[Fictionary] GLIMA results

[J-J Cote]

The votes are in, and the winner is Pierre with his middle-eastern 
bug-borne malady.  It's all yours, Pierre!

General comments -
Ranjit: I'm going to discount all the glimmer defs.  I myself was 
thinking of that old song: "glow little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer..."
Linda: Well, aren't we scraping the bottom of a rather oily barrel!
Joe: I think lots of us were influenced by how much "glima" sounds like 
"glimmer".  But all of the non-glimmer defs seem a bit too unbelievable.
Jim: Disdain for whoever got the tune, "Glow, little glow-worm, glima, 
glima" stuck in my head.
Elliott: Seem to be a lot of defs influenced by the gl- phonestheme 
(gleam, glitter, glint, glow, etc.).
-- If anybody wants more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myK93FqbYc

glima - n. - The Carolina glowworm, _Glima noctiluca _.
by Ranjit. Linda 2, Elliott 1, 2 for correct guess = 5 points.
Linda: 2 points for the glowworm (Ranjit?) I seldom vote for the first 
def, but....
Elliott: One point for that rare double w.
_
_glima - n. - An iridescent sheen emanating from certain jellyfish.
by Linda. No points.

glima - n. - A thin film of oil floating on the surface of a body of water.
by Joe. Jim 2, Pierre 1, Elliott 2 = 5 points.
Eric: This is "glip" from one of my rounds.
Jim: Strong vote for not being about luminescence, yet sounding plausible.
Elliott: Sounds vaguely plausible.  When I was a kid I read a book that 
used a word that, according to the author, meant a layer of fresh 
rainwater floating on salt water.  I wish I'd written it down, because 
I've never seen it again.  Anyone know what it is?  (Two points for 
nostalgia.)
-- see note below

glima - n. - The aureola typically shown surrounding the image of a 
bodhisattva in Tibetan art.
by Eric. Linda 1, Joe 1, Jim 1, 1 for correct guess = 4 points.
Linda: And one point for the aureola because I have a sudden interest in 
art history (more European, though) via one of the Great Courses, and 
for the use of bodhissattva.
Joe: Sure, let's go with this glimmer.
Jim: Weak vote.
Elliott: Just doesn't sound Tibetan, somehow, probably because of the 
initial cluster.

glima - n. - The Icelandic national style of folk wrestling, which was a 
demonstration sport at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
real definition. Ranjit 2, Eric 1, Pierre 2, Hutch 1 = 6 points.
Ranjit: Good one!
Joe: I kind of like this one, but my gut says to me that an Icelandic 
sport would be more of a Winter Olympics thing.
Pierre: This sounds realest.
Elliott: Wish this were true, but doubt it.
-- Looks like Elliott gets his wish, because this is the real one.  The 
1912 Olympics were held in Stockholm and the Winter Olympics didn't 
start for another dozen years.  Glima (along with baseball) was the 
first official "demonstration sport" at an Olympics, although the 
earlier games did have non-medal competitions (including things like 
fire fighting, kite flying, and racing motorboats and motorcycles) that 
were later considered to have been demonstration sports.  It's worth 
checking out some recent glima competetions on YouTube -- it pretty much 
looks like same-sex ballroom dancing where you're trying to trip your 
partner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMTZhC3e7U&feature=related

glima - n. - A disease endemic to Syria and transmitted by gnats, 
characterized by red spots and a fever typically lasting four days.
by Pierre. David 2, Joe 2, Eric 2, 2 for correct guess = 8 points and 
the win.
Joe: By process of elimination, having discarded all the rest, I guess 
this gets my 2 point vote.

glima - n. - A mining technique, used as a humane alternative to 
blasting, in which popcorn kernels are injected into a fissure, popped 
by means of hot oil, and then removed by ants.
by Elliott. Ranjit 1, David 1, Hutch 2 = 4 points.
Linda: A big laugh and encouragement for the popcorn mining technique!  
We have a lot of scavengers on our minifarm (I released a squirrel today 
from the Hav-a-Hart), but ants will do, it seems.
Joe: I would love to see this in action.  I'd particularly like to know 
how you train the ants.
Jim: Ah, will the wackiness never end?  I'll guess this is Elliott, 
though it seems sillier than his norm.
Hutch: Popcorn? Ants? *LOL* I don't believe it for a second, but this 
one deserves a vote for pure chutzpah and imagination: 2 points

glima - n. (Pittsburgh dialect, fr. "glimmer") - 1. The appearance of 
the Pittsburgh skyline at night, as seen from a speeding roller-coaster; 
2. The appearance of any brightly-lit portion of the world, when drunk.
by David. No points.
Ranjit: Afflatus award.
Linda: As for the Philly pronunciation, RI uses the "a" ending instead 
of "er" as much as possible.  Not me, I'm from  W.Mass.  A native RIer, 
my husband has a more NH accent, somehow
Jim: Wins the Jean Shepherd Memorial Midwest Nostalgia Award
Elliott: Any definition is improved by appending ``, when drunk''.  I'll 
have to try that with fortune cookies.

And Hutch gets one point for a correct guess even though he didn't 
submit a definition.

Note on the floating layer of fresh water: I did a quick google for 
this, and it appears that it's usually called a "lens", though in some 
contexts a similar phenomenon is a "Ghyben-Herzberg lens".  There's also 
a heated discussion on a site that I found about a passage in the Koran 
that can be interpreted as meaning that salt water and fresh water don't 
mix (by decree of God), that some people seem to think is a basis for 
declaring the Koran inaccurate.  In any case, the first time I 
encountered this layer-of-fresh-water concept was in the very first 
round I ever played of fictionary, where it was one of the fake 
definitions of "infangtheof".  It's one of the things from this game 
that burned itself most indelibly into my mind.  Naturally, it was from 
Elliott (he was running that round, but also inserted a couple of fake 
definitions of his own).

Also worth noting is that the North American Ski Orienteering Middle 
Distance Championships, Men's 40+ division, was won yesterday (pretty 
commandingly) by Jonathan Owens.
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