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I'd be happy to conduct the next round, but for my shame in the fact
that I didn't vote in this round. Part of the reason why I didn't
vote was because I looked at the definitions and saw that none of
them were mine. I was therefore pretty surprised when I saw that I
was tied for first place. I looked at the definition attributed to
me, and not only did I not recognize it, it didn't even look like
the kind of definition or wording I would have used, so I realized
that there was a mistake. I was even more surprised when I checked
my Sent folder and found that I actually had sent it in, on January
2. Nancy says that I was probably still drunk from New Year's,
which seems unlikely since I haven't had a drink in the past quarter
century or so. But I think that Jan 2 might be Hutch's birthday, so
I'll defer the honors to him.<br>
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Jean-Joseph<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/5/2017 1:19 PM, Ranjit Bhatnagar
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<div dir="ltr">My definition (mouse factory leftovers) was
inspired by Jim Mosowitz's wonderful <i>afflatus</i>, which I
still think about all the time nearly 20 years later:
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<div>afflatus - (n) loose change, pens, toupees, and other
small items found beneath the loop-the-loop on a roller
coaster.</div>
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<div>Since it was a semiripoff, I'll defer to Hutch and
Jean-Joseph for the next round, unless neither of you wants
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:58 PM,
Nicolas Ward <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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results are in and... we have a three-way tie in the
points total!<br>
I'm not sure if we have a metric for tie breaking between
receiving<br>
the most points or assigning the most points to the real
definition.<br>
One of Jean-Joseph, Hutch, or Ranjit should take it away.<br>
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