[Fictionary] Jack Jamb Jaseran - Armored, Opalescent, Aromatic, Protective, Smoky, Seated, and Noisy

[Hutch]

There are definitely times when certain people really just shouldn't bother
getting out of bed. I coulda swore I had prepared this and sent it off last
week, but I can't find the file and I definitely DIDN'T send anything.

Anyway, the real definition won, so I'll just pick another ... [shut him up
/ drag 'em off stage / get a rope!] or perhaps not :-D

In reality, we have a tie for the lead between David Randall and J-J Cote.
However, David's stuffed the ballot box with his "Inspirational Poem"
included below, so I declare David Randall the winner.

Linda's note echoes my opinion. Eric's "power noise" from "the California
proto-punk movement" is without a doubt one of the most original
fictionitions we've had in a long time! Kudos, sir!!!

BB,
Hutch

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$
N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?
X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++>
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

------------------------------

jack - n - medieval leather coat worn as armour
jamb - n - metal leg-armour
jaseran - n - fine chain mail jacket
by Reality (http://phrontistery.info/j.html) 6
David Randall, 2
J-J Cote, 2
fictioneric, 2 ("Well, that's a real definition of 'jack', one I
deliberately steered clear of because I thought it was one of the known
ones we were supposed to ignore. So unless someone's being sneaky, these
are the real defs. I won't vote for them, since knowing one seems like
cheating." Ed. Note: This was definitely NOT one of the 'known' definitions
to ignore; although he disclaimed it because of 'knowing' [one of] the
correct definitions, I gave it to him as a correct guess anyway.)

jack - v - [fr. Malay] - to dive for pearls
jamb - n - [fr. Malay] - a black pearl
jaseran - n - [fr. Malay] a pearl thief
by David Randall -- 5 (including 2 point correct guess)
Ranjit Bhatnagar, 1
Linda Owens, 1
Nicholas Ward, 1 ("1 point for believable transliteration")

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.
by lindafowens -- 3
David Randall, 1
Pierre Abbat, 2

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.
by Pierre Abbat -- 1
J-J Cote, 1

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
by Jean-Joseph Cote -- 5 (including 2 point correct guess)
Nicholas Ward, 2 ("2 points for medieval simplicity")
fictioneric, 1 ("One point because I like my cigarettes jambed. Aficionados
use a jaseran to evenly distribute the ether in newly-jambed cigars; the
traditional clockwork device was used to prevent the danger of fire from
sparking in ether vapor, attendant upon the use of early electric motors.
Nowadays, cheap battery-powered jaserans are used by hoi polloi.")

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.
by Nicolas Ward -- 3
Linda Owens, 2
Pierre Abbat, 1 ("One travished point." Ed Note: Was "travished" an old
fictionary word? Whazzit mean?)

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.
fictioneric -- 4 (including 2 point correct guess)
Ranjit Bhatnagar, 2
Nicholas Ward ("Hehe retronoise")
Linda Ward ("Honorable mention to the CA music stuff. I'd believe anything
about CA, even though one of my sons lives there and is quite traditional.")

-----

An Inspirational Poem
by David Randall

Jack found himself in a terrible Jamb,
Helpless before the Iamb that Iamb;
"Jaseran!" swore he. "By Jimbo! By Gee!
Jumpin' Jehosophat! Fiddle-dee-dee!"
But swearing was futile, and finally Jack
Was et by the Iamb, with Jamb, for a snack.

[Ed. Note: When I got it, I thought that some/all of the "Iamb"s (capital
"i") were "lambs" (lower-case "L"). The picture of Jack being eaten by a
baby sheep had me giggling uncontrollably for quite a while!)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.swarpa.net/pipermail/fictionary/attachments/20150411/9d4f613a/attachment.html