Another Raddle

[lindafowens]

Dear Jed,  Thanks for your reply. I had just joined the club when the word
raddle was announced.  I was still not getting all my mail from you guys,
but my friend Judith was relaying things to me.  She told me to make up a
def anyway, which was the rubble one.  Meanwhile, I had told Elliott to
disqualify me because I knew what a raddle was and I had a couple from
weaving.  When the defs to vote on came out, there was no real raddle that I
knew there.  (Only maybe reddle.)  So I wrote to Elliott  (and subsequently
to Fran and Judith) to explain what a weaving raddle was and how it was
used.  (And my reddle references.)  My scanner is not hooked up yet or I
would have sent a picture.  In the meantime, other people and I keep coming
up with more info than anyone probably cares about, but I felt moved to find
it and tell y'all.  Sorry if it is boring.  The notes to Elliott were never
forwarded or broadcast or disseminated, and I did not know how to let
everyone know what I knew until recently, as I never got any "rules", etc.,
just lots of automated messages.  That's why I'm late in getting notes out.
I'm thinking that if anyone wants to see raddle-the-sheep-dip in action, the
movie Far From the Madding Crowd has the shepherds on Boldwood's farm, I
believe, gathering the beasts into a deep puddle for dunking--perhaps it was
against parasites?  I think I am about all raddled out and will lighten up
in the future.  Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: Jed Hartman <logos at kith.org>
To: lindafowens <lindafowens at netzero.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Another Raddle


> Hi, Linda.  I'm a little confused by your raddle notes.  You wrote:
>
> >I was a little miffed when nobody believed my real def of "raddle"
> >to be a weaving term
>
> But your definition according to Elliott's annotated list was:
>
> >raddle -- 1.  (n.)  The rubble left at the bottom of a pile of snow
> >after the snow melts.  2.  (n)  Any annoying thoughts that invade
> >your dreams.  3. (v.) To disturb someone's sleep or dreams with
> >nitpicking little ideas.
>
> And the weaving-related one was attributed to Kir.  So I'm confused.  Was
> the rubble definition really yours?  Was the weaving def Kir's?  Was there
> some other def that didn't appear among the options for voting?
>
> Also, I'm a little confused by your use of the term "real" -- do you mean
> you submitted a definition you believed to be the actual definition of the
> word?  If so, you shouldn't do that -- if you think you know the real
> definition, you should let the word-picker know that at the beginning of
> the round, so they can pick another word.
>
> (Though in this particular round it appears that several of us had
> encountered uses of the word other than the one Elliott had in mind, which
> makes things trickier -- Elliott may've thought that some people who
> thought they knew the word really didn't.)
>
> Am enjoying the results of your researches, though, especially the Dickens
> quotation.
>
> --jed
>
>



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