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

[Hutch]

I did say Sunday evening, didn't I. Make that ...

You have ~48 hours to get your votes in and break this tie!!!!

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Hutch <hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
BB,
Hutch

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