<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div><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------<br><br></div><div>First, general comments:<br></div><div><br>Ranjit Bhatnagar: Out of cagastrism, I eliminated all the ones about digestion or metabolism, leaving two.<br>J-J Cote: Since all of these look suspicious, I'll vote for the ones that look the least likely. Two points for the releasing of latches, and one for the Polish trainer.<br>Linda F Owens: Did I even get a chance to make up a def? Can't remember back that far. One point for the auroxes and two for the ear wax--hope they aren't mine. Oh, I get rid of ear wax with ear coning--but I have to get my husband to cone my ears and he always seems to be too busy lately. He likes having his coned however. Very relaxing. Alternate method is H2O2--a little dripped in and later swabbed out gently. Linda<br><br>And a special treat:<br><br> When the last aurochs died<br> Under an evil star<br> The trainer of them sighed<br> And so he traveled far.<br> His cerumen flows now<br> For never more he'd drink<br> The milk of ancient cow<br> He could not bear to think.<br> The doc dripped in his ear<br> The drug till it was full<br> That again he could hear<br> The lowing of the bull.<br> - Pierre Abbat -<br><br></div><div>And now the detailed results:<br></div><div><br>cagastric - adj. - a remark that makes one cringe. His cagastric remark about my hair made me want to run into the shower and wash out all that lime green glitter gel.<br>Linda F Owens : 0<br><br>cagastric - adj. - releasing two latches at the same time to fling down a rope. Axaractes pulled the cagastric trigger, and Phidippides and the other runners started racing.<br>Pierre Abbat : 4<br> Ranjit Bhatnagar : 1<br> Fran Poodry : 1<br> J-J Cote : 2<br></div><div> [Ed. Note: I must say that I never did figure this one out.]<br></div><div><br>cagastric - adj. - relating to or caused by the body's digestive processes but not of them. The patient was suffering a cagastric soreness after three days of diarrhea, and was prescribed a healing cream to apply after subsequent episodes.<br>Fran Poodry : 0<br><br>cagastric - n. - [fr. Polish] a trainer of war aurochses. The cagastric walked forlornly along the streets of Vilna, sighing for the steppes of his youth.<br>David Randall : 8 (votes) + 2 (correct guess) = 10<br> Ranjit Bhatnagar : 2<br> Fran Poodry : 2<br> J-J Cote : 1<br> Pierre Abbat : 2 [Aurochsen (the second part is cognate to "ox", and the German plural ends in "en"). Two points] [Ed. Note: I would have thought "auroxen" myself, similar to the plural for computer cases (and computers in general) "boxen" (from "Vaxen", the plural for Vax miniframes) :-D ]<br> Linda F Owens : 1<br><br>cagastric - adj. - of diseases, originating under an ill star. We no longer believe in cagastric causes for illness and deformity.<br>Real definition - 4<br> David Randall : 2 [But scrofula comes from Aldebaran in the summer sky]<br> Melissa Shaner : 2<br><br>cagastric - n. - a medication that inhibits the production of earwax. This study investigated the antifungal properties of ripesterone, which is normally prescribed as a diaphoretic and a cagastric.<br>Jean-Joseph Cote : 5<br> David Randall : 1 ["The Joshua Randall Award for Earwaxical Vocabulary" -- my son Joshua has been fascinated with earwax over the years.]<br> Pierre Abbat : 1 [This is obviously the real one, from Greek κακο αστρο.] [Ed. Note: I hope Pierre's Greek comes through: "kako astro" or have I misread it?]<br> Linda F Owens : 2<br> Melissa Shaner : 1 [The cerumen makes me suspicious but 1]<br><br></div></div>
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