<html><div>A while back I tutored an adult guy in English Literacy who enjoyed hunting. He was at about third grade level, so I found a book on hunting, including tanning of deer hides. The Indian tribes wasted nothing, so after scraping off the hairs, they processed the leather with mashed brains and urine, then hung it up to dry. . Smoking the hide then produced very soft buckskin. I hope i have the order right. I have helped to make a full-sized replica Sioux Tipi, and cooked many NA meals over an open fire, but never made leather. Oh, this was a year-long project with my husband's Boy Scout troop, with lots of research, whole families participated, and the Tipi won several awards. .Some said that Indian Lore Merit Badge was harder to earn than Eagle Scout. It was probably about 15-20 years ago and the various parts of the Tipi may be in good enough condition to use again. David and I slept out in it one January and were toasty warm in our sleeping bags. I remember hearing a great horned owl right here in RI. LINda<br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: E Cohen <eac@inbox.com><br>To: "fictionary@swarpa.net" <fictionary@swarpa.net><br>Subject: [Fictionary] bhangmeter, corsned, puering results<br>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:44:58 -0400<br><br>Good heaven, I'm so sorry this is so late.<br><br>This round's winner is Nicolas, with 20 points, primarily for his very<br>popular defs about pillow manufacturing and a pottery finish.<br><br>Other proud fictioneers -- David 5, Jean-Joseph 11, Linda 6, Pierre 7,<br>Ranjit 3.<br><br>Linda: Too many defs of time, approx lengths and hemp~<br><br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>bhangmeter, n. A device for remotely detecting and measuring the<br>yield of an atomic explosion.<br><br> Dictionary def.<br><br> Total: 3<br><br> Pierre 2, Jean-Joseph 1.<br><br> Eric: Wikipedia has this one. Yes, it really has to do with<br> both "bang" as in bang, and "bhang" as in weed. From the days<br> back when U.S. government physicists could make jokes about<br> marijuana.<br><br> Jean-Joseph: Well, you never know, one point. Ironically, when<br> I was an undergraduate, there was a well-known story about a<br> member of the rocket research society who made a mistake in<br> preparing a batch of propellant (I forget the designation, but<br> it was similar stuff to what was used in the SRBs of the Space<br> Shuttle), and he blew the door off of the blast chamber when he<br> tested it. His name is Hyong Bang. True story.<br><br><br>bhangmeter, n. A blood test for narcotics<br><br> David<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> Hutch 1.<br><br> Hutch: connected to hemp?<br><br><br>bhangmeter, n. An Indian stew made with hemp leaves and peas in a red<br>curry sauce.<br><br> Pierre<br><br> Total: 4.<br><br> Jean-Joseph 2, Hutch 2.<br><br> Jean-Joseph: "-meter", hmm, I don't know, but what the heck,<br> two points.<br><br> Hutch: I know that "bhang" is an Indian 'chaw' of hemp leaves:<br> 2 points<br><br><br>bhangmeter, n. A device consisting of a shallow ramp used to measure<br>the speed of a billiard table by rolling a cue ball down it and<br>observing the distance that it travels before stopping.<br><br> Jean-Joseph<br><br> Total: 3<br><br> David 2, Linda 1.<br><br> Pierre: What do you mean by the speed of a billiard table?<br><br> Jean-Joseph: Mine, and obvious parody of the real device<br> "stimpmeter".<br><br><br>bhangmeter, n. An approximate unit of length, roughly 90 to 115 cm.<br><br> Ranjit<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> David, 1.<br><br><br>bhangmeter, n. A pole or similar marker used for recording high water<br>marks.<br><br> Nicolas<br><br> Total: 4<br><br> Ranjit 2, Linda 2.<br><br> Pierre: I've sat through the PDH seminar on recording high<br> water marks and never heard of this term.<br><br> A few months ago there was a flood over much of North Carolina<br> and they asked all surveyors who'd taken the high water mark<br> seminar to record them. I traveled my usual route to Asheville,<br> much of which runs beside a creek, and saw no evidence of<br> flooding. I guess I'm too close to the mountains.<br><br><br>bhangmeter, n. A Bollywood rating system.<br><br> Linda<br><br> Total: 2<br><br> Pierre 1, Ranjit 1.<br><br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>corsned<br><br> Hutch: Completely at sea here. WAG time!!!<br><br> Eric: folks sure loved that pillow stitch!<br><br><br>corsned, n. A type of trial by ordeal in which the accused was<br>required to eat a piece of barley bread and cheese.<br><br> Dictionary def.<br><br> Total: 2<br><br> David 2.<br><br> Pierre: Doesn't sound like much of an ordeal.<br><br> Eric: Also known as the "morsel of execration", how could that<br> phrase be any better? The idea isn't that the accused might not<br> like barley bread and cheese, but that the priest first writes<br> the Lord's Prayer on the bread. See also Numbers 5:11ff.<br> https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%205&version=<br> NIV;KJV.<br><br><br>corsned, adj. Preserved by packing in ground pepper.<br><br> Jean-Joseph<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> Linda 1.<br><br><br>corsned, n. A hemp weevil<br><br> David<br><br> Total: 2<br><br> Pierre 1, Ranjit 1.<br><br> Pierre: "No, he didn't say a Neevil, he said a weevil — Well,<br> what's that?"<br><br><br>corsned, adj. Of meat, marinated with snalt and cormiander seed, as<br>in corsned beeps.<br><br> Ranjit<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> David 1.<br><br> Pierre: Do they go well with crottled greeps?<br><br> Eric: I love this.<br><br><br>corsned, adj. Corrupted spelling describing a type of homespun cloth<br>made of various fibers.<br><br> Linda<br><br> Total: 2<br><br> Hutch 2.<br><br><br>corsned, adj. A strong overlap stitch used in pillow manufacturing.<br><br> Nicolas<br><br> Total: 9<br><br> Pierre 2, Jean-Joseph 2, Ranjit 2, Linda 2, Hutch 1.<br><br><br>corsned, v. To update the software of a network of real-time<br>kinematic reference stations in such a way that users experience no<br>downtime.<br><br> Pierre<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> Jean-Joseph 1.<br><br> Ranjit: 0 points but special appreciation award<br><br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>puering<br><br> Hutch: "puerile" means "young" or "immature" ... but it looks<br> like most people looked that up and came up with a fictionition<br> along that line. Back to a WAG again<br><br> Eric: This time folks liked the pottery finish and the<br> appearance of seven stars. Credit to Linda for being the only<br> one to choose the real def.<br><br><br>puering, v. In tanning, the process of soaking skins in an infusion of<br>canine faeces.<br><br> Dictionary def.<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> Linda, 1.<br><br> Ranjit: This is why dogs' butts are so puerile. (Sorry!)<br><br> Eric: For all you could want to know and more, you'll want _The<br> Principles of Leather Manufacture_ by H. R. Procter, F.I.C,<br> F.C.S. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57548<br><br><br>puering, n. The interval between the sun disappearing below the<br>horizon, and the appearance of seven stars.<br><br> Jean-Joseph<br><br> Total: 6<br><br> Linda 2, David 2, Pierre 1, Ranjit 1.<br><br><br>puering, n. A seven course meal of lamb, veal, and other baby animals.<br><br> David<br><br> Ranjit: I'm wondering about the two sevens here - is this a<br> coincidence or is there a connection to "seven" that I'm missing?<br><br> Total: 0<br><br><br>puering, n. The rough finish on pottery before it is glazed.<br><br> Nicolas<br><br> Total: 7<br><br> Pierre 2, Jean-Joseph 2, Ranjit 2, Hutch 1.<br><br><br>puering, n. A group of brothers.<br><br> Linda<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> Jean-Joseph 1.<br><br> Jean-Joseph: I have linguistic aversions to all the rest of<br> these, including this one, but I can't really throw away my<br> remaining vote, so it goes to this too-obvious one.<br><br><br>puering, n. A smoke signal sent by Pope Pius's father using a pipe.<br><br> Pierre<br><br> Total: 0<br><br><br>puering, n. An approximate unit of circumference, roughly 750 to 900<br>cm.<br><br> Ranjit<br><br> Total: 1<br><br> David 1.<br><br> Jean-Joseph: Interesting notion, being as how circumference is<br> measured in length. It did make me think about how a circle<br> one foot in diameter has a circumference of about a meter.<br><br><br>-- Eric | eac@inbox.com</p></html>
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