[Fictionary] CELATONE ballot

[J-J Cote (jjcote at alum.mit.edu)]

The kid has been deposited at college, and I'm on my way home. If you haven't voted, you have until tonight to get your ballot in.

Jean-Joseph


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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Jean-Joseph Cote <jjcote at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Here are some propositions (with no prepositions) as to the meaning of CELATONE.  Give me your onesey-twosey opinions and any appropriate commentary or heckling by the time I return from delivering a young friend to his freshman dorm at James Madison University; I'm due back Thursday evening, 27 September.

Jean-Joseph
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celatone - n. - A fountain designed to produce spectacular ice in winter.

CELATONE - n. - A brand of plastic color filters used for tinting lighting in theater and film.

celatone - n. - (Fm. Gk.) The state of euphoria after successfully completing a feat of physical strength or agility.

celatone - n. - Any instrument or appliance used to simulate the sound of crunching celery by Foley artists with oral allergies.

celatone - n. - A helmet with a telescope in place of one of the eyeholes, for observing the moons of Jupiter by a sailor sitting in a gimbaled chair.  Invented by Galileo Galilei.

celatone - adj. - The quality of being just at the edge of the human range of hearing.  Example: While most birds sing in the audible range, the celatone whistle of the Louisiana Waterthrush can seem painfully high.

Celatone - n. - A translucent sea-green hard plastic used to make refrigerator shelves and drawers, drinking glasses, and other useful items.  Once popular in the early 1960's, it was revived for many uses in the 1980's.

celatone - n. - 1) A nineteenth-century lotion made from celery; the product was sold by Hartwick Brothers of Rochester, NY, between 1854 and 1897. 2) A light-green color, halfway between celadon and celery. 3) A jocular euphemism for a nauseous appearance.

celatone - n. - A gum-based ink formulation for drawing on cellulose acetate. Celatone ink was the first technique permitting the use of opaque colors on an animation cel; previous inks and paints all allowed the background to show through non-black areas. (From cel + latex + tone.)



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