<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Linda. I know Eric and Elliott from their youths. It's a pleasure to meet the rest of y'all.<div>Helen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:24 AM, <a href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net">lindafowens@netzero.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net" target="_blank">lindafowens@netzero.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Welcome, Helen! The real name of the wax-dripping tool is djanting. I have several. I used to make, teach, and sell batik. The Indonesians are famous for theirs, which is usually produced using wax-dipped wood block carvings. They put the wax on from both sides of the cloth. I was a lot more flamboyant in my designs, but many of them resembled medieval scenes, as we were into SCA with our kids back then--yikes! starting in the late 70's--and I made some banners. Batik was a medieval craft during the middle ages in Indonesia, but also a similar technique of wax resist was used to decorate etched armor in Europe, and for pysanky eggs in Poland and Russia. As for pathogens associated with health, I read recently that probiotics were invented during some war--WWI or WWII? when some wounded men suffered from severe diarrhea and were only helped from--yuk!--enemas of feces from healthy wounded guys. I'm sure the probiotics I sometimes use presently in tea or capsules are sterilized in some way. LInda <div><div class="h5"><br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: <a href="mailto:fictioneric@inbox.com" target="_blank">fictioneric@inbox.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:fictionary@swarpa.net" target="_blank">fictionary@swarpa.net</a><br>Subject: [Fictionary] djent and amberat, results<br>Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 18:42:19 -0400<br><br>Sorry I have been so slow.<br><br>Nicolas is our winner, with eight points total across two definitions <br>and a correct vote for amberat! Welcome, also, to new player Helen, <br>who came in second with her well-beloved ice-moving tool.<br><br><br>The real definitions:<br><br>djent, n. In music, a subgenre of prog-metal characterized by use of <br>high-gain, palm-muted, low-pitch guitar sounds, and low-tuned, <br>open-note, syncopated riffing,<br><br>It's onomatopoeic, and, yes, it is a thing:<br><br><a href="http://got-djent.com/faq#t1100n1922" target="_blank">http://got-djent.com/faq#<wbr>t1100n1922</a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/03/djent-metal-geeks" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr>music/2011/mar/03/djent-metal-<wbr>geeks</a><br><br>Credit to Linda who pegged this as the real def.<br><br><br>amberat, n. A hard, resinous, substance composed of dessicated rat urine.<br><br>It is absolutely "amber" + "rat" because whoever named it was <br>incredible. I am thrilled that this exists -- apparently, packrats <br>will use the same den continually for tens of thousands of years. In <br>the arid US Southwest this can result in amberat deposits inches or <br>feet thick.<br><br><a href="http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/geos462/packratpsm.gif" target="_blank">http://www.geo.arizona.edu/<wbr>palynology/geos462/packratpsm.<wbr>gif</a><br><a href="http://eekosphere.net/?q=2013/04/28/amberat" target="_blank">http://eekosphere.net/?q=2013/<wbr>04/28/amberat</a><br><a href="http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/cprs/research/projects/global_change/middens.asp" target="_blank">http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/cprs/<wbr>research/projects/global_<wbr>change/middens.asp</a><br><a href="http://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-record-keeper.html" target="_blank">http://plantsandrocks.<wbr>blogspot.com/2013/05/the-<wbr>record-keeper.html</a><br><br>Nature is weird. Also, Nicolas got this one right.<br><br><br><br>Linda:<br>-----<br><br>djent, n. A wax-dripping tool used in Indonesian batik and now<br> used by batik artists everywhere. <br>2 Helen, 2 David, 1 Pierre<br><br>amberat, n. A dye made from crushed amber, with a seaweed<br> fixative.<br><br>Elliott: AMBER<br><br>Plus one point for a correct vote for djent, total of 6.<br><br><br>David<br>-----<br><br>djent, n. A sophisticated djinn.<br><br>Pierre: A meta-meta-meta-djinn? "Every djinn has a meta (which is <br>also a djinn)."<br>Elliott: Funny! But not true.<br><br>amberat, n. To be and not to be; applied to subatomic particles.<br>1 Elliott<br><br>Nicolas: Shakespeare's Cat?<br>Elliott: AMBI + ERAT. This one is also funny. One point.<br><br>Total of 1.<br><br><br>Nicolas<br>-------<br><br>djent, n. Uncomfortable seating, from Amharic.<br>1 Ranjit 2 Elliott<br><br>Elliott: Plausible, and it would be funny if true. Two points.<br>Pierre: This is teffinitely not the sort of word that English would <br>borrow from Amharic.<br><br>amberat, adj. Located within walking distance.<br>2 Ranjit, 1 Helen<br><br>Elliott: AMBIT. Everything should be amberat in this sense.<br><br>Plus two points for getting amberat right, total of 8.<br><br><br>Ranjit<br>------<br><br>djent, n. A light breakfast, usually toasted bread with a savory<br> spread.<br>2 Fran<br><br>amberat, n. A sour-sweet mango chutney.<br>1 Fran<br><br>Elliott: Color of AMBER?<br><br>Total of 3<br><br><br>Pierre<br>------<br><br>djent, n. A funerary urn used during the Middle Kingdom in Egypt.<br>1 Nicolas<br><br>Nicolas: 1 point, though I'm fairly sure I've heard another word for <br>this it sounds plausible.<br><br>amberat, n. A messenger who rode a circuit in the Roman Empire.<br><br>Elliott: AMBIT + ERAT?<br><br>Total of 1<br><br><br>Jean-Joseph<br>-----------<br><br>djent, n. A tool for removing a pear from a bottle of brandy.<br><br>amberat, n. A sweet, syrupy liqueur produced from a pear that has<br> been soaked in brandy.<br><br>Pierre: AMBRETTE. All such defs will be peared away.<br>Elliott: Shoot, what's a liqueur? I know they can be sweet and <br>syrupy, but do you make them by soaking something in actual liquor? <br>No idea.<br><br>Total of 0<br><br><br>Helen<br>-----<br><br>djent, v. To brag, especially with regard to strength or skill in<br> sports.<br><br>amberat, n. A tool for lifting and transporting blocks of ice<br> harvested from a lake or river.<br>1 David, 2 Linda, 2 Jean-Joseph, 2 Pierre<br><br>Jean-Joseph: I've seen some museum exhibits about this, and there is <br>a word for this, but I don't think it's amberat. Two points anyway.<br>Elliott: Oooh! Interesting. They used to do that in the old days; I <br>remember hearing that ice from Spy Pond was even exported to <br>Argentina when it was summer there. But would the same tool be used <br>for both lifting and transporting?<br>Linda: . . . and two points to the ice-cutting tools, in memory of my <br>great-grandfather who had an ice business.<br><br>Total of 7<br><br><br>Fran<br>----<br><br>djent, n. A leaf-shaped shield made of layers of thick leather<br> over a rib-bone frame.<br>1 Jean-Joseph<br><br>Elliott: Rib bone of what species? Something sturdy, I hope. Mammoths?<br><br>amberat, n. An early synthetic resin meant to imitate amber.<br> Commercial success was prevented by its very low melting<br> temperature.<br><br>Elliott: AMBER<br><br>Total of 1<br><br><br>Elliott<br>-------<br><br>djent, n. A trained python used to clear a jam in a pneumatic-<br> mail system.<br><br>Jean-Joseph: Excellent.<br><br>amberat, n. A trained mongoose used to remove pythons from a<br> pneumatic-mail system.<br><br>Jean-Joseph: And the perfect follow-up.<br>Pierre: A de-obstructor constrictor destructor.<br>Nicolas: With what do you remove the mongoose?<br>Elliott: Ferrets would have been of a more plausible caliber, but <br>that sounded too much like RAT.<br><br>Total of 0<br><br><br>Djent comments:<br><br>Fran: None of these look real.<br>Linda: The mango chutney sounds yummy as does the pear in the liqueur <br>bottle, but I must give one vote for the musical djent with its <br>myriad descriptions, in honor of my nephew the Heavy Metal musician. <br>(Eric says: good call!))<br>Nicolas: I don't know what those details mean but it sounds like I'd <br>like it? (Eric says: be sure to report back and tell us whether you <br>did.)<br><br>Amberat comments:<br><br>Fran: All of these also look like fake definitions, though I loved <br>the mongoose.<br>Nicolas: 2 points. Too gross to not be real?<br>Elliott: AMBER + RAT<br><br><br>Take it away Nicolas!<br><br>-- <br>-- Eric | <a href="mailto:fictioneric@inbox.com" target="_blank">fictioneric@inbox.com</a><br><br>______________________________<wbr>______________________________<br>FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family!<br>Visit <a href="http://www.inbox.com/photosharing" target="_blank">http://www.inbox.com/<wbr>photosharing</a> to find out more!
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