[Fictionary] GOOLAYYALIBEE ballot

[J-J Cote]

The candidates are hereby presented.  Get your singleton and doubleton 
votes in by the the time I return from the Selectmen's meeting on the 
evening of Tuesday, March 22.

Jean-Joseph
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Goolayyalibee - n. - An aboriginal kangaroo-hunting party.

goolayyalibee - n. [fr. Quechua] - A spicy stew of maize, quinoa, and 
guinea pig.

goolayyalibee - n. - A traditional orchestral ensemble of Karnataka, 
India, or a performance by such an ensemble.

goolayyalibee - adj. - Slapshod or rushed in construction. Australian 
English, from Yagara. "That house is full goolayyalibee, could fall any 
day."

goolayyalibee - n. - An artificial spectacle built to attract passengers 
to one side of a passing train so that they act as a counterweight on an 
improperly banked curve.

goolayyalibee - n. [Australian] - Nonsense, extreme foolishness. From 
Innawonga _gulangalibi_, fear of death by thirst in the wet season and 
of crocodiles in the dry season.

goolayyalibee - n. - A negative situation arising after senior 
leadership repeatedly takes the opposite actions of those recommended by 
leaders in the field (slang term, Australia & New Zealand Army Corp 
(ANZAC)).

Goolayyalibee - n. [Gullah speak] - The Festival of Returning Spring, as 
celebrated on the Islands off the coast of South Carolina. Included is a 
prayer for safe passage from devastating coastal storms often present at 
this time of changing seasons.

Goolayyalibee - n. - One of the three divisions of the Spinifex people 
of the Nullarbor Plain, the others being Goolamardirnoo and 
Goolabungbung. Married couples must be from two different divisions, and 
their children belong to the third.

goolayyalibee - n. - The Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). 
They are predominantly white with black along the primaries of the 
wings. The pale, pinkish bill is enormous, even by pelican standards, 
and is the largest bill in the avian world.