[Fictionary] Septentrionalis

[Jim Moskowitz]

At 12:09 PM -0400 9/18/09, Judith Schrier wrote:
>
>Here's the results:  Half of you saw right through my White-banded 
>Wolf Snake, leaving the rest to scramble for the remaining  20 
>points...but there is a three-way tie at the top!  What's the 
>official way to deal with that?

Very sorry to hear about your techtastrophe, Judith!

Since I was responsible for one of the four-point definitions (the 
heresy), and I pegged the true definition, I think I may have won... 
unless Nick or Pierre who also pegged the Snake (ouch, that sounds 
subtextual! ;-) were the author of one of the other four-point 
definitions in which case we're tied.  Nick? Pierre? (Jean-Joseph has 
already told us that his def was the infection types)

-Jim


>Septentrionalis: Literally, seven plow oxen, now used as the Linnean 
>name, Dinodon septentrionalis, of the White-banded Wolf Snake.
>Origin:  A Latin word indicating the seven stars of Ursa Major or Minor.
>NINE POINTS
>Jim Moskowitz:  2 points
>Nicolas Ward:  2 points. Specific and to the point!
>Kir Talmage: Oxen? Snakes? Bears?   O my!
>Pierre Abbat:  Two points for explaining what "septen-" has to do with north.
>Jean-Joseph Cote:  Sounds good to me.  Two points.
>Ranjit Bhatnagar: Ohh, seven stars pointing to North Star would 
>explain the northerly
>connection.  1 point for clearing that up for me (whether or not it's true)

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