[Fictionary] BOOLEYING results

[Fran Poodry]

Oooh, Thanks for sending that email, Linda! I was traveling for work and
saw the fictionary message but didn't recall it when I got home. I think
that since I voted for Linda's def, You should be the winner, Linda!

-Fran

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:21 AM lindafowens at netzero.net <
lindafowens at netzero.net> wrote:

> HI, All, Congrats to Fran and JJ, And Fran let me know if you do Not want
> to be It, ASAP, so I can plan--busy summer coming up--lots of family
> things.  JJ, I forget--what happens at Jukola and where is it???  I
> understand about finishing being the goal, as my son Adrian and his wife
> Allison sometimes have entered a 10,000-strong ski race in either Norway or
> Sweden and it's the same--the journey is the goal.  .Birkebeiner???   Or
> maybe it's running--anyway, it is too exhausting to even contemplate.  But
> our son Jon has entered and often won Adventure Races in various places
> that often take days to complete.  He and friends actually climbed Mt.
> Shasta in 24 hours! Including an hour nap for altitude sickness treatment.
>  LInda  As for cricket, I was reading the Grantchester mysteries by James
> Runcie and cricket figures in them a lot.  As for the interferences, our
> son Greg used to construct golf or croquet courses for himself and friends
> or party goers on our front lawn or running into the front field with hay
> bales, old junk, trees, bushes, and other hazards and a wiggly mown path
> --very funny. His silly golf course was named Tangleweeds.  It was his
> therapy while he was recovering from elbow surgery in HS, as was playing
> the guitar. Can't keep up with the younger set.  Yikes! My twins turn 50
> soon!
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Jean-Joseph Cote <jjcotedsl at verizon.net>
> To: fictionary group <fictionary at swarpa.net>
> Subject: [Fictionary] BOOLEYING results
> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 08:36:19 -0400
>
> We've got a tie on points between Fran and Linda, but since one of Linda's
> votes came from Fran, I'll use that as a tiebreaker and arbitrarily pass
> the torch to Fran, if she wants it.  And since nobody asked, my team came
> in 1468th at Jukola (we did finish, which is more than you can say for some
> teams!).
>
> Jean-Joseph
> _________________________________________________
>
> booleying - n. - An acrid Yunnanese tea.
> by David.  Ranjit 2 = 2 points
> Ranjit: Two tea points.
>
> booleying - n. - Using an offset block pulley to lift a load.
> by Nick.  David 1, Linda 2 = 3 points
> Linda: something my dad might have invented
>
> booleying - n. - Decorative carving on a picture frame consisting of a
> series of raised dots.
> by Ranjit.  Pierre 2 = 2 points
>
> Booleying - n. - In cricket, going around an object like a tree instead of
> declaring an interference.
> by Linda.  Eric 1, Ranjit 2, Fran 1 = 4 points
> Eric: One point, because my sister says so.
> Ranjit: I will believe any nonsense about cricket.
> Jean-Joseph: Where are you playing cricket?  A tree?  And going around,
> what the...?  This sounds more like croquet.
>
> booleying - n. - A game in which one player presents an argument and the
> others identify the syllogism, if it's sound, or the fallacy, if it isn't.
> by Pierre. 1 for correct guess = 1 point
> Jean--Joseph: Is the really the only def that's even vaguely related to
> "Boolean"?
>
> booleying - n. - Of windshield wipers, gradually beating in and out of
> phase so as to alternate between removing the rain and concentrating it.
> by Elliott.  Fran 2, Linda 1 = 3 points
> Linda: for imagination
> Pierre: The only wipers I've seen beating are on buses; the fields of
> wiping of the wipers do not overlap. On cars, the fields of wiping overlap,
> and the wipers are phase-locked.
>
> booleying - n. - (Irish) The agricultural tradition of taking cattle up to
> the high open lands to graze during the summer months. See
> *transhumance. *by some Irish people. Pierre 1 = 1 point
> Pierre: "Bó" means (and is cognate to) "cow".
> Jean-Joseph: In retrospect, I'm not sure if this is really a legit English
> word, as opposed to just plain Irish, but the -ing suffix looks kind of
> English.
>
> booleying - n. - (also booling) A repair made with whatever material is
> close at hand, rather than a proper repair job.
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  - v. - (booley, booleying) To repair with materials
> close at hand.
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  see also:
> *jury-rig *by Fran.  Eric 2, David 2 = 4 points
> Eric: Two points, for plausible.
>
>
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*Fran Poodry*
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