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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net"
title=lindafowens@netzero.net>lindafowens</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net"
title=lindafowens@netzero.net>lindafowens</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:23 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Ranjit triumphs!</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Dear All, Linguists beat Penguins,
12-8. This was fun, but long, so I hope I tabulated it all
right. Your turn, Ranjit!
<P class=MsoNormal>…AND HERE ARE THE RESULTS!!!!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(FOR LIPOXENY)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>General Comments: </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Wow, a fine lot we had this time…. Elliott</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>They all sound totally bogus…. Judith</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Every one of the defs is ridiculous!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eric</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>I will dismiss immediately any definition pertaining to fat or strangers,
as they seem too obvious. Jean-Joseph</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny n. the ability of penguins to regulate the amount of
blood circulation to their feet and flippers to maintain body temperature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This adaption provides for insulation
from the cold in cold climates and for radiation of heat in hot climates.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>NORA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>8 points (7
plus 1 point for correct guess)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2 points (Eric)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>1 point( Judith, Pierre, Aussie, Fran, Joe)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>By Kir? Is Kir even playing these days?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Judith.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One point for being completely
unrelated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Probably the real thing. But insulation=fat, so this is out.
Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Yes, I worry about this sort of thing. One point.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aussie</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Penguins in hot climates?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amy [Amy, I believe that the underlying
factor is Southern Hemisphere. I think there are some species of penguins in the
equatorial Galapagos. Linda]</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Two points because penguins are cute.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eric</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Ah, yes, I must have read about this in <I>Penguin Drivers of
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan</I> by G.A. Henty.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Elliott</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>1 point, because hey, penguins. Gotta vote for penguins.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Joe</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nora speaks:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
used to work at the Philadelphia Zoo, which is where I heard about the
Penguins.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I looked up their ability
to regulate their circulation, but I couldn’t find a dinge word that described
it, and I thought there ought to be. I am guessing that Ranjit will guess that I
am the one who came up with that one.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>A note about ducks from Linda: our family has had pet ducks
for over 30 years: Muscovies, Rouens, Pekins, and Cayugas, mostly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are supposed to have this ability
to shut down the circulation in their feet in cold weather, but one Christmas
Eve the temp went from rainy and above freezing to below zero in a few hours,
and even flowers being delivered by a florist froze from her truck to the
houses.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Two of our larger male
Muscovies who did not go inside their shelter got frostbitten feet. My son Jon
and I washed and dried their feet for a few nights and applied Neosporin.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We also made sure there was ample hay
for bedding inside their communal houses.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When the warm weather arrived a few months later, the feet turned black
and fell off.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These two got along
on stumps, which widened at the base, for several years; and one even made it
through six winters, after we made him a separate nesting box in which to keep
warm<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(ducks warm their feet
alternately under their wings).</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny-n.-the measure of solid particulate matter in
testing automotive emissions.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>AUSSIE 0, sorry.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Melissa?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like David Randall.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nah, Why would it be just for car exhaust?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny-n.-a glue made from rendered horse fat</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>DAVID</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2 points<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Nora)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I give this two points, and it sounds like it could be the
real definition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like David Randall, too.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Fat. No. You use hooves, not fat.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a protein thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
state of flehman as displayed in the reduncinated antelopes of Chad and
Sudan.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>PIERRE<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>0,
sorry.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Um..Jean-Joseph, why not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I don’t know what flehman is, but it sounds fat, so no go,
but I’ll guess that this is from Pierre.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>If they can provide additional definitions for flehman and
reduncinated, I’d vote for this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Joe</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny, n. The property, in a natural fat, wax, or fatty
acid, of having a double bond at a distance from the end that is not a multiple
of 3.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>PIERRE<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>6 points
(plus 0 from above=4)(plus correct guess=2)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2 points<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(David,
Fran)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Fat. Yer out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’ll guess Joe, for no particular reason.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Elliott</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Elliott?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(rhetoric) the act of speaking or writing under self-imposed linguistic
constraints, e.g. using only monosyllabic words or avoiding the letter ‘e’.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>RANJIT<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>12
points</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2 points ( Aussie, Amy, Judith, Joe)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>1 point (Eric, Jean-Joseph, David, Elliott)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Very nice! Two points! Aussie</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Ooh, I like that , two points. Amy</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>J-J. Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Kir. She must be thinking of lipograms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I was thinking of the Texas haiku. Linda</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>…It’s cool to have a conversation with someone while using
words of one syllable. They’ll realize you’re not quite normal, but not exactly
how.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eric</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>A number of years ago, some friends introduced me to a game
called Talk Four, in which you are allowed to use only words which have four
letters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are some subtle
rules as well, but I’ll warn people that it’s very addictive, and can mess up
your brain for days on end. Talk Four good game, uses only four part, many folk
find very hard quit play this. Despite the fact that “lipoxeny” doesn’t have
four letters, I’ll give it one point.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">Damn, what’s a lipogram?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can’t remember. I’ll risk one point on
this one.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Elliott</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">I like this def, but I have a hard
time believing there’s a word for that. However, I have nothing else left to
vote for, so I’ll give it 2 points.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Joe</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny, n.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>in
botany, the abandoning of its host by a parasitic plant.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, 2<SUP>nd</SUP> Edition<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>4 points</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2 points (Pierre)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>1 point (Nora, Amy)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>…It sounds like Ranjit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Rhatany Sanders-Wood.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Like ivy picks up and crawls away? Maybe. One point.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amy</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Oh? And how would it go about doing this?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does the strangler fig just crawl
away?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or does it latch onto some
passing tree?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the Wandering Jew
or Virginia Creeper were parasitic, it would be a different story but….<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Linda: Haven’t you seen the old sci-fi film, <I>The Creeping
Unknown</I>?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Also from<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Linda:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a better
explanation from “lipoxenous” [Gr. lipo-, to leave, lack, or want, and Gr.
xenos, host] designating certain parasitic fungi which desert their host and
complete their development from the reserve previously taken from it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wish the poison ivy around here would
take a hint.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny-n.- Obligation of a property owner to pay for the
burial expenses of a tenant farmer, in exchange for which he would receive the
labor of the widow and orphans of the deceased for a specified period of
time.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>JEAN-JOSEPH 0, sorry.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Hmmm. Elliott or David surely…But WHICH?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ok, I will take a gamble: david
randall.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Elliott Moreton.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Me, not Elliott. But I’d be interested if anyone thinks it
was him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sounds like the Seinfeld “obligated to be your butler”
plot.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aussie</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny-n.- (Med.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The state of being a stranger to fat. Also called “Sprat Syndrome”.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>JEAN-JOSEPH 2 (plus 0 from above)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2 points (Elliott)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Hutch. Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This could also be Ranjit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>;-)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Tee Hee!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Aussie</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I could almost believe it, but not quite. Elliott</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The treble whammy of fat, strangeness, and the fact that it’s
also mine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny: A stew composed of mushrooms, carrots, onions, and
the mouth parts of large cattle.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>JUDITH 1</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>1 point (Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Fran. Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I blame Nora for that! Ox-lip stew?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1 point for silly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Eeeuw! I’ll take a bowl of garbure over this any day!
Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny: Brand name for a carpenters’ glue made from animal
fat.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>JUDITH 1 (0 plus 1 from above)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Aussie maybe?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Melissa Shaner.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Fat. Fat. Fat. You don’t make glue from fat. You can make it
from milk, but it’s not the fat part that makes it work, it’s the casein.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And glue is pretty much plastics these
days, anyway. Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipo-epoxy… I like the brand name excuse. But two glue
definitions?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amy</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny (n.)- A show of contrition intended to evoke mercy
from one who is doling out punishment.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>JOE 6 points</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2 points (Ranjit, Jean-Joseph, Arthur)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Snibor Eoj. Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Clever!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2
pts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Two points by the process of elimination. Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny The practice of kissing strangers to avert bad luck
in case of accidental invocation of said bad luck.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>FRAN 0, sorry.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like JJ Cote. Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Also clever! I wish I had 2 more pts. to give.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Huh? I’m not sure what this means, but I think maybe I can
use it as an excuse to kiss attractive women whose acquaintance I haven’t
made.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“(smmmmooch!) Oh, that was
just to ward off the evil spirits, you know, lipoxeny…..”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“(slap!)”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jean-Joseph</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Lipoxeny, n pl.fat children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“And to my lipoxeny I bequeath my
supplies of Jennie Craig weight-loss products, and my Stairmaster 2000.”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>ERIC 0, sorry.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Honorary ½ point from Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This sounds like Ranjit Bhatnagar. Pierre</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Hee! Ranjit</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I’d give this one a half point if I could because it is so
funny!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>…Maybe Aussie if she managed
to be able to play this round. Nora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Progeny with lipids, I don’t think so. Jean-Joseph</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Beautiful! One should always make provisions for the
lipoxeny! Aussie</P>
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