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The votes are in, and the winner is Pierre with his middle-eastern
bug-borne malady. It's all yours, Pierre!<br>
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General comments -<br>
Ranjit: I'm going to discount all the glimmer defs. I myself was
thinking of that old song: "glow little glow-worm, glimmer,
glimmer..."<br>
Linda: Well, aren't we scraping the bottom of a rather oily barrel!<br>
Joe: I think lots of us were influenced by how much "glima" sounds
like "glimmer". But all of the non-glimmer defs seem a bit too
unbelievable.<br>
Jim: Disdain for whoever got the tune, "Glow, little glow-worm,
glima, glima" stuck in my head.<br>
Elliott: Seem to be a lot of defs influenced by the gl- phonestheme
(gleam, glitter, glint, glow, etc.). <br>
-- If anybody wants more: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myK93FqbYc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myK93FqbYc</a><br>
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glima - n. - The Carolina glowworm, <u> Glima noctiluca </u>.<br>
by Ranjit. Linda 2, Elliott 1, 2 for correct guess = 5 points.<br>
Linda: 2 points for the glowworm (Ranjit?) I seldom vote for the
first def, but....<br>
Elliott: One point for that rare double w. <br>
<u><br>
</u>glima - n. - An iridescent sheen emanating from certain
jellyfish.<br>
by Linda. No points.<br>
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glima - n. - A thin film of oil floating on the surface of a body of
water. <br>
by Joe. Jim 2, Pierre 1, Elliott 2 = 5 points.<br>
Eric: This is "glip" from one of my rounds.<br>
Jim: Strong vote for not being about luminescence, yet sounding
plausible.<br>
Elliott: Sounds vaguely plausible. When I was a kid I read a book
that used a word that, according to the author, meant a layer of
fresh rainwater floating on salt water. I wish I'd written it down,
because I've never seen it again. Anyone know what it is? (Two
points for nostalgia.) <br>
-- see note below<br>
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glima - n. - The aureola typically shown surrounding the image of a
bodhisattva in Tibetan art. <br>
by Eric. Linda 1, Joe 1, Jim 1, 1 for correct guess = 4 points.<br>
Linda: And one point for the aureola because I have a sudden
interest in art history (more European, though) via one of the Great
Courses, and for the use of bodhissattva.<br>
Joe: Sure, let's go with this glimmer.<br>
Jim: Weak vote.<br>
Elliott: Just doesn't sound Tibetan, somehow, probably because of
the initial cluster. <br>
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glima - n. - The Icelandic national style of folk wrestling, which
was a demonstration sport at the 1912 Summer Olympics.<br>
real definition. Ranjit 2, Eric 1, Pierre 2, Hutch 1 = 6 points.<br>
Ranjit: Good one!<br>
Joe: I kind of like this one, but my gut says to me that an
Icelandic sport would be more of a Winter Olympics thing. <br>
Pierre: This sounds realest.<br>
Elliott: Wish this were true, but doubt it. <br>
-- Looks like Elliott gets his wish, because this is the real one.
The 1912 Olympics were held in Stockholm and the Winter Olympics
didn't start for another dozen years. Glima (along with baseball)
was the first official "demonstration sport" at an Olympics,
although the earlier games did have non-medal competitions
(including things like fire fighting, kite flying, and racing
motorboats and motorcycles) that were later considered to have been
demonstration sports. It's worth checking out some recent glima
competetions on YouTube -- it pretty much looks like same-sex
ballroom dancing where you're trying to trip your partner. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMTZhC3e7U&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMTZhC3e7U&feature=related</a><br>
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glima - n. - A disease endemic to Syria and transmitted by gnats,
characterized by red spots and a fever typically lasting four days.<br>
by Pierre. David 2, Joe 2, Eric 2, 2 for correct guess = 8 points
and the win.<br>
Joe: By process of elimination, having discarded all the rest, I
guess this gets my 2 point vote. <br>
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glima - n. - A mining technique, used as a humane alternative to
blasting, in which popcorn kernels are injected into a fissure,
popped by means of hot oil, and then removed by ants. <br>
by Elliott. Ranjit 1, David 1, Hutch 2 = 4 points.<br>
Linda: A big laugh and encouragement for the popcorn mining
technique! We have a lot of scavengers on our minifarm (I released
a squirrel today from the Hav-a-Hart), but ants will do, it seems.<br>
Joe: I would love to see this in action. I'd particularly like to
know how you train the ants.<br>
Jim: Ah, will the wackiness never end? I'll guess this is Elliott,
though it seems sillier than his norm.<br>
Hutch: Popcorn? Ants? *LOL* I don't believe it for a second, but
this one deserves a vote for pure chutzpah and imagination: 2 points<br>
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glima - n. (Pittsburgh dialect, fr. "glimmer") - 1. The appearance
of the Pittsburgh skyline at night, as seen from a speeding
roller-coaster; 2. The appearance of any brightly-lit portion of the
world, when drunk.<br>
by David. No points.<br>
Ranjit: Afflatus award.<br>
Linda: As for the Philly pronunciation, RI uses the "a" ending
instead of "er" as much as possible. Not me, I'm from W.Mass. A
native RIer, my husband has a more NH accent, somehow<br>
Jim: Wins the Jean Shepherd Memorial Midwest Nostalgia Award<br>
Elliott: Any definition is improved by appending ``, when drunk''.
I'll have to try that with fortune cookies. <br>
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And Hutch gets one point for a correct guess even though he didn't
submit a definition.<br>
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Note on the floating layer of fresh water: I did a quick google for
this, and it appears that it's usually called a "lens", though in
some contexts a similar phenomenon is a "Ghyben-Herzberg lens".
There's also a heated discussion on a site that I found about a
passage in the Koran that can be interpreted as meaning that salt
water and fresh water don't mix (by decree of God), that some people
seem to think is a basis for declaring the Koran inaccurate. In any
case, the first time I encountered this layer-of-fresh-water concept
was in the very first round I ever played of fictionary, where it
was one of the fake definitions of "infangtheof". It's one of the
things from this game that burned itself most indelibly into my
mind. Naturally, it was from Elliott (he was running that round,
but also inserted a couple of fake definitions of his own).<br>
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Also worth noting is that the North American Ski Orienteering Middle
Distance Championships, Men's 40+ division, was won yesterday
(pretty commandingly) by Jonathan Owens.<br>
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