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<div>At 12:09 PM -0400 9/18/09, Judith Schrier wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Here's the results: Half of you saw
right through my White-banded Wolf Snake, leaving the rest to scramble
for the remaining 20 points...but there is a three-way tie at
the top! What's the official way to deal with that?</blockquote>
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<div>Very sorry to hear about your techtastrophe, Judith!</div>
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<div>Since I was responsible for one of the four-point definitions
(the heresy), and I pegged the true definition, I think I may have
won... unless Nick or Pierre who also pegged the Snake (ouch, that
sounds subtextual! ;-) were the author of one of the other four-point
definitions in which case we're tied. Nick? Pierre? (Jean-Joseph
has already told us that his def was the infection types)</div>
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<div>-Jim</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Septentrionalis:</i> Literally, seven
plow oxen, now used as the Linnean name,<i> Dinodon
septentrionalis,</i> of the White-banded Wolf Snake<b>.<br>
</b>Origin: A Latin word indicating the seven stars of Ursa
Major or Minor.<br>
NINE POINTS<br>
<b>Jim Moskowitz:</b> 2 points<br>
<b>Nicolas Ward:</b> 2 points. Specific and to the point!<br>
<b>Kir Talmage:</b> Oxen? Snakes? Bears? O my!<br>
<b>Pierre Abbat:</b> Two points for explaining what
"septen-" has to do with north.<br>
<b>Jean-Joseph Cote:</b> Sounds good to me. Two
points.<br>
<b>Ranjit Bhatnagar:</b> Ohh, seven stars pointing to North Star would
explain the northerly</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>connection. 1 point for clearing
that up for me (whether or not it's true)</blockquote>
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