<div dir="ltr"><div>There are definitely times when certain people really just shouldn't bother getting out of bed. I coulda swore I had prepared this and sent it off last week, but I can't find the file and I definitely DIDN'T send anything.<br><br>Anyway, the real definition won, so I'll just pick another ... [shut him up / drag 'em off stage / get a rope!] or perhaps not :-D<br><br>In reality, we have a tie for the lead between David Randall and J-J Cote. However, David's stuffed the ballot box with his "Inspirational Poem" included below, so I declare David Randall the winner.<br><br>Linda's note echoes my opinion. Eric's "power noise" from "the California proto-punk movement" is without a doubt one of the most original fictionitions we've had in a long time! Kudos, sir!!!<br><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div>BB,</div><div>Hutch</div><div> </div><div>-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----</div><div>Version: 3.1</div><div>GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$</div><div>N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?</div><div>X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++></div><div>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------</div></div><br>------------------------------<br><br>jack - n - medieval leather coat worn as armour<br>jamb - n - metal leg-armour<br>jaseran - n - fine chain mail jacket<br>by Reality (<a href="http://phrontistery.info/j.html">http://phrontistery.info/j.html</a>) 6<br>David Randall, 2<br>J-J Cote, 2<br>fictioneric, 2 ("Well, that's a real definition of 'jack', one I deliberately steered clear of because I thought it was one of the known ones we were supposed to ignore. So unless someone's being sneaky, these are the real defs. I won't vote for them, since knowing one seems like cheating." Ed. Note: This was definitely NOT one of the 'known' definitions to ignore; although he disclaimed it because of 'knowing' [one of] the correct definitions, I gave it to him as a correct guess anyway.)<br><br>jack - v - [fr. Malay] - to dive for pearls<br>jamb - n - [fr. Malay] - a black pearl<br>jaseran - n - [fr. Malay] a pearl thief<br>by David Randall -- 5 (including 2 point correct guess)<br>Ranjit Bhatnagar, 1<br>Linda Owens, 1<br>Nicholas Ward, 1 ("1 point for believable transliteration")<br><br>jack - n - a special type of incense used at certain Indian wedding festivals. Jack is slang for many different varieties, but usually flowery and spicy, not intoxicating.<br>jamb - n - the liquid oil poured sparingly over jack to activate the fragrance and make it smoulder.<br>jaseran - n - the container, usually ceramic with inlaid metallic bits, in which jack and jamb are co-mingled.<br>by lindafowens -- 3<br>David Randall, 1<br>Pierre Abbat, 2<br><br>jack - n - A smooth stone disk fastened to a piling of a jaseran to keep rodents from entering.<br>jamb - v - To fasten netting to the slat walls of a jaseran so as to allow air to enter, in order to dry the grain, but keep flying animals out<br>jaseran - n - An elevated granary built on pilings.<br>by Pierre Abbat -- 1<br>J-J Cote, 1<br><br>jack - n - A cigarette rolled in birchbark.<br>jamb - v - To soak a cigar in dilute ether in order to tighten the wrapper.<br>jaseran - n - A humidor with a clockwork mechanism to slowly roll the cigars<br>by Jean-Joseph Cote -- 5 (including 2 point correct guess)<br>Nicholas Ward, 2 ("2 points for medieval simplicity")<br>fictioneric, 1 ("One point because I like my cigarettes jambed. Aficionados use a jaseran to evenly distribute the ether in newly-jambed cigars; the traditional clockwork device was used to prevent the danger of fire from sparking in ether vapor, attendant upon the use of early electric motors. Nowadays, cheap battery-powered jaserans are used by hoi polloi.")<br><br>jack - n - The inner bark layers of a Stone pine (Pinus pinea).<br>jamb - n - The outer bark layers of a Stone pine (Pinus pinea).<br>jaseran - n - A style of chair popular in Moorish Spain whose seat is formed from overlapping jack and jamb.<br>by Nicolas Ward -- 3<br>Linda Owens, 2<br>Pierre Abbat, 1 ("One travished point." Ed Note: Was "travished" an old fictionary word? Whazzit mean?)<br><br>jack - n - Genre of power noise music developed in the 1970s as an outgrowth of the California proto-punk movement.<br>jamb - n - A breadboarded RC (resistive-capacitative) unit used to customize or distort the sound of early Ampex multitrack recorders, repopularized in the retro-noise esthetic of the 1990s.<br>Jaseran - - styled lowercase jaseran: Mononym of keyboardist and recording engineer Jason Emkanian, best known for his avant-garde and noise rock work at Grey-Grey-Grey recording studio in Modesto, California, circa 1995-2005.<br>fictioneric -- 4 (including 2 point correct guess)<br>Ranjit Bhatnagar, 2<br>Nicholas Ward ("Hehe retronoise")<br></div>Linda Ward ("Honorable mention to the CA music stuff. I'd believe anything about CA,
even though one of my sons lives there and is quite traditional.")<div><br>-----<br><br>An Inspirational Poem<br>by David Randall<br><br>Jack found himself in a terrible Jamb,<br>Helpless before the Iamb that Iamb;<br>"Jaseran!" swore he. "By Jimbo! By Gee!<br>Jumpin' Jehosophat! Fiddle-dee-dee!"<br>But swearing was futile, and finally Jack<br>Was et by the Iamb, with Jamb, for a snack.<br><br>[Ed. Note: When I got it, I thought that some/all of the "Iamb"s (capital "i") were "lambs" (lower-case "L"). The picture of Jack being eaten by a baby sheep had me giggling uncontrollably for quite a while!)<br><br></div></div>