<div dir="ltr">OK, I will pick a word. I'll try to get a candidate out this weekend.<div>-Fran</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:35 AM, eLLioTT morEton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:em@swarpa.net" target="_blank">em@swarpa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Fictionary,<br>
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Right, I screwed up the tally pretty bad. Here are the corrected returns, which, as Fran and Jean-Joseph pointed out, show a three-way tie between Fran, Jean-Joseph, and Pierre. Pierre has suggested the following:<br>
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``J-J picked celatone in 2015-08, preceded shortly by Grounation Day. I picked sacbe/zemi-john in 2015-02. Fran picked hobday in 2014-10. I propose therefore that Fran pick a word, and if someone knows it then I pick a word, and if someone knows it then J-J pick a word.''<br>
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That sounds fine to me, so as lame-duck roundmeister, I hereby ordain that it be made so. Fran?<br>
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Apologies again for screwing that up, yall.<br>
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Regards,<br>
em<br>
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pigwidgeon (v.t.) To force an oversized joint of meat into a pot or kettle.<br>
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JACOB 2 = Ranjit 2<br>
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Hutch: Very tempting! Had I not decided it had to be something fairy, I coulda gone here. Give this one an imaginary tie-breaker vote.<br>
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Ranjit: 2 points for the pig-wedging<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) In Welsh lore, a spirit of benevolent chaos which visits farms and stirs up animals and objects. Visits result in lost items being found, recovery of relationships gone bad, and refreshing change.<br>
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FRAN 4 = Linda 2 Hutch 1 correct guess 1<br>
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Linda: Two points for the Welsh benevolent spirit if it cleans up some of my clutter.<br>
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Hutch: Due to the link to Harry Potter, I'm voting for the fairy tale definitions: 1 point<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) A sugar packet used as a wedge to prop up a wobbly table. (v.) To use a pigwidgeon.<br>
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RANJIT 0<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) The fattest clay pigeon that can be shot out of the skeet-throwing machine.<br>
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LINDA 2 = David 2<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) A device for lifting a stone, consisting of several parts that<br>
are assembled in a hole in the top of the stone.<br>
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PIERRE 4 = Fran 2 Jean-Joseph 1 correct guess 1<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) A whortleberry tart.<br>
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DAVID 0<br>
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Hutch: Also tempting, but from a different point of view. I'm hungry!<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) 1. A fairy, dwarf, imp, or elf. 2. (Derogatory) A small or insignificant person or thing; a stupid or contemptible person.<br>
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OED 6 = Fran 1 Pierre 1 Hutch 2 Jean-Joseph 2<br>
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Hutch: Due to the link (?) to Harry Potter, i'm voting for the fairy tale definitions. As my recollection seems to indicate that the owl named Pigwidgeon was a very small owl, I'm giving this one my 2-point vote: 2 points<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) A wedge of iron, used to support a piece of iron which is<br>
being shaped.<br>
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JOSH 3 = Pierre 2 David 1<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) A blue and yellow fish, sometimes with spots, sometimes with warts.<br>
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JEAN-JOSEPH 4 = Linda 1 Ranjit 1 correct guess 2<br>
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Pierre: Of what family? What shape? Any other features? This is about as vague as the<br>
dogdrave.<br>
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Ranjit: 1 point for the fishy fish fish<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) Under Elizabethan pre-Imperial unit standardization, the amount of wood that one subject may take from a royal forest each winter month.<br>
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NICK 0<br>
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HUTCH submitted no def, but gets 2 points for a correct guess.<br>
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Joke defs:<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) A tove with a doupee.<br>
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JEAN-JOSEPH<br>
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pigwidgeon (n.) - the feeling of sheer joy felt on election night when your favored candidate, against all probability, wins<br>
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DAVID<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Fran Poodry</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Oregon, USA</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size:small"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead" style="color:rgb(102,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">Margaret Mead</a></font><br></i></div></div></div></div></div>
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