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Posted By: tsuwm hogwash™ - LAST CALL - 09/03/01 11:02 PM
æolotropy; or, the wind beneath our wings…
choose one:
a) a sudden change in wind direction

b) an embarrassing condition suffered by ancient aircraft and by Icarus wherein one's wings drop off

c) existing in a state of suspension caused by wind; applicable to germination of certain flora

d) a change in weather caused by winds blowing onto or off the mountains

e) the evolutionary process by which limbs become wings

f) bombast, logorrhea. from Aeolean, windy, and tropus, rhetorical figure

g) the tendency in plants to grow upwards, as opposed to growing along the ground (agoratropy)

h) in physics, the change in the direction of the flow of a system of vapors created by an increase in the amount of alcohol injected into a rotating, highly specific laboratory furnace

i) the flight of time

j) the process which enabled early amphibians to breathe air for longer periods and make the transition to fully developed lungs

k) change of electrical, optical, or other physical qualities consequent upon change of position; the opposite of isotropy

l) the process of water particles from breath condensing on glass

m) the amount of wind energy in the weather system

n) the change in the pigmentation of arboreal foliage attributed to the turning of season from summer to autumn


Posted By: Max Quordlepleen - 09/03/01 11:47 PM
Posted By: Keiva Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/03/01 11:51 PM
Tsuwm: Congratulations on breaking the carpal barrier!

Posted By: wordcrazy Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 12:46 AM
I hesitate, but nevertheless please put me down forA

Posted By: Bobyoungbalt Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 03:55 AM
The only one I can't posiively eliminate or write off as total BS is F, so I'll go with that.

Posted By: squid Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 08:06 AM
I'm pretty up in the air on this one, but I'll take C.

Posted By: rodward Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 09:36 AM
Since nobody posted the real definition (the method by which ISPs such as AOL make it even harder for users by using obscure characters in their addresses) I wind up having to pick (eeny-meeny...) E.
Rod

Posted By: TEd Remington Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 04:28 PM
Oh! K.

Posted By: maverick Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 05:08 PM
A

Posted By: jimthedog Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 05:55 PM
k.

Posted By: Fiberbabe Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 06:05 PM
It's either the right answer, or it's a brilliant ploy to capture votes. I'll take K.

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 07:24 PM
Gee...I'll take G.

Posted By: Chemeng1992 Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 07:57 PM
I like N. Don't remember from my days in physics (although I probably would have skipped over that one)

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: hogwash™ by Carpal Tunnel! - 09/04/01 09:17 PM
Tsuwm! I just noticed! Carpal Tunnel the First! Is there light at the end of that Syndrome? A strange beyond-Pooh-Bah designation, indeed! remember, titles are just for fun, folks!

Posted By: Jazzoctopus Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 09:43 PM
E is for Evolution.

Posted By: Hyla Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/04/01 10:58 PM
[cue scratchy Dylan font] "A change in the weather is known to be extreme, but what's the use of changing [guesses] in mid-stream..."

I'll go with G

Posted By: Bingley Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/05/01 09:14 AM
C.

Bingley
Posted By: paulb Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/05/01 12:37 PM
G for me

Posted By: Flatlander Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/05/01 01:01 PM
K is just mundane enough to be right. The others are too... flighty.

Posted By: RhubarbCommando Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/05/01 01:59 PM
I'm torn between c) and f) - but as the definition in f) is what I suffer from, and as diseases are always more manageable when you can put a name to them, I'll go for
F

Posted By: Rapunzel Re: hogwash™ - VOTE NOW - 09/06/01 12:05 AM
K

Posted By: Vernon Compton Re: hogwash? - VOTE NOW - 09/06/01 01:15 AM
K

Posted By: Max Quordlepleen - 09/09/01 09:23 PM
Posted By: tsuwm Re: hogwash™ Did I miss the results? (NM) - 09/10/01 02:55 AM
no, max -- I merely left an important bit of data in my other computer. (an alternate definition, if you must know)
before I'm done nearly everyone will score in this round.
-joe (I'll kill this game yet) bfstplk

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