[Fictionary] UCALEGON ballot

[Fran Poodry]

1 point:
ucalegon - n. - The part of a parasitic barnacle that wraps around the
internal organs of the host.

2 points:
ucalegon - n. - In thermionics, a two-terminal component through which heat
can flow in only one direction.  (Properly used only of the convective heat
diode or 'turnstile of Anaxagoras', but commonly applied to other designs
as well.)


Kinda surprised none of the joke defs reference that commercial from the
80's where the guy at the laundry service tries to tell the white lady that
he can get her clothes cleaner because of an ancient chinese secret, and
then the laundry guy's wife comes out and says "we need more Calgon"
-Fran


On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 8:03 PM Jean-Joseph Cote <jjcotedsl at verizon.net>
wrote:

> Only a few more days until Beethoven's birthday, and I've received only a
> handful of votes, so get those votes in! Remember, you don't have to have
> submitted a definition in order to vote.
>
> On 12/9/2022 12:19 PM, Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:
>
> Here we have several incorrect and one correct definitions for the work
> UCALEGON. As usual, submit your two- and one-point guesses, let's say by
> Beethoven's birthday.
>
> Jean-Joseph
> ____________________________________
>
> ucalegon - adj. - Performing digestion outside of the body.
>
> ucalegon - n. - The dregs remaining after draining a krater of wine.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A three-sided French casserole dish, used for cooking
> squash.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A novelty stringed instrument played like a dulcimer in
> the lap or on a table.
>
> ucalegon - n. - In Zakharov's doctrine of Undetectability, the property of
> not being observed.
>
> ucalegon - n. - The part of a parasitic barnacle that wraps around the
> internal organs of the host.
>
> ucalegon - n. - In thermionics, a two-terminal component through which
> heat can flow in only one direction.  (Properly used only of the convective
> heat diode or 'turnstile of Anaxagoras', but commonly applied to other
> designs as well.)
> ____________________________________
>
> Additional joke definitions -- do not vote!
>
> UCALEGON - Vanity license plate on the car of ghostbuster Egon Spengler,
> who is proud of his Paraphychics degree from Berkeley.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A polygon with twice as many sides as an ithielegon.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A hypothesized noble gas with atomic number 168.
>
> ucalegon - n. - The odd 5-sided shape of a grass area in the University of
> California that they can't call a quad.
>
>

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*Fran Poodry (she/her)*
*Oregon, USA*



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