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#165573 01/30/07 05:45 PM
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Submissions were from:

AnnaStrophic
Consuelo
Elizabeth Creith
Faldage
Jackie
Marianna
Musick
Owlbow
ParkinT
Sparteye
Themilum
Wofahulicodoc

And I forgot to include my usual spoiler definition, which would have been:

The bulbous curve part of a wooden cam used in making jigs.


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#165574 01/30/07 07:04 PM
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I should have read the manual before playing the game eh?
I knew it couldn't have been that easy!
Next time.

#165575 01/30/07 08:01 PM
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Oh, we don't know the results yet, Olly. We just know now who submitted the fake definitions. His Hogmastery will post the correct answer, and link the perps to their daffynitions, at a later date of his choosing.

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...and of course we all left out the obvious red herring:

a PUGGLE is a male who doesn't do magic

(I leave to your imaginations what is a female who doesn't do magic - many of you have already encountered that word, I suspect)

#165577 01/31/07 12:43 PM
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Quote:

...and of course we all left out the obvious red herring:

a PUGGLE is a male who doesn't do magic

(I leave to your imaginations what is a female who doesn't do magic - many of you have already encountered that word, I suspect)




A female who doesn't do magic??

#165578 01/31/07 01:06 PM
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Ha! Maybe only in Rowling's imagination...

#165579 01/31/07 08:29 PM
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When did this one sneak in? This term sounds undignified enough to fit the I definition but what in the ____ [swearing self-serve] is 'c.f.'? Weeding out the obvious fakes leaves J.


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C.f. is an abbreviation, intended to mean "compare." Cf. "cf."

#165581 01/31/07 09:40 PM
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yes, cf. is abbr. for Latin confer, compare; c.f. is.. I don't know; center field? cystic fibrosis??

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I'll take D ... despite the dangling preposition.

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