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Dave Cunningham
October 27th, 2006, 07:42 PM
A whole bunch of great defs -- of which kindly vote for two before 8 a.m. EDT on Sunday 29 Oct. As always, all errors are the fault of the dealer. And don't look up the word! <g>


1. A ghostwriter.

2. A person trained to take miographs, but not a qualified miometrician.

3. Someone who makes drawings of microbes.

4. One who records, narrates, or comments on techniques for divination.

5. One who writes about cheese.

6. One trained in the description and cataloging of maps.

7. One who records and reports data dealing with population fertility or birth rate.

8. A device used to measure the height of a land mass from a distant point.

9. A collector or writer of proverbs.

10. One who investigates and authors treatises exposing fraudulent medical theory.

11. The color-reference video target(s) on the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

12. One who obsessively records the details of his or her sexual activities.

13. A designer of baby carriages.

14. A person who writes in parables or riddles.

15. One who studies deviousness by recording answers whose subjects are at variance with the subject of the questions asked.

16. An author who writes historical fiction, or pseudo-history. [

17. A ghostwriter for the putative author of a memoir or autobiography.

18. [Med.] One who researches deficiencies of the muscular system.

19. A drawing tool that uses several circles and ellipses with tandwheels and holes to produce drawing patterns.

Dave
DQ, DF

BobStone
October 27th, 2006, 10:17 PM
Many are so good, and some are so creative, but I'm going with #16 and #17.
Can anyone say 0 + 0 = 0?

-Bob Stone

Tim Bourne
October 28th, 2006, 05:43 AM
What an unbelievable lot!

I'll try 6 and 10, please.

Best wishes,

Tim B

Daniel B. Widdis
October 28th, 2006, 06:18 AM
It must be 14, 16, or another one I didn't vote for.

--
Dan Widdis

Guerri Stevens
October 28th, 2006, 08:32 AM
I vote for 14 and 19.

Guerri

mshefler
October 28th, 2006, 10:23 AM
1 and 19 for me please

Hugo Kornelis
October 28th, 2006, 10:27 AM
Hi Dave,

Ooof, choosing seems to get harder and harder each round.

> 3. Someone who makes drawings of microbes.

> 8. A device used to measure the height of a land mass from a
> distant point.

Best, Hugo

Tony Abell
October 28th, 2006, 10:16 PM
I think I'll try a writer and a tool: 17 and 19.