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#76056 07/15/02 03:43 AM
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they're both about the same, really

Lessee...monk, bird, dinosaur...pretty much...


#76057 07/15/02 07:25 AM
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It has to be F


(and I'm not a new player, O mighty tsuwm, I've been playing this game since the beginning - I had a cumulative score of about 4, I think - just beating Max the Magnificent!)


#76058 07/15/02 09:42 AM
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I just found that Spider-Man is the same age as me.
And that's not the only thing we have in common.. *

K


* I spend a lot of my working day climbing walls, too.

Edit: Oh oh - can I amend the definition slightly, from "original name" to "AKA name" ?? Pretty please?








#76059 07/15/02 10:46 AM
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None of them seemed right to me. I wasn't tempted by a single one this time, although I think all those definitions are good enough to deserve words. Just not retiarius. Retiarius needs a more companionable definition.

All that said, I liked one definition a great deal, with a single reservation. I wish the Fertile Crescent part had been left out. If it had, then I think it would have been a perfect definition for retiarius:

a yellow calcite that forms on metallic artifacts from the Fertile Crescent when exposed to acidic liquids

I can't remember its letter, but that's the definition I'll vote for. I'll come back and add the letter in a minute.


Edit: L I vote for "L."

#76060 07/15/02 12:33 PM
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I don't really think it is C, but I like the definition so much that I'll vote for it anyway.


#76061 07/15/02 12:42 PM
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My dart lands on.....G


#76062 07/15/02 03:08 PM
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I'll go with M, it sounds just about worthless enough to be right.


#76063 07/15/02 03:31 PM
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#76064 07/15/02 05:01 PM
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Uh...Bill, its been a while since you've played a good ole game of Hogwash hasn't it. The rules have been changed, now you have to send your best-guess definition to tsuwm in secret.
Yes, I agree it doesn't seem fair, but bad rules are still rules.
Milo


#76065 07/15/02 07:22 PM
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Hi Milo! My Milo wants to say "hi!" ("arf! arf!") There...now he's happy!


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