Puna ballot

[Fran Poodry]

OK, so I got home and fell asleep.  But I had to wake up and eat dinner, and
put together the puna ballot, and wrap and package gifts for sending
overseas tomorrow, and feed the cat, and...


Anyway, I forsee a very hectic and indeed frantic and way-too-busy week
ahead, so you have until Monday December 11 to vote, one 1-pointer and one
2-pointer (a la Jed!) from the following collection of possible punas!

-Fran
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Puna  v.  (Puna'd, Puna-ing or Punaring; also Poona, Pooner, etc.)  (Br.
mil. sl.)  To punish an officer unofficially by posting him to a remote,
unpleasant, or unprestigious command.  From Puna, a city in western India.
Shanghai'd young into the Fleet,/Copenhagened, chased, and beat,/ And lately
Puna'd off to Swansea by his wife! (Kipling, Naval and Military Ballads,
1902).
 
 
PUNA  acronym.  Public Utilities of North America, a lobbying organization
(in Washington and Ottawa) representing the interests of state, provincial,
county, and municipally-owned water and power companies.
 
 
puna  n. obs.  The sin of failing to perform, or incorrectly performing,
passos (certain Lenten exercises, denigrated by the Second Lateran Council
[1139]); promulgated by St. Isidore of Pesulium (c.380-449/450)
 
 
puna  n.  Rainfall in the atmosphere which evaporates completely before
reaching the ground.
 
 
puna  n.  A variety of cotton grown in Peru, which because of its level of
gossypol is usually grown without insecticides.
 
 
puna  n.  Any one of several similar reef fish species, including the
unrelated Speckled False Puna, found in the Hawai'ian archipelago.
"These waters may be a federally protected wildlife area, but the puna we
catch here taste so good!"
 
 
puna  v. sl.  To share generously. [N. Amer., originating southern
California.  Compare _bogart_]
 
 
puna  n.  Residue strained off from boiled hooves during the manufacture of
glue.
 
 
puna  adj.  Discarded by a god. As, food offerings, cooking vessels,
worn-out fabric or thatching, etc., that are no longer fit for holy use, but
taboo because formerly in the deity's possession.
 
 
puna  n.  A small lake. [Southwestern U.S.]
 
 
puna  n.  A fold in a cat's ear.
 
 
puna  n.  A poisoned lei. [Hawaiian]
 
 
puna  n.  1.  A high plateau in the Peruvian Andes.  2.  mountain sickness.
[Quechua, in sense 1]
 



Jokes:

Ho!  Obvious!
It's a member of the cat family!
No, that's a puma.
Well, then, it's a...<ahem> whore.
No, that's a puta.
Ah, yes, it's a popular canned fish!
Well...I guess I don't know, then.
love, judith