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[Hutch]

Sorry, everyone. I'm taking an on-line class and, of course, work has to go
crazy at the same time. I think I saw that J-J took over the round. Go for
it!!!

Oy veh!!!

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:43 PM, eLLioTT morEton <em at swarpa.net> wrote:

> Has there been a decision yet about who's running the next round?
>
> Regards,
> em
>
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>


-- 
BB,
Hutch

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