<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm in the middle of a busy weekend and won't be able to tally ballots until at least Tuesday, so you still have time to get your votes in. Only a few have so far. You're all probably busy as well. But that's no excuse, what's more important than Fictionary?!</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Joseph</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM J-J Cote <<a href="mailto:marydevinechandler@gmail.com">marydevinechandler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div><span>Here you go, eight fake definitions, one real definition, and one explicitly joke definition from David. Send in your one-point and two-point guesses before Labor Day weekend (although with all I have going on that weekend, results will probably not come out until a few days after that, so there's probably an implicit extension here). If you vote for David's joke definition, you lose half of your wager!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Jean-Joseph</span></div><div><span>_______________________________________________________________</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>konzo - n. - (fr. Igbo) A taboo-breacher who is to be sold as a slave.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>
<span>konzo - n. - (derived from American Sign Language) - A rebus with no solution.</span>
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<br></div><div><span>konzo - n. - A dish of chopped vegetables, ground meat, and fried noodles, created for U.S. troops in Korea.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>
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<span>konzo - n. - A fish of the species Larimichthys konzo, in the croaker
family, found around Shikoku, whose swim bladder is held to have
medicinal properties.</span><br><br></div><div></div>
<div>konzo - adj. - (classic and retro video game community) - of music or
especially sound effects, excellent, surprising. From Koji KONDO
(composer at Nintendo) + GONZO.</div><div><br></div><div></div>
konzo - n. - 1. A traffic jam of hot-air balloons ascending and descending over the same spot. 2. Obstruction of the mind by an attempt to rethink too many beliefs at once. <br><br></div><div>konzo - n. - A hand lettering style in which ascenders and descenders
remain vertical but horizontals become oblique and parallel to the
desired layout angle. From the Japanese calligraphic style.</div><div><br></div><div>konzo - n. - An epidemic paralytic disease occurring among hunger-stricken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary cyanide intake. [fr. Yaka "tied legs"]</div><div><br></div><div>konzo - n. - [Port. konzo, agreement; from the legendary "O Konzo"
between several Alani and Hasdingi chieftains who agreed that the last
of them alive would take command of all their tribes; credited with
forming the central group of the Vandal invasion and conquest of North
Africa in 428] An agreement, similar to the French *tontine*, where the
last survivor takes ownership of the entire value of the investment.</div><div><br></div></div>
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