[Fictionary] Easy to be Nard?

[Hutch]

Well, I got the results done only 36 hours later than I had originally
intended. I'm improving :-D

Jim Moskowitz wins, with his "dark wet" fictionition.

JIm? Your turn?

Results below, with all notes.

BB,
Hutch

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Pierre Abbat: I recognize this, having seen "nerdiludium" as Latin for
"backgammon" in Wiktionary.

J-J Cote: Ya gotta love the fact that the eleven defs comprise five nouns,
two verbs, three adjectives, and a preposition.

nard  adj.  opaque, hard, dark.
by Linda F Owens - 2 points
Linda F Owens: I think this may be mine--forgot which one it was. Actually,
I like this one best. But no points. [Ed. Note: Unless I'm mistaken, I am
the only player to have actually VOTED for his own fictionition once
*blush*)
eLLioTT morEton: Could be, I suppose.
J-J Cote: 2 : Two dark defs, and I'll vote for them both.

nard  prep.  (Obs.) Among, usually with the implication of a subtle,
unnoticeable presence.
by Jean-Joseph Cote - 3 points
Ranjit Bhatnagar: 2 : This one didn't catch my eye nard the others at first.
Linda F Owens: 1 : This one is so mysterious that I give it one point
Jed Hartman: I'm very pleased to see a preposition definition, but when I
try to put it in a sentence ("He slipped nard the crowd"; "There was a
ghost nard the party"), it sounds a little awkward to me.
eLLioTT morEton: Seems too specific, somehow.

nard  n.  An extinct Arabian breed of dog of the sighthound type
by Pierre Abbat - 3 points (including 2 for his correct guess)
Linda F Owens: 1 : There are a lot of ancient breeds of dogs that have one-
or two-syllable names, so 1 point.
eLLioTT morEton: I like the word "sighthound". Is it a dog that hunts
tourist attractions?
J-J Cote: I like the idea of the sighthound, though in modern times
shepherds have been used more often than hounds, I think.

nard  adj.  Crumpled or disordered.
by Nicolas Ward - 3 points
David Randall: 2
Ranjit Bhatnagar: 1
eLLioTT morEton: "Nard" doesn't sound disordered, somehow.

nard  n.  dental floss made from pocket lint
by David Randall - 0 points
Linda F Owens: This sounds familiar--did we have it before?? Or is it from
Mad Magazine?
eLLioTT morEton: Did they use to make it from something else?
J-J Cote: Eeeuw [Ed. Note: My comment when David submitted it was
"GROSSSSSSSS!!!"

nard  v.  To come to an abrupt stop, as in an elevator.
by Jed Hartman - 0 points
Linda F Owens: Everybody jump high.
eLLioTT morEton: Hmmm. What does "as in an elevator" mean? Of what kind of
abrupt stopper are elevators canonical examples? [Ed. Note: Jed, are you
talking about the abrupt stop when the cable breaks?]

nard  n.  [Athab.] soft floor coverings, such as furs or rugs, used to
floor a tent or other temporary structure
by Hutch
0 points
Linda F Owens: As in a Yurt?
Jed Hartman: ...or a yurt?
eLLioTT morEton: Yurt alert! Now all we need's a pope-smoke reference. [Ed
Note: Since Elliott submitted such a wonderful pope-smoke fictionition, I
had to throw in a yurt as well. :-) ]
J-J Cote: Not a yurt, of course, being North American ...

nard  n.  (or nardshir, or narde, Persian) a board game for two players in
which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. Similar
to backgammon and using the same board, it has different initial positions
and rules.
by Wikipedia - 4 points
Fictioneric: 1
Pierre Abbat: 2
Linda F Owens: Compelling, but no.
eLLioTT morEton: 1 For once, I am persuaded by a game def.

nard  v.  to be rude or hurtful without realizing
by Ranjit Bhatnagar - 2 points
eLLioTT morEton: 2 : It would be good to have a word for this.

nard  adj.  darker in color due to moisture.
by Jim Moskowitz - 7 points
David Randall: 1
Fictioneric: 2 : Needs a word
Linda F Owens: 1 : Just reread an article in National Geog. about
Underground Paris and this reminded me of that.
Jed Hartman: 2
eLLioTT morEton: Oooh! Nice. Why do things become darker when moistened? I
asked that of Eric once (about paper towels), and he had a convincing
explanation, which I won't spoil until everyone's had a chance to discuss
it. [Ed. Note: Didn't we discuss that HERE in the Fictionary mailing list?
I have a recollection of this discussion as well.]
J-J Cote: 1 : And my other point for the other dark definition.

nard  n.  The fragrant smoke produced by the mutual annihilation of a
pope-antipope pair.
by eLLioTT morEton - 2 points (including 1 for his correct guess)
Linda F Owens: Haven't we had some Pope smoke jokes lately?
Jed Hartman: 1 : Hee! :) Nice.
J-J Cote: I'm not sure if this has ever happened, as they probably tended
to avoid each other. That said, with excellent job that Francis has been
doing, I've been wondering if the stodgiest of the cardinals will decide
that they made a mistake, and go for an ecclesiastic impeachment, as it
were, and try to get Benedict back. In that case, we could have an
opportunity for a papal smackdown.

eLLioTT morEton: Before sending in this ballot, I went on Duck Duck Go to
look up the poem about Doctor Edward Anti-Teller, which inspired this def.
Only two sites had the poem, so naturally, I chose the one on Boy Toy Gay
Male Escort Forums:

http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16338-one-step-closer-to-nuclear-fusion/

where I found the following shareworthy .sig file:

"You try and learn English in an all-Yiddish household in the East Bronx by
sounding out the words of Blake's 'Prophecies'!" --  Harold Bloom

I would *love* to try that some time!

And finally, fictioneric did not create a fictionition, but got 1 point for
his correct guess
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