SLOCKING-STONE ballot (votes due Monday the 18th) (fwd)

[eLLioTT morEton]

Hi,

Hutch's ballot, sent on time, arrived too late to be counted.  Here it is.  
Sorry, Hutch!


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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:11:48 -0600
From: Hutch <hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com>
To: eLLioTT morEton <emoreton at alum.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Re: SLOCKING-STONE ballot (votes due Monday the 18th)

On 9/12/06, eLLioTT morEton <emoreton at alum.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> Fictioneers!
>
> Definitions were submitted by Eric, James, Pierre, Fran, Jean-Joseph,
> Linda, Ranjit, Judith, David, Jim, and "the" dictionary.  I have
> regularized the punctuation and capitalization a bit for that eerie
> uniformity you get in dictionaries, and randomized the order.
>
> Anyone can vote, whether they submitted a def or not.  One- and two-point
> votes (as well as comments, poetry, ASCII art, etc.) are due by 5 p.m.
> U.S. Eastern Standard Time, Monday, September 18.  Go to!
>
> em
> ___________________________________________________________________
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> slocking-stone -- n.  Very fine-grained metamorphic rock, typically light
> gray to tan, and used for interior decorative stonework as moldings, dado
> rails, etc.

Stone for moldings and dados??? I know they do this sort of thing, but
I just can't believe this is right.

> slocking-stone -- n. The smallest of the five bones in the middle ear of
> most dolphins.

Why would a dolphin's ear bone be named differently than any other
mammal's ear bone?

> slocking-stone -- n.  A tempting, selected stone, shown to induce
> strangers to adventure in a mine.

"Schlock" + "stone". This is called "high-grade".

> slocking-stone -- n.  (med., inf.)  A kidney stone passed through the
> ureter but lodged in the urethra.

Isn't this still a "kidney stone"?

> slocking-stone -- n.  One of a set of standard stones used in measuring a
> person, animal, or object in "stones".

A weight standard, okay, I like this one: 2 points

> slocking-stone -- n.  In the game of micklet, a stone that hits two other
> stones at once, thus branching the chain reaction.

If this is it I will absolutely pass a slocking-stone! "Micklet"???

> slocking-stone -- n. (Northumberland dial.)  Pumice.
>
> slocking-stone -- n.  A large, usually flat stone incorporated into the
> upper surface of a beaver lodge.
>
> slocking-stone -- adv. (central U.S. slang)  Extremely.  Only used in the
> expression "He's slocking-stone cold DEAD!"
>
> slocking-stone -- n.  A device to alert one that the pot is boiling.
> Place the flattish, concave stone (like the shape of a red blood cell, but
> about 3 inches across) in the soup, or whatever, and when the soup boils
> the stone will clatter and bang inside the pot so that you know to come
> and turn down the heat to simmer the soup.

I know there is such a thing; I've used them. But I've never seen a
name for it and the definition doesn't sound 'dictionary-esque'
enough.

> slocking-stone -- n. (Northeast U.S. and Canada)  1. A heavy stone on a
> rope used as an improvised anchor for a small boat; hence 2. a shirker.

Hmm, I like this one too, but got no points left. Give it my imaginary
tie-breaker point.

> slocking-stone -- n. A small boulder marking the current best distance at
> a caber toss. "And with that excellent toss, Duff will have to roll the
> slocking-stone another two meters!"

Well I blew off the other 'game' definition, but I like this one: 1 point

BB,
Hutch

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