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EDIT:
Freshet being not as obscure as I once thought it was, I have decided to cancel this round. (Note to self: never play Scrabble with this crowd.) I will try to find another, more suitable word.
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Ai-ee, Alex--you may have to cancel this one. If I know a word, surely everybody does. I'll PM you with what I think it is, though, in case I'm wrong.
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Well I got one other hint from someone that they knew the correct definition but also suggesting we play on.
If anyone thinks the word is not obscure enough then I can come up with another one.
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With me, that makes three who know it, plus Alex. But it'd be fun anyway.
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A word I come across but never use.
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Sorry, but I know this word as well. However, as I'm leaving these shores on 17 December, don't mind me.
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Ai-ee, Alex--you may have to cancel this one. If I know a word, surely everybody does.
Thanks for confirming that I really am nobody.
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Max sez "Thanks for confirming that I really am nobody."
But you are OUR nobody and we love you.
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Max sez "Thanks for confirming that I really am nobody."
But you are OUR nobody and we love you.
I am also, of course, proof of the old truism:
Nobody's perfect.
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some here may have only an inkling what this means, but I think most would be able to pick the multiply-choiced correct def'n. my thinking is that the only way to play a word such as this is to leave out the real deal and let people vote for the best phoney.
..or, perhaps there would be enough armils® to confuse things and allow inclusion of the dictionary def'n.
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I have decided to allow freshet to take early retirement. See edited version of initial post, above. I will try to come up with another word but if anyone else has one then by all means go ahead with it.
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Polishing the razorback
[propping up hand in the back row, waving wildly-e]
Oh! Teacher, teacher...pick meeeeeeee! I know what this is...
KIELBASA 
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Double thanks to AW! First, for proposing a game. And second, for withdrawing a word which would not likely work ... and doing so with such grace and style. Well done.
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I didn't know the word, but I'd never admit it.
In these parts, where a drinking fountain is a bubbla, chourico is often used instead of kielbasa.
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People actually call water fountains after sausages?!?!? (She said, relating chourico to chorizo.) WHY????
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'Sorry for the sloppy wording.
I was speaking of two unrelated things.
A bubbla is a Rhode Island drinking fountain.
Chourico is a type of Portuguese sausage.
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D'OH! Keilbasa...Polish...razorback. [smacking forehead e]
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D'OH! Keilbasa...Polish...razorback. [smacking forehead e]
And please note that you did not change the pronunciation of "polish" just because you capitalized it.
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sometimes, I just don't understand. but I'm learning that that's ok.
so no need to explain.
formerly known as etaoin...
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I'd tell you what the car wax did to the furniture wax, but I don't do polish jokes.
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sometimes, I just don't understand. but I'm learning that that's ok.
so no need to explain.
Sometimes? You're doing better than me, my friend!
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Keilbasa is Polish sausage. Sausage is made from pigs. A razorback is a pig. Dang city-dwellers...[/mutter]
P.S.--and if you don't get the Polish ref., you're on your own!
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Keilbasa is Polish sausage. Sausage is made from pigs. A razorback is a pig. Dang city-dwellers...[/mutter]
P.S.--and if you don't get the Polish ref., you're on your own!
I thought a razorback was a whale or sumpin', and that, ergo, kielbasa was a japonese sausage.
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Jambonese, more like. 
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oooooh, she's got TEdonitis!
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Keilbasa is Polish sausage. Sausage is made from pigs. A razorback is a pig. Dang city-dwellers...[/mutter]
Umm, I was under the impression, perhaps erroneously, that Louisville was a city. Are you now going to tell us that it is a but a hamlet surrounded by pig farms?
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> a hamlet surrounded by pig farms?
yeah, we kneed to know!
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Shoat, I'll squeal--don't go off yer hogshead! Rooting through my memory trough, I sow I've come up with 3 souse-ifactory answers: 1.) I visited my Uncle Bennett's farm in Tennessee a whole lot; 2.) every weekday morning for most of my childhood, the radio station my parents listened to would broadcast the report from the Bourbon Stock Yards as we ate breakfast; and 3.) Arkansas. Clear as mud?
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