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Has there been a decision yet about who's running the next round?

Regards,
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On Sun, 5 Mar 2017, Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:

> I'd be happy to conduct the next round, but for my shame in the fact that I 
> didn't vote in this round.  Part of the reason why I didn't vote was because 
> I looked at the definitions and saw that none of them were mine.  I was 
> therefore pretty surprised when I saw that I was tied for first place.  I 
> looked at the definition attributed to me, and not only did I not recognize 
> it, it didn't even look like the kind of definition or wording I would have 
> used, so I realized that there was a mistake.  I was even more surprised when 
> I checked my Sent folder and found that I actually had sent it in, on January 
> 2.  Nancy says that I was probably still drunk from New Year's, which seems 
> unlikely since I haven't had a drink in the past quarter century or so.  But 
> I think that Jan 2 might be Hutch's birthday, so I'll defer the honors to 
> him.
>
> Jean-Joseph
>
> On 3/5/2017 1:19 PM, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:
>>  My definition (mouse factory leftovers) was inspired by Jim Mosowitz's
>>  wonderful /afflatus/, which I still think about all the time nearly 20
>>  years later:
>>
>>      afflatus - (n)  loose change, pens, toupees, and other small items
>>      found beneath the loop-the-loop on a roller coaster.
>>
>>      (Feb. 1998)
>> 
>>
>>  Since it was a semiripoff, I'll defer to Hutch and Jean-Joseph for the
>>  next round, unless neither of you wants it.
>>
>>  -r
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Nicolas Ward <ultranurd at gmail.com
>>  <mailto:ultranurd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      The results are in and... we have a three-way tie in the points total!
>>      I'm not sure if we have a metric for tie breaking between receiving
>>      the most points or assigning the most points to the real definition.
>>      One of Jean-Joseph, Hutch, or Ranjit should take it away.
>> 
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