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I'll take "O".

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B would be believable if I knew what pastern meant.

E is just so enticing, but the armilaceousness of it puts me off ever so slightly.

I is interesting. If I had the slightest idea what it's supposed to mean I'd definitely vote for it.

S has the short criterion down solid.

So, S it is.

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Hmm...what to do? I know! I'll try the Faldage method!

A ~ is adorable
B ~ is so beautiful (in a sad way)
C ~ is a cutie full of charms
D ~ You’re a darling and...
E ~ You’re exciting
F ~ You’re a feather in my arms
G ~ You look good to me and
H ~ You’re so...

WAIT! A feather in my arms! That's it!
Get it..."feather"..."sea gul". Co-incidence? I think not.


Hogmaster, if you please, vote me (milo) a "F".

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If it ain't E it oughta be

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F-babe! How ya doin', kiddo? Great to see you!

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UCAL:
e) an irregular closed plane figure of ten sides [decagon], fancifully named by math students at UC/Berkeley, formed by drawing lines on a map connecting the ten institutions of the U.Cal. system
j) a humorous description of someone who has graduated from the University of California and has immediately retired to the safe haven of further academic study, implying retreat from competitive strife; tt appears to be an original coinage by Dave Eggers in his novel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
m) the name of an award given by each campus of the University of California to the local restaurant considered to serve the best spaghetti Bolognese; the awards are audited by the well known Hungarian gourmet, writer and restaurant guide editor, Egon Ronay.
p) (derog.) one educated on the West coast of the United States. (from University California Oregon)

Oh, the perils of a large wash – any one of these might have tempted, but collectively they show their shallow West Coast blondness.

Critters:
d) algae species that thrives only at the deepest, darkest levels of the sea
f) ocean gull: a wader
u) a mythical animal of Northern European legend, it has: the horn of a unicorn, the body of a caribou, the head of a lynx, the wings of an eagle, and the legs of an onager.
v) rare: a group of three or more baby mice or rats whose tails have become inextricably knotted in the nest

Well, Milo, is it an ocean glider or a wader? Or none of the above?

Math(s):
c) the minor diameter of a regular polyhedron
i) the metric of the helicoplastic membrane at apex.

Doesn’t add up for me.

Chemistry:
o) the residue remaining after boilng away the water from any mixture of substances.
h) the uranious sand employed by ancient glass-makers
l) the compound structure of naphthalene, and naphthalene derivative atoms.
r) a compound of uranium, used in estimating the age of a sample via the carbon-dating process
s) a crucible
t) the original softening bath crystals; from the mineral composition.

As Fong says the brevity of (s) tempts. No, I hate Stinks. Sorry, Doctors!

Phonic booms:
b) a deformity of sheep pasterns seen in newborn lambs
n) old English word for soapwort, whence brand name Calgon.

Sounds like leg? – pull the udder one! OE+US brand name = no thanks ;]

Greeks:
g) a neighbor whose house is burning; from Virgil
k) line of verse that cues the chorus to intervene in ancient Greek tragedy.

Don’t remember ever coming across that in studying tragedy. I’ve never read any Virgil but it seems too improbable – hm, tsuwm’s kind of word, even.

So that leaves a choice of two:
a) to be spiritually uplifted by music
q) a thorny shrub found along the West Coast of Africa


I don’t fancy either – it doesn’t sound very likely for any WA language I know about, and (being a perverse maverick) choice (a) is already too popular – though whoever made that deserves the accolade. It still sounds more Greek to me – oh, dear, maybe (a) is genuine after all. No, I’ll back my faulty memory and go with (k) – hi, wofa and J!

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I’ll back my faulty memory and go with (k) – hi, wofa and J!




Tragically or comically, I also voted for K.

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I pick O

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"Well, Milo, is it an ocean glider or a wader?
They can't be both."




I know that Maverick, I just didn't remember it.
But I also know that Hogmasterwashers play games.
I find it odd that "Ocean gull: a wader" is almost an anagram
of "ucalegon + AWADer". Don't you?

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