[Fictionary] Re: J is for ... a ballot!!! (finally!)

[Hutch]

Well, I have four votes in (thanks David, Eric, J-J, and Linda).

At the moment we have (I think!!!) a five-way tie for the lead. You have
~24 hours to get your votes in and break this tie!!!!

BB,
Hutch

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Hutch <hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> At long last, a ballot. Again, my apologies for letting this round run on
> the way it did.
>
> Let's give it a week for voting, so please have your votes in by the end
> of the day, Saturday, April 4th. I'll tally the votes sometime on Sunday.
> As usual, give 2-point and 1-point votes (plus as many amusing tie-breaker
> votes as you wish). Give them to the group of three, rather than to
> individual fictionitions.
>
> ==========
>
> jack - n. - A smooth stone disk fastened to a piling of a jaseran to keep
> rodents from entering.
> jamb - v. - To fasten netting to the slat walls of a jaseran so as to
> allow air to enter, in order to dry the grain, but keep flying animals out
> jaseran - n. - An elevated granary built on pilings.
>
> jack - v. - [fr. Malay] - to dive for pearls
> jamb - n. - [fr. Malay] - a black pearl
> jaseran - n. - [fr. Malay] a pearl thief
>
> jack - n. - The inner bark layers of a Stone pine (Pinus pinea).
> jamb - n. - The outer bark layers of a Stone pine (Pinus pinea).
> jaseran - n. - A style of chair popular in Moorish Spain whose seat is
> formed from overlapping jack and jamb.
>
> jack - n. - a special type of incense used at certain Indian wedding
> festivals. Jack is slang for many different varieties, but usually flowery
> and spicy, not intoxicating.
> jamb - n. - the liquid oil poured sparingly over jack to activate the
> fragrance and make it smoulder.
> jaseran - n. - the container, usually ceramic with inlaid metallic bits,
> in which jack and jamb are co-mingled.
>
> jack - n. - Genre of power noise music developed in the 1970s as an
> outgrowth of the California proto-punk movement.
> jamb - n. - A breadboarded RC (resistive-capacitative) unit used to
> customize or distort the sound of early Ampex multitrack recorders,
> repopularized in the retro-noise esthetic of the 1990s.
> Jaseran [styled lowercase jaseran] - Mononym of keyboardist and recording
> engineer Jason Emkanian, best known for his avant-garde and noise rock work
> at Grey-Grey-Grey recording studio in Modesto, California, circa  1995-2005.
>
> jack - n. - A cigarette rolled in birchbark.
> jamb - v. - To soak a cigar in dilute ether in order to tighten the
> wrapper.
> jaseran - n. - A humidor with a clockwork mechanism to slowly roll the
> cigars
>
> jack - n. - medieval leather coat worn as armour
> jamb - n. - metal leg-armour
> jaseran - n. - fine chain mail jacket
>
> ==========
>
> P.S. An interesting combination of the two interests that got me into this
> group in the first place: maps and words. Check out
> http://www.what3words.com. What's it for? When you need to meet a friend
> at the largest mall in the US, don't try to tell them the southeast corner.
> There are (at least) six entrances you could describe that way. Just say to
> meet at "modify.acoustics.knitted". That three word address identifies a
> specific spot, 3-meter square. If anyone cares my front door is at
> "pundits.interacts.inflicts", but my kitchen is at "fight.among.groovy". (I
> like the last one better :-D ) (Nope, nowhere near the Mall of America;
> heck, nowhere near ANYTHING!!! :-)
>
> BB,
> Hutch
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