<div dir="auto">Don’t forget to vote on GALLY fictionitions! </div><div dir="auto">I’ll try to tally these up over my lunch on Monday.</div><div dir="auto">-Fran</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM Fran Poodry <<a href="mailto:fpoodry@gmail.com">fpoodry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div>Please send 1-point and 2-point votes by the morning of January 13.</div><div>I'm excited that there are two verbs and two adjectives among the usual collection of nouns!</div><div>-Fran</div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_8654127814284839194gmail-docs-internal-guid-68765f4a-7fff-1c0f-9fe3-7fe4db9d2cd1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">GALLY</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, v. to inscribe a possession with a name or other identifying information as proof of ownership</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, n. a Hungarian plant, Feketefeheria sopronensis, in the family</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Aristolochiaceae, used in folk medicine.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, n. a perch with a vertical scrim beneath it, used in falconry.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, v. frighten, terrify</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, n. a small, sharpened awl, used to create eyelets or perforation vents in leather shoes or sneakers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, adj. of paint, fractured by a network of small cracks.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, n. a silk and ivory flywhisk.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, adj. comfortable; just right. Likely shortened from "Goldilocks" circa 1850.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">gally, n. swagger, insolence.</span></p></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i style="font-family:arial">Fran Poodry (she/her)</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i style="font-family:arial">Oregon, USA</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i style="font-family:arial"><br></i></div><div style="font-size:small"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(24,24,24)">“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(24,24,24)">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead" style="text-decoration:none;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,0)" target="_blank">Margaret Mead</a></font><br></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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