#65008
04/22/2002 4:49 PM
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the voting week ends at midnight tonight and I still lack votes from
-teD,
-Flatlander,
-Sparteye.
I'd hate to have to extend this torture any longer.
Bingley, why don't you get the next round started?!
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#65009
04/23/2002 8:08 PM
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If not too late, I think I will also take a p.
TEd
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#65010
04/23/2002 8:38 PM
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No, dear Ted, and I think I can speak for tsuwm and all of we Hogwash particpants when I say, No Ted, for you it is never too late.  _____()_____
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#65011
04/23/2002 10:48 PM
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If not too late, I think I will also take a p.I sincerely hope it's not too late, TEd. 
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#65012
04/24/2002 11:30 AM
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Oops, sorry all. I suppose I'll go along with the crowd and take P.
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#65013
04/24/2002 1:23 PM
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I guess that closes out the (extended) voting, as Sparteye took time out from her busy schedule to tell me she didn't have time to vote(?!). now I'll need some time to compose some clever closing remarks.
(but it wasn't P)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:13:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: today's wwftd is... figgum
To: wwftd minions <tsuwm@mn.rr.com>
the worthless word for the day is: figgum
[obs] a juggler's trick(s); conjuring;
the fire-spitting trick of a carnival performer
Tay: See, he spits fire.
Pov: O no, he plays at Figgum. The Devil
is the Author of wicked Figgum.
- B. Jonson, The Devil is an Ass 1616
-tsuwm http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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#65014
04/24/2002 8:24 PM
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#65015
04/24/2002 8:46 PM
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I just thougt that I should mention that the wrong choice I made in this instance was influenced by the fact that I though the word was fiCCum, not fiGGum. But for which, I would have of course voted for (f).
I really do need a new pair of glasses. [squinting -e]
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#65016
04/24/2002 10:13 PM
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Miracle of miracles, I got this one right, and all along I thought it said "REEF KNOT," rather than figgum. Had I read it correctly I would certainly have guessed B.
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#65017
04/24/2002 10:18 PM
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Ah, and me, oh, my, I, too, misread the entry as figbit and placed a logical vote for g.
Oh, that's right. I entered a definition for figgum...never mind. I'll stop fibbum. But, heh, I got a vote! I got a vote for my entry! Oh, joy!
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#65018
04/25/2002 1:58 AM
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Me too! I got a vote! A woman's gotta vote.  I figgered it was fig  grin, I didn't know it was figgum
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#65019
04/25/2002 3:02 AM
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Well, well, put me in a red dress and pat my hiney. I was drinking and my eyes were blurred, I thought Figgum read bondsmaid, which was the real word left out of the Oxford English Dictionary. Ha Ha Ha ,what an addlepate am I.
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#65020
04/25/2002 3:38 AM
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#65021
04/25/2002 4:00 AM
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suddenly every man and his dog feels the need to extract the michael by protesting various ludicrous misreadingsYes Max, but don'tcha think, all in good humour? Oh yeah, I figgumed myself once, but you know, somehow it just wasn't the same.
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#65022
04/25/2002 4:40 AM
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#65023
04/25/2002 11:42 AM
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A task at which I will cheerfully join and and backstop you, Max. It is a task at which I would humbly suggest that I have great natural talent.
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#65024
04/25/2002 2:21 PM
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>A look at the scores will show how assiduously I have worked to spare others the ignominy of coming last.
not to worry, Max. it seems that cumulative scoring somehow fell into desuetude three or four rounds back, and I haven't found the time to score even this round, which is just shameful in as much as it probably set a new standard for precipitation. suffice it to say, for the nonce, that a BIG win was wracked up by milum, with a clever definition and an equally clever bluff. thanks all.
oh, btw. I *meant to post the word fylfot.
(by unofficial count, F (the correct def'n) got three votes; and P got 5 votes plus 1 self-vote plus 2 late votes plus 17 mail-in votes with postage due plus 37 PM spam haiku votes plus 42 votes from someone named Chad plus...)
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#65025
04/26/2002 10:39 PM
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Thus sprake the Inscruwtable tswum:
(by unofficial count, F (the correct def'n) got three votes; and P got 5 votes plus 1 self-vote plus 2 late votes plus 17 mail-in votes with postage due plus 37 PM spam haiku votes plus 42 votes from someone named Chad plus...)
Now that there's a quotable quote!
Bon mot regards,
WordsWow!
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#65026
04/30/2002 3:53 PM
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We ever gonna get the final tally? Or at least who submitted what?
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#65027
05/01/2002 12:35 AM
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My entry was g. <g> someone want to check me for figgum while I'm grinning? I got one vote. Thank you, Mister Milo. [curtsy-e]
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#65028
05/01/2002 1:21 AM
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okay, okay, okay -- I can take three hints.
caradea - 2 votes
a) A fine-tuning key below the bridge and fingerboard of a stringed instrument.
TheFallibleFiend
b) A knot commonly used for rigging sails in the 17th century.
Jackie - 1 vote
c) A hybrid tree
JosieWales
d) The colloquial generalism used by morticians for all of the body waste that has to be removed from a body before it can be embalmed.
Wordwind - 1 vote
e) A striated body tissue arranged in segmental bands consisting of long cells that contract when stimulated and produce motion in arthropoda
OED/Webster's New 20th C. - 4 votes (mav voted by PM)
f) The fire-spitting trick of a carnival performer.
consuelo - 1 vote
g) The residue that remains caught between your teeth after eating a dried fig
AnnaStrophic - 1 vote
h) [chiefly Brit.] 18th-century vernacular term for human head, brain (c.f. noggin)
TEd Remington - 3 votes
j) A jot or tittle; something very small.
Jazzoctopus
k) A "fold" in the shell structure of an atom, causing a disruption in the functioning of the subatomic particles.
Bobyoungbalt - 1 vote
l) An arbirary or fictitious entry or figure used to juggle accounts so as to produce a desired total or result.
Sparteye
m) A gelatinous substance, made from agricultural byproducts, used by Mennonites to lubricate farm machinery.
wordcrazy
n) A thickened turpentine mostly used in oil paints, so named because of its color which resembles a ripe fig.
tsuwm - 1 vote
o) 1) A product of the imagination 2) something totally illusory.
milum - 5 votes + 1 own vote + 2 late votes = 5
p) [Printing] something omitted.
After 70 years and 414,825 words defined, is was dicovered that the word figgum was left out of the Oxford English Dictionary. James Murray simply misplaced it. The original definition, now obsolete, is - a pear tree.
WhitmanO'Neill
r) 19th Century American colloquialism referring to suspicously erroneous bookkeeping (i.e. That's a bunch of figgum!).
Flatlander - 1 vote [Max cast the 1st vote here, thereby dooming this to 1 vote for the balance of the polling]
s) A mischievous spirit in Scottish folklore
belMarduk - 1 vote + 1 own vote
t) [Hatmaking term] The starched swath of material that surrounds the crown of the hat, near the rim, on which is attached the decorative accessories (e.g. feather or flowers)
kudos to maverick and bobyoungbalt and chemengX and Hyla for guessing (or knowing, in mav's case) the correct def'n
15 participants, 17 def'ns, 26 voters - I think these all set new standards. great round, everyone!
(hogmaster®)
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#65029
05/01/2002 12:59 PM
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So, what I quickly distill from these results is that:
- Mav cheated.
- Max should refrain from voting till the last minute.
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#65030
05/01/2002 1:16 PM
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#65031
05/01/2002 2:24 PM
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- Max should refrain from voting till the last minute.No, Max should refrain from voting until after the results are posted! The Only WO'N!
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#65032
05/01/2002 2:43 PM
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>Mav cheated.
I know that ASp is just joshing, but for the neophytes, in the normal course of events (scoring-wise), "knowing" the correct definition is perfectly okay and bob's your uncle; looking up the def'n is wot brings down the roth of the hogmasters®.
(j. roth)
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