<html><div>Sorry, typo--I recall hearing of a movement to shorten many burghs to burg but PIttsburgh got an exemption to keep the h. LInda<br><br>---------- Forwarded Message ----------<br>From: David Randall <withywindle@earthlink.net><br>To: fictionary group <fictionary@swarpa.net><br>Subject: [Fictionary] WANION!<br>Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 20:19:58 -0400<br><br></p><div>Dear All,</div><div> </div><div>Hutch and the Dictionary both have 7 points. The Dictionary says it's Hutch's turn.</div><div> </div><div>Best, David</div><div> </div><div>*******</div><div>Eric: Three ion/electron-related definitions, and I won't have any!</div><div>*******</div><p>RANJIT<br><br>wanion, n. n atom or molecule that is weak and pale due to an excess or deficiency of electronic humors.<br><br>Correct Guess (2) = 2 POINTS</p><div><br>Jean-Joseph: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha</span>…<div> </div><div>Pierre: Hahaha!</div><div>*******<br>PIERRE<br><br>wanion, n. An electronic device used to deplenerate a grammeter.<br><br>Correct Guess (2) + Linda (2) = 4 POINTS</div><div><br>Jean-Joseph: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">A retro/turboencabulator reference, if I'm not mistaken. Nice.</span></div><div>*******</div><div>HUTCH<br><br>wanion, n. [Br. naut. slang.] Any small fish (as sardines) caught on-board and prepared as alternatives to the usual fare of salt beef. Best known for its appearance in the phrase "wi' a wanion" referring to something out of the ordinary and positive. (Origin unknown: Some sources claim that the origin of the term is "with onions"; while other sources state that onions would not have been standard fare on British ships.)<br><br>Jean-Joseph (2) + Melissa (2) + Ranjit (1) + Linda (1) = 7 POINTS<div> </div><div>Jean-Joseph: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Very nice touch, putting in an etymology and then declaring that it's wrong. Two points for boldness, and for the fact that I have nothing snarky to say about this one.</span></div><div> </div><div>Eric: Almost got points, would have been much more plausible had it stopped after the first sentence.</div><div>*******<br>LINDA<br><br>wanion, adj. A popular brand name of the early 1900's often seen on railway cars to describe steel pipes and other products made in PIttsburg, PA, and used in steam powered items, such as locomotives, and mill machinery. Later, in WWI and WWII, Wanion described high-quality steel products of all types.<br><br>0 POINTS</div><div><br>Jean-Joseph: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Pittsburg</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>h</strong></span></div><div>*******<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></strong>DICTIONARY<br><br>wanion, n. Curse; vengeance. From the phrase "in the waniand (mone)", in the time of the waning (moon), i.e., in an unlucky hour.<br><br>Eric (2) + Ranjit (2) + Pierre (2) + Melissa (1) = 7 POINTS</div><div><br>Eric: And so, once again, I must plump for the least-improbable. Two points.</div><div><br>Jean-Joseph: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">I prefer to inflict retribution when I </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">am</span><em> </em><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">feeling lucky.</span></div><div>*******<br>NICK<br><br>wanion, n. In social modeling, an individual who tends towards negative emotions, thus damaging the mood of their clique.</div><div> </div><div>Jean-Joseph (1) = 1 POINT<br><br>Jean-Joseph: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">I get depressed just thinking about the fact that there would be such a thing as "social modeling", but there probably is. Which means that the existence of the field of study itself would alter the thing that it's studying by turning me into a wanion. Assuming I even have a clique. I might be considered a hermit, since the people I hang around with (you guys) I've never even met. After all that, I guess I'd better give this my remaining one point.</span></div><div>*******<br>MYS<br><br>wanion, n. The rent charged by the operators of poorhouses in Victorian England to their tenants.<br><br>Correct Guess (1) + Eric (1)+ Pierre (1) = 3 POINTS</div><div><br>Eric: Perhaps more plausible than the curse, but I can't give it more than one point because I HATE TO THINK THAT VICTORIAN POORHOUSES CHARGED RENT. One point.</div><div>*******<br>ERIC<br><br>wanion, n. The wheeled sled used for warm-weather practice of natural track luge.</div></div><div> </div><div>Correct Guess (2) = 2 POINTS</div><div> </div><div>Jean-Joseph: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">So this is to street luge as mountain biking is to road biking? I know a guy who does (or at least used to do) street luge. He has no teeth, but I think it's unrelated -- he still had a few when I met him.</span></div></div></html>
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