[Fictionary] yeggogology results: Nick wins

Mon Aug 27 18:22:16 EDT 2018

I remember my kids, now turning 49, 50, and 50,  putting in certain numbers or operations on their calculators and the answer was Shell Oil.  Earlier manipulations were reading the phone number 77340 upside down, or cutting out the maiden on a Land O' Lakes butter box and folding it to reveal certain parts of her anatomy.  Weirdness has always been with us.  LInda  Yegg as a safecracker is a popular crossword puzzle clue.  

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From: Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: [Fictionary] yeggogology results: Nick wins
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 03:23:49 -0400

I just entered the word at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yeggogology .

I've dabbled in yeggogology on two occasions. First my father had an HP-45, 
which if you press certain three keys at once turns into a stopwatch. Later I 
had an HP-34C and learned how to enter numbers with digits beyond 9. The 
method had something to do with entering instructions and then changing the 
amount of memory allocated to programs versus registers, if I remember right. 
It displayed sixteen characters, "0123456789rFoPE ", using the last six to 
display error messages (P was for "Pr Error", which meant that it lost power; 
I don't know what F was for). Another guy at my dorm in Case Western had come 
up with bleem, an "irrational integer between 6 and 7". I proceeded to enter 
the number 5.dccbeafff in my calculator; the first digit after the point being 
greater than 10, it is in a way between 6 and 7. Trying to calculate with this 
number in decimal resulted in strange behavior.

Pierre
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J-J: On the off chance that my duplicate answer gets any votes, and the even 
more slim chance that I win, I would recuse myself since I had the extra bit 
of knowledge that it _isn't_ about safecracking...

yeggogology, n. The study of cycles and repetition, particularly with regards 
to natural phenomena.
by Nicolas Ward. 5
David 1
Eric: One point.
Ranjit: 1 point, plausible yet not about yeggs
Linda: 1 point for cycles of repetition, ugga bugga, ugga bugga!
J-J: Most ordinary definition award (and therefore likely to win).
Elliott: Because the ``g'' keeps recurring?  Nice.  One point.

yeggogology, n. The study of undocumented features of calculators.
by Russian Hackers. 4
J-J: I'm amused.  Two points.
Elliott: Or, formerly, undocumented features of slide rules.  (``The cursor is 
sharp enough to use as a cigar cutter.''  Two points.)

yeggogology, n. 1. The use of meaningless neologisms, improvised on the spot, 
as swear words.  2.  A word invented for this purpose.
by Elliott Moreton. 4
2 for the hidden stopwatch
Linda: 2 points for the meaningless neologisms, ugga bugga!
J-J: Probably right.  But I'm not going for it.
Elliott: Come on, doesn't ``yeggog'' sound like a swear word?  Nearly all of 
the defs on the ballot involved something reprehensible.

yeggogology, n. The study of oafs.
by Eric Cohen. 3
Ranjit: 2 points for resisting the urge to write "oaves"
J-J: I'm sure somebody gets a doctorate in this.  One point.
Elliott: Is that a subdiscipline of history, or vice versa?

yeggogology, n. The study of safecracking techniques.
by Jean-Joseph Cote. 2
2 for counting to infinity
Elliott: Safecracking def #2.  What in the world does this have to do with 
safecracking?  Are ``yeg'' and ``gog'' underworld slang for ``clockwise'' and 
``counterclockwise''?

Yeggogology (trademark, properly styled "The Yeggogology Personal Growth 
Nexus"), pr.n. An internationally-franchised publishing and retail chain, 
founded in 2006 by Santiago Cazorla.
by Ranjit Bhatnagar. 2
Eric: Two points.

yeggogology, n. The study of criminals who specialize in safe-cracking.
by Linda Owens. 2
David 2

yeggogology, n. The study of the Elder Ones.
by David Randall. 0
Elliott: Gog, Magog, and Yog-Sothog.

J-J: OK, so googling after the fact reveals that my amusement hit the mark, 
and that the etymology of this is hilarious.  And as a side note, when I was 
in eighth grade, my classmate Neil Page had a calculator that did something 
really bizarre if you divided by zero and then pressed the button to display 
additional decimal places (I think the display was only six digit wide).  I'd 
have to see it again to come up with a theory as to what it was doing, but 
what it appeared to be doing was rapidly counting upward, as if it was 
searching possibilities on its way to infinity.
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