<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15.4545450210571px;line-height:15.6818180084229px;white-space:pre-wrap">Please assign two points to one option and one point to a second option. The entry with the most points by TOMORROW EVENING PACIFIC TIME (Tuesday, 10/21/14) will be declared the winner!</span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15.4545450210571px;line-height:15.6818180084229px;white-space:pre-wrap">-Fran</span></font></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. An extra 12-hour period inserted every second year in the Revised Druidic Calendar.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. The day you clean out the ashes from the wood-stove or fireplace. Usually Saturday morning.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. (Northamptonshire dial.) - 1) All Hallow's Eve; 2) any night (e.g, the summer solstice) when unnatural spirits are supposed to roam freely</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. The occurrence on a Sunday of what would otherwise be a holiday from work.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - v. Operate on (a horse) to improve its breathing by pinning back the vocal fold in the larynx (Named after Sir Frederick T. G. Hobday (1869–1939), the British veterinary surgeon who introduced the technique.)</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. A rainy day spent indoors.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. One who purposely affects an accent to appear foreign.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. 1. A group of forced laborers in medieval Spain. 2. The system of forced labor in medieval Spain.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. A decorative hob, usually scalloped and perforated with radial or whorled designs; originally the solid burner cover for a cast-iron stove was referred to as a "hobnight"; the decorative "hobday" was intended to be used for cooking during the day; it was abandoned almost immediately when it was discovered to provide considerably worse heat transfer than the solid "hobnight", which in time dropped the last syllable to become "hob".</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - v. To procrastinate on household cleaning.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">hobday - n. A deadline which is chosen for convenience rather than for the requirements of the project. "I'll be on vacation next week, so let's set a hobday for the following Monday."</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Fran Poodry</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Physics Educational Technology Specialist</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Vernier Software and Technology</div></div>
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