[Fictionary] PIGWIDGEON recount results

[Fran Poodry]

OK, I will pick a word. I'll try to get a candidate out this weekend.
-Fran

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:35 AM, eLLioTT morEton <em at swarpa.net> wrote:

> Dear Fictionary,
>
> Right, I screwed up the tally pretty bad.  Here are the corrected returns,
> which, as Fran and Jean-Joseph pointed out, show a three-way tie between
> Fran, Jean-Joseph, and Pierre.  Pierre has suggested the following:
>
> ``J-J picked celatone in 2015-08, preceded shortly by Grounation Day. I
> picked sacbe/zemi-john in 2015-02. Fran picked hobday in 2014-10. I propose
> therefore that Fran pick a word, and if someone knows it then I pick a
> word, and if someone knows it then J-J pick a word.''
>
> That sounds fine to me, so as lame-duck roundmeister, I hereby ordain that
> it be made so.  Fran?
>
> Apologies again for screwing that up, yall.
>
> Regards,
> em
>
>
> pigwidgeon (v.t.)  To force an oversized joint of meat into a pot or
>> kettle.
>>
>> JACOB 2 = Ranjit 2
>>
>> Hutch:  Very tempting! Had I not decided it had to be something fairy, I
>> coulda gone here. Give this one an imaginary tie-breaker vote.
>>
>> Ranjit:  2 points for the pig-wedging
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  In Welsh lore, a spirit of benevolent chaos which visits
>> farms and stirs up animals and objects.  Visits result in lost items being
>> found, recovery of relationships gone bad, and refreshing change.
>>
>> FRAN 4 = Linda 2  Hutch 1  correct guess 1
>>
>> Linda:  Two points for the Welsh benevolent spirit if it cleans up some
>> of my clutter.
>>
>> Hutch:  Due to the link to Harry Potter, I'm voting for the fairy tale
>> definitions: 1 point
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A sugar packet used as a wedge to prop up a wobbly
>> table. (v.) To use a pigwidgeon.
>>
>> RANJIT 0
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  The fattest clay pigeon that can be shot out of the
>> skeet-throwing machine.
>>
>> LINDA 2 = David 2
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A device for lifting a stone, consisting of several
>> parts that
>> are assembled in a hole in the top of the stone.
>>
>> PIERRE 4 = Fran 2  Jean-Joseph 1  correct guess 1
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A whortleberry tart.
>>
>> DAVID 0
>>
>> Hutch:  Also tempting, but from a different point of view. I'm hungry!
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  1.  A fairy, dwarf, imp, or elf.  2.  (Derogatory) A
>> small or insignificant person or thing; a stupid or contemptible person.
>>
>> OED 6 = Fran 1  Pierre 1  Hutch 2  Jean-Joseph 2
>>
>> Hutch:  Due to the link (?) to Harry Potter, i'm voting for the fairy
>> tale definitions. As my recollection seems to indicate that the owl named
>> Pigwidgeon was a very small owl, I'm giving this one my 2-point vote: 2
>> points
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A wedge of iron, used to support a piece of iron which is
>> being shaped.
>>
>> JOSH 3 = Pierre 2  David 1
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A blue and yellow fish, sometimes with spots, sometimes
>> with warts.
>>
>> JEAN-JOSEPH 4 = Linda 1  Ranjit 1  correct guess 2
>>
>> Pierre:  Of what family? What shape? Any other features? This is about as
>> vague as the
>> dogdrave.
>>
>> Ranjit:  1 point for the fishy fish fish
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  Under Elizabethan pre-Imperial unit standardization, the
>> amount of wood that one subject may take from a royal forest each winter
>> month.
>>
>> NICK 0
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> ____________________
>>
>> HUTCH submitted no def, but gets 2 points for a correct guess.
>>
>> ============================================================
>> ====================
>> Joke defs:
>>
>>
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A tove with a doupee.
>>
>> JEAN-JOSEPH
>>
>>
>> pigwidgeon (n.) - the feeling of sheer joy felt on election night when
>> your favored candidate, against all probability, wins
>>
>> DAVID
>>
>>
>>


-- 
*Fran Poodry*
*Oregon, USA*



*“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret Mead
<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead>*
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