<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Give me the tiebreaker next time it’s relevant; carry on with Ranjit now.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 11, 2019, at 6:41 PM, Nicolas Ward <<a href="mailto:ultranurd@gmail.com">ultranurd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto">Alas while collecting results I missed J-J's two point vote for David's goat snack: "<span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">What? Wax? That's ridiculous. Two points."</span></div></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">That would give David 7 to Ranjit's 6. How should we resolve my error?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">--Nick</span></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:13 AM Nicolas Ward <<a href="mailto:ultranurd@gmail.com">ultranurd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Finally assembled the results and Ranjit's polymer narrowly edged out David's cheese and correct guess for the round win.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A lot of great defs this round and I'm glad my selection of an animal triggered some metagame double fake-outs.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Take it away Ranjit!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit 6</div><div dir="auto">David 3 + 2</div><div dir="auto">Eric 2 + 1</div><div dir="auto">Pierre 2</div><div dir="auto">Elliott 2<br></div><div dir="auto">Linda 1</div><div dir="auto">J-J 0</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — Hey, these are interesting and plausible. Whatever am I to do?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, n. Scrap wax and cheese fed to goats and pigs.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit 1</div><div dir="auto">Elliott 2</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit — I like playing with the wax that comes on babybel cheeses, but eating it? - well, yes, I'm sure my dog would eat it, so why not goats and pigs too?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — In an age where there's lots of scrap wax, can people afford to feed </div><div dir="auto">cheese to pigs? And I doubt wax is digestible, so why feed it to animals </div><div dir="auto">instead of melting it down and making more candles? (If it is digestible, </div><div dir="auto">then how come wax candles don't attract mice? Tallow candles, sure, but </div><div dir="auto">wax?). ``His intimate frieds called him `Candle-ends', And his enemies, `Toasted-cheese'.'' But ... dang it, this is the only one left, so two points.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Linda</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, adj. Fulfilling</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J 1</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J — Let's get this points thing out of the way</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, n. An artificial polymer derived from crab shells, used in manufacture of decorative moldings and costume jewelry in late 19th - early 20th c.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Linda 2</div><div dir="auto">David 1</div><div dir="auto">Elliott 1</div><div dir="auto">Pierre 2</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit — I was thinking of Hemacite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemacite">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemacite</a> when i wrote this. I'd imagine that foumart jewelry, warmed by body heat, would have a most amazing smell.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — I don't believe it, but I like the idea.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J — That seems early for polymers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pierre — Go fly a chitin!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Northumberland Words, Volume 1 by Harry Haldane</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eEUOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301&lpg=PA301&dq=foumart+northumberland&source=bl&ots=rvy4DtLXgd&sig=ACfU3U0MIhhj97R9g3Hynohn0Y4jnqFBcw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXrIze3vXgAhXmjVQKHRaWDjUQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=foumart%20northumberland&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=eEUOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301&lpg=PA301&dq=foumart+northumberland&source=bl&ots=rvy4DtLXgd&sig=ACfU3U0MIhhj97R9g3Hynohn0Y4jnqFBcw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXrIze3vXgAhXmjVQKHRaWDjUQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=foumart%20northumberland&f=false</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, n. A European polecat, Mustella putorius.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David 2</div><div dir="auto">Eric 1</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Eric — Surely no-one in these latter days would try the obvious "obscure animal". Plus it has "fume" in its name. So this must be a fake out, and it really *is* the answer.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — Hmmm, like a marten. But ``putorius''?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — So where'd they get ``putorius'' from? ``Putridus'', sure, but </div><div dir="auto">``putorius''? It's not in Lewis and Short. I'll check the Oxford Latin Dictionary when I get home.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — Aha, here we go:</div><div dir="auto">putorius, putorii</div><div dir="auto">skunk</div><div dir="auto">Age: Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th centuries)</div><div dir="auto">Frequency: 2 or 3 citations</div><div dir="auto">Source: Calepinus Novus, “Modern Latin”, by Guy Licoppe (Cal)</div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://latin-dictionary.net/definition/32387/putorius-putorii">http://latin-dictionary.net/definition/32387/putorius-putorii</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J — Violates the "never vote for random organisms" rule.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J — (Well, I guess it's the random animal. Also apparently known as the </div><div dir="auto">common ferret, and supposedly derived from the term "foul marten".)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pierre — There's only one 'l' in Mustela, but there are five locks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pierre</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, n. 1. A store in an insane asylum. 2. A store operated by a mentally ill person.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Eric 2</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J haha</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Eric</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, adj. A style of medieval wooden church construction typified by </div><div dir="auto">post and lintel structure, split-log walls, and posts set on stone foundation columns, formerly common in Serbian Orthodox churches.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Linda 1</div><div dir="auto">Pierre 1</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit — This is the only believable one, and that's why I don't believe it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — Doesn't sound Serbian enough, but it makes me want to go international </div><div dir="auto">dancing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J — Maybe... but it doesn't seem like a very Slavic word.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, n. An obscene constellation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit 2</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ranjit Ha!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J — I have a T-shirt depicting little-known (fictional) constellations, and </div><div dir="auto">I also sent one to my college roommate (whom I have not seen since </div><div dir="auto">college). He is now a fairly important astronomer, but when we were </div><div dir="auto">undergraduates, I would tell him that the asteroids he was discovering </div><div dir="auto">weren't enough, if he really wanted to be renowned he needed to discover </div><div dir="auto">a new constellation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">----</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">foumart, n. A plastic ring that snaps over the lug nuts on a wheel to deter them from unscrewing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elliott — Deterrence! Because the only language inanimate objects understand is </div><div dir="auto">force.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">J-J — On a recent trip to Chile, I saw this on our tour bus, which is where I </div><div dir="auto">got the idea. I suppose it must have a name, but I have no idea what it is.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pierre — Isn't this a sort of cotter?</div></blockquote></div></div>
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