I'm sorry, I completely forgot to count the best guess points! And I made some other errors as well. In another 15 years when I win again, I will try to do better!<br><br>Larry<br><br>On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, J-J Cote <<a href="mailto:jjcote@alum.mit.edu">jjcote@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 1/3/2012 5:57 AM, Ellen Sasse wrote:<br>><br>> Er, shouldn't that be 2 points for Jim?<br>><br>> Actually, it goes deeper than that:<br>><br>> 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>
><br>> 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>
><br>> Jean-Joseph<br>><br>><br>><br>> --- On Mon, 1/2/12, Lawrence Miller <<a href="mailto:ajacs1@gmail.com">ajacs1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> (...)<br>> 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>> (...)<br>><br>>