SLOCKING-STONE results

Nora Munoz noraemunoz at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 20 09:47:30 EDT 2006



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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.
> 
> ERIC
> 2 = Pierre 2
> Nora:  this gets my vote for cutest definition. 
> Since Ranjitand I just 
> watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I think it
> is particulary 
> fitting to say "So long, and thanks for all the
> fish!", but I give it no 
> actual "counting votes."

Hmmm...  I must have stuck this in the wrong place.  I
meant it to go after the NEXT definition - the one for
dolphins!

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> slocking-stone -- n. The smallest of the five bones
> in the middle ear of 
> most dolphins.
> 
> JEAN-JOSEPH.
> 1 = David 1
> Pierre:  All mammals have three bones in each ear;
> all other vertebrates, 
> if they have ears, have one. None have five. Not
> having access to breast 
> tissue or behavior, paleontologists use this as a
> criterion for 
> mammalhood.
> 


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