<div dir="auto"><div>Thank you everyone who sent in your ballots! If you haven't yet, here's a reminder that they're due by Saturday. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 17, 2020, 10:20 AM Ziv Stern <<a href="mailto:nzivstern@gmail.com">nzivstern@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="ltr"><div><span><span><span><span>As usual, please give two points to one definition, and one point to another. Also add whatever thoughts, comments, anecdotes, slanders, musings, etc. to which you are moved by any definition! <br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span>Please send in your votes by Saturday.<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span>asteism</span>, n. the belief that we are made of star stuff.</span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span>asteism</span>, n. belief in the wholesome properties of mildew.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span><span>asteism</span>, n. reluctance to examine or confront a complex issue.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span>asteism, n. polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span><span>asteism</span>, n. belief that humans came from the stars about a million years ago.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span>asteism</span>, n. inability to sequence episodic memory correctly, usually following cerebral trauma.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span><span>asteism</span>, n. a sect of Transylvanian Unitarianism in which meditation is the primary form of worship.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span>asteism</span>, n. a lenticular flat-topped elevation in karst topography caused by an intrusive igneous dike.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span>asteism</span>, n. a belief popular in the vicinity of Bow Church
(London) that the world was created in five days.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span>asteism</span>, n. also called a "sky burial", the practice of allowing a deceased person's body to be consumed by vultures.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span>asteism</span>, n. in ancient Greece, the government of surrounding towns or colonies <br>
as subordinates of a city-state.</span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div><span>asteism</span>, n. a condition of the fingernails,
often caused by an iron deficiency, which presents as a pattern of
longitudinal ridges on the nail.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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