[Fictionary] OWLING returns!

[eLLioTT morEton]

Fictioneers!

Here, at long laft, are the OWLING returns.  Linda's phlange was a ftrong 
contender, and she picked up two points for gueffing the right anfwer, but 
in the end Jean-Jofeph's decorative texture prevailed by a fingle point.

Haul it away, Jean!

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Pierre was moved to verse:

We met at an owling at school, in a building with owling between the
sailors.
It was used for owling sometimes, the hay being bundled by balers.
But our owling was found out one night, we were caught infrared-handed
By a prof who was owling for cats, and to Girton court were remanded.

[A sailor is a brick in one of the six orientations. I found this out in
engineering last semester.]

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owling (n.) A type of phlange used on mechanized weaving equipment that 
aids in retying warp threads.

By LINDA.  David 2 + Judith 1 + Pierre 1 + Jean-Joseph 1 + 2 for correct 
guess = 7

Pierre:  "This sounds plausible, except for the phunny spelling. I'll give 
it one point."

Hutch:  "My mother is a weaver (and spinner and knitter) and my father is 
a birder. I think I would have heard of this one."

Ranjit:  "do phalanges have flanges?"
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owling (n.) A midnight hoedown.

By RANJIT.  2 for correct guess = 2

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owling (n.)  Attempting to discover a co-worker's password by peeking at 
the keyboard during password entry.  "Dude, so you know I ask Andrei if he 
knows why the message queue is empty? And so we're at his desk, and I have 
to login as JBoss, and I swear he's owling every time I had to log in."

By ERIC.  Linda 1 + 1 for correct guess = 2

Jean-Joseph:  'I've heard this described (with respect to ATM passwords) 
as "shoulder-surfing".  Seems like the ubiquity of tiny video cameras 
these days would make this increasingly easy, and we're going to have to 
go to fingerprint recognition or something, big time.'

Linda:  "(One of my kids lost the contents of his locker repeatedly in 
junior high until he learned not to open his combination locker when 
others were looking. He also got a new combination.)"

Hutch:  "I'm sure I remember seeing a word for this in one of the various
jargon or slang websites, but I'm equally sure this isn't it."

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owling (n.) In a slaughterhouse, the bar that prevents the animal from 
going forward.

By PIERRE.  Fran 2 + Jean-Joseph 2 = 4

Ranjit:  "what does a psychiatrist call a bar that keeps a patient from 
moving forward?"

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owling (n.)  So called from it's being ufually carried on in the night, is
the offence of tranfporting wool or fheep out of this kingdom, to the
detriment of it's ftaple manufacture.

By WILLIAM BLACKSTONE.  Eric 1 + Linda 2 + Ranjit 2 = 5, but he's dead.

Pierre:  "You can't be ferious, are you?"

Jean-Joseph:  "Fheep!  Fheep!"  [Afterwards:]  "Wikipedia sez it's the 
fheep.  You rat.  In 1566 owling was made punishable by "cutting off the 
left hand and nailing it in a public place".

Ranjit:  'This is filly, but it gets 2 points becaufe I like saying 
"fheep."'

_Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the Fourth, Chapter the 
Twelfth:

www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/blackstone/bk4ch12.htm

Apparently OCR'd using a technology that didn't know about 18th-Century 
long s.  Why read Blackstone when you can read Jeremy Bentham's review of 
Blackstone?

http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/bentham/government.html

It is very nasty and funny in places, which Blackstone never is.

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owling (n.) (Edwardian Cambridge slang, mock-Cockney) - 1. Loud admiration
of a resident of Girton College.  2. A romantic liaison with a Girtonian.

By DAVID.  Fran 1 = 1

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owling (n.) Using photographic techniques to "see" in the darkness. (Slang
term used by field biologists)

By JUDITH.  Hutch 2 + Ranjit 1 = 3

Ranjit:  "That's so boringly plausible.  I'm going to assume the (n.) is a
transcription error and give this 1 point."
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owling (n.) 1. A technique for creating a decorative texture in mortar, by
pressing rope into the spaces between newly-laid bricks. 2. The texture
created by this technique.

By JEAN-JOSEPH.  David 1 + Eric 2 + Judith 2 + Pierre 2 + Hutch 1 = 8

Fran:  "This seems most likely, but I am out of points."
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