our consuetude about the prompt return of all Hogwash votes. consuetude (KON-swe-tyood) n. custom or convention.
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#87005
11/17/2002 5:54 PM
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Unless she can find a liberry or cyber-café, I suspect consuelo will be out of the endless loop for a few days.
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#87006
11/20/2002 2:14 AM
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well, I'm a gonna post the results tomorrow, as this thread has definitely gone code blue..
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#87007
11/21/2002 11:13 AM
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well, I'm a gonna post the results tomorrow, as this thread has definitely gone code blue.." ~ H-master a few days ago. Screw, blue, tyrue. One monkey don't stop no show. "This ain't no "Valley Girl Hogwash"
this is "The Hogwash That Went On Forever". We the erstwhile players of "Hogwash" have unalienable rights to expect a prompt and fair judgement of our lies and definitions. The only way this delay makes sense is that your "Valley Girl" is Consuelo's persona. Don't make me form a committee.
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#87008
11/21/2002 2:40 PM
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excuse me, I was too busy learning to count by ordinals yesterday [x-thread] to concern myse'f with obscure words.
you should try it; maybe then you could tell the difference between 'two days' and 'a few days'.
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#87009
11/21/2002 3:19 PM
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Is 'zat a NO! dear tswum, you leave me no recourse...I hereby withdraw my definition from this contest and hereby apologize to all those who saw fit to give me vote. I will now retire and consider further action, but let this be known; I take affront and feel personally violated by the heavy-handed conduct of this Hogwash, it is the stuff of...worms!
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#87010
11/21/2002 3:46 PM
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I take affront and feel personally violated
Aw yer jes ticked cuz they spelt "hawg" wrong.
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#87011
11/21/2002 4:54 PM
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I'd suggest you conduct the next one, Milum, but I'm put in mind of my mama who always says "Be careful what you ask for!" 
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#87012
11/21/2002 5:06 PM
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Not just your Mama, AnnaS, but Emerson, too.
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#87013
11/21/2002 6:57 PM
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So is the next Hawgwarshing Alabammy bound?!
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#87014
11/21/2002 7:28 PM
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Alabammy bound?
Or either that or Alabammy Unbound, one.
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#87015
11/21/2002 7:30 PM
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I was born to be a Hogmaster. For half my adult life, ten years or so, my dream has been to be a Hogmaster like tsuwm. But no more. I am disillusioned. The Hogmaster heros who once stood as tall as the Loblolly Pines now stand lower than the the mud under the mussel shells of Dolebury Creek. ( Dolebury Creek ran through my Uncle Dan's farm near Holkes Bluff Alabama. I went there every summer when I was a kid. Boy did we have fun.) Now I find that I no longer have any interest in becoming a Hogmaster. Now I find I have no interest in anything at all. I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll just wander around from town to town doing good deeds and try to help others like me who have been taken in by slick charlatans who stole their dreams and left them broken hearted. Yeah... Or maybe... I'll find me a crack crooked trial lawyer and sue tsuwm for punitive damages and then I'll own the Hogwash copyright and then I'll change the spelling to Hawgwarsh (c.) and then I'll tell tsuwm and his suckleberry friends to take a hike. Yeah, that's what I'll do.
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#87016
11/21/2002 7:35 PM
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tell tsuwm and his suckleberry friends to take a hike
I could use more exercise.
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#87017
11/21/2002 9:12 PM
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Alabammy Unbound, one.
Alabammy Unbound, two.
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