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On 1/3/2012 5:57 AM, Ellen Sasse wrote:
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Er, shouldn't that
be 2 points for Jim?<br>
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Actually, it goes deeper than that:<br>
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Ranjit got 6 points -- correct.<br>
Jimmosk got 2 points, not 3 (addition error).<br>
Eric got 4 points -- correct.<br>
The real def got 4 points, not 3 (Ellen's vote counted incorrectly).<br>
Nick got 3 points -- correct.<br>
Jean-Joseph got 6 points, not 4 (forgot to count points for correct
guess)<br>
Linda got 0 points -- correct.<br>
Hutch got 0 points -- correct.<br>
David got 4 points -- correct.<br>
Pierre got 0 points -- correct.<br>
and Ellen gets 2 points for guessing correctly, though she didn't
submit a definition.<br>
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So that means that I'm tied with Ranjit for first, but I'll defer to
him, because I suspect that my correct guess was influenced by the
three years of Spanish that I took in high school back in the 1970s.<br>
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Jean-Joseph<br>
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--- On <b>Mon, 1/2/12, Lawrence Miller <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ajacs1@gmail.com"><ajacs1@gmail.com></a></i></b>
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albondiga, n. A ritual exchange of gifts between the
elders of warring Bedouin tribes.<br>
- 0 points from Ellen: "If they're warring, why are
they exchanging gifts? ('Tis the season, I suppose,
for fictioneers to have gifts on their minds)"<br>
- 1 point from Nick: "This doesn't sound like what
little Touareg etc. that I've heard, but I'll give it
1 point for not being of Spanish origin."<br>
- 1 point from Pierre.<br>
3 points for Jimmosk<br>
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