maguari wins! Or rather...

[Pierre Abbat]

On Monday 08 December 2003 13:17, metasilk at sover.net wrote:
> Pierre wins 2:
> maguari (n) [Guaran=ED] Either of two trogons, Baucomia maguari and B.
> flavirostris, of Paraguay and Bolivia.
>      1 (Judith)
>      +1 for guessing right
> Aussie:   Patently claptrap!
> James:    What's a trogon?  [Kir adds: I think someone should send you some
> postcards from tropical countries! I think I got a trogon postcard from ...
> um ... Costa Rica?]
> JJ:       I'll guess Pierre.
> Linda:    No idea what a trogon is. Probably it.

A trogon is a kind of bird, of which the best known is the quetzal. The word 
means "gnawer" in Greek, presumably because of the way they make their nests 
in tree trunks.

> Jean-Joseph:
> maguari (n) Payments made by a former employee to a company in order to
> continue insurance coverage or other perquisites after termination.
> Aussie:   COBRA!
> MyS:      The perqs practice is illegal, I believe, but...
> James:    I wish this had a generic term, but suspect that there isn't one.
> I just knew it as COBRA (which I may be misremembering as an acronym, hence
> the all-caps). It was also known as "how to go broke fast." Fortunately, I
> eventually became re-employed, after a fashion.
> Linda:    Isn't that Cobra?

COBRA, or CORBA? CORBA (Common Object Reserve Broker Architecture, or 
something like that) is a sort of interprocess communication in computers.

> Online Plain Text dictionary (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au//~raplh/OPTED/ ):
> maguari (n) A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked
> tail. 1 (Pierre)
>      2 (Judith)
> Pierre:   One point for the birds. Since it resembles my def, it's probably
> not real.
> Elliott:  Are there New World storks? I don't remember, but I'm skeptical.
> JJ:       I do like this, but alas, I'm out of points.
> Linda:    Actually, this sounds possibly like the cry of a stork.

Several sites called it Ciconia maguari.

phma
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