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Hugo Kornelis
June 21st, 2007, 03:11 PM
Hi all,

Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 18 definitions for
WELWITSCHIA presented below for your edification and entertainment. The
remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.

Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values) of
"good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible, politically
correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, or long). You can do this whether
or not you have not submitted a definition, and whether or not you have
played before. You're not allowed to vote if you know the right answer.

Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on Friday
June 22nd 2007 at

15:30 PDT
16:30 MDT
17:30 CDT
18:30 EDT
22:30 UTC
23:30 BST

and on Saturday June 23rd 2007 at

0:30 CEST for me.

1. The annual Wiccan celebration of nature, traditionally held in mid-
August.

2. Any of various tropical marine gastropods of the family Cypraeidae,
having glossy, often brightly marked shells, some of which are used
as currency in the South Pacific and Africa.

3. A thick meat and vegetable soup served to the bride and groom at an
Amish wedding.

4. A plant disease caused by a soil-borne fungus and affecting herbs
such as basil. Symptoms include stunted growth, brown spots on the
leaves, and too-early flowering.

5. [Arch. obs.] Velvet.

6. A feeling of unease manifested by cold or sweating palms.

7. The belief of an obscure sect of Lutheranism that the world is in
fact a dream.

8. A communical disease that slowly causes fibrosis of the spleen.

9. A velvet frock coat woth deep pockets in the tails: frequently used
by highwaymen to hold their pistols.

10. A drink made with wine and fruit juice.

11. A weak and tasteless beer used to calm infants.

12. Goodwill (Ger.)

13. An irrigation canal.

14. [Dutch] A party honoring someone who is about to leave for a long
or indefinite time.

15. Divination using a baked ass's head.

16. [NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch.]
(Bot.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the
order Gnetace[ae]. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem,
and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously
developed, and at length split into diverging segments.

17. An aspect of existence on which individuality depends.

18. A wasting disease caused by the inability to metabolize some forms
of Vitamin B.


Enjoy!

Best, Hugo

France International
June 21st, 2007, 03:32 PM
I'll take 16 for its length and 5 for its brevity.

--Mike Shefler

Tim Lodge
June 21st, 2007, 04:14 PM
Hugo

I'll have a couple of the diseases:

4 and 18 please.

-- Tim L

Daniel B. Widdis
June 21st, 2007, 06:17 PM
11 because I'd like some and 16 because that level of detail must be
rewarded.

--
Dan

Guerri Stevens
June 21st, 2007, 06:54 PM
I vote for 5 and 10.

Guerri

Judy Madnick
June 21st, 2007, 08:57 PM
2 and 4, please.

Judy Madnick

Bill Hirst
June 22nd, 2007, 04:36 AM
7 for the improbable dream, and 15 for baking the head. Baked ass
head? Ewww.

-Bill

Tim Lodge
June 22nd, 2007, 06:08 AM
On the Google Groups website, the message list in this topic (Round
1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!) shows a message from Dodi posted
on Jun 21. However, I can't see the actual message, whatever I try.
It doesn't show up on tapcis.com, either. I haven't had an email
digest since Wednesday, so I can't tell if it's on that.

Does anyone know what's going on?

-- Tim L

Hugo Kornelis
June 22nd, 2007, 06:18 AM
Hi Tim,

The last message from Dodi that I see on the site was indeed from June 21,
but it's in the thread "Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA", and it's part off the
discussion I had with Dodi on the differences and similarities between Dutch
"donderdag" and English "thursday".

Are you 100% sure that you was a message in the voting thread, with a date
that goes back to before I started that thread?

Best, Hugo


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Lodge" <iel7j001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com>
To: "Dixonary" <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:08 PM
Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!


>
> On the Google Groups website, the message list in this topic (Round
> 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!) shows a message from Dodi posted
> on Jun 21. However, I can't see the actual message, whatever I try.
> It doesn't show up on tapcis.com, either. I haven't had an email
> digest since Wednesday, so I can't tell if it's on that.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on?
>
> -- Tim L
>

Tim Lodge
June 22nd, 2007, 07:49 AM
Hi Hugo

When I select "View as tree" in the options on the Google Groups site
for the thread "Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!", I see a
link to a message from Dodi as number 4 in the thread, apparently in
reply to my voting message which is number 3. However the message
itself does no appear.

It's not important - I just didn't want you to miss Dodi's vote.

What does concern me a bit more is that I haven't seen an email digest
from the group since 08:37 BST on 20 June.

-- Tim L


On Jun 22, 12:18 pm, "Hugo Kornelis" <h... (AT) perFact (DOT) info> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> The last message from Dodi that I see on the site was indeed from June 21,
> but it's in the thread "Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA", and it's part off the
> discussion I had with Dodi on the differences and similarities between Dutch
> "donderdag" and English "thursday".
>
> Are you 100% sure that you was a message in the voting thread, with a date
> that goes back to before I started that thread?
>
> Best, Hugo
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Lodge" <iel7j... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com>
> To: "Dixonary" <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:08 PM
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!
>
> > On the Google Groups website, the message list in this topic (Round
> > 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!) shows a message from Dodi posted
> > on Jun 21. However, I can't see the actual message, whatever I try.
> > It doesn't show up on tapcis.com, either. I haven't had an email
> > digest since Wednesday, so I can't tell if it's on that.
>
> > Does anyone know what's going on?
>
> > -- Tim L- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Tony Abell
June 22nd, 2007, 08:28 AM
2 and 10, please.

--
Tony

Hugo Kornelis
June 22nd, 2007, 08:40 AM
Hi Tim,

> When I select "View as tree" in the options on the Google Groups site
> for the thread "Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!", I see a
> link to a message from Dodi as number 4 in the thread, apparently in
> reply to my voting message which is number 3. However the message
> itself does no appear.

Hmm, yes. Now I see what you mean. Very strange. Dodi, can you please
confirm whether you have or have not yet voted? And if you did vote, then
please repeat your votes, as I didn't receive them.

> What does concern me a bit more is that I haven't seen an email digest
> from the group since 08:37 BST on 20 June.

I can't comment on that, as I get all messages relayed straight away rather
than in the daily digest.

Best, Hugo

Christopher Carson
June 22nd, 2007, 08:44 AM
Completely mystified, I'm going to go for 4 and 5.

Chris

dixonary@siam.co.uk
June 22nd, 2007, 09:12 AM
7 and 17, please.

Best wishes,

Tim B

Dodi Schultz
June 22nd, 2007, 10:30 AM
Tim Lodge says:

>> On the Google Groups website, the message list in this topic (Round
>> 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!) shows a message from Dodi
>> posted on Jun 21. However, I can't see the actual message, whatever
>> I try.

That would have been my vote, Tim; it was for #5 and #16.

--Dodi

Dodi Schultz
June 22nd, 2007, 10:30 AM
>> Dodi, can you please confirm whether you have or have not yet voted?
>> And if you did vote, then please repeat your votes, as I didn't
>> receive them.

Hugo, as I told Tim, I voted for #5 and #16.

--Dodi

Dodi Schultz
June 22nd, 2007, 10:30 AM
>> The last message from Dodi that I see on the site was indeed from
>> June 21, but it's in the thread "Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA", and it's
>> part off the discussion I had with Dodi on the differences and
>> similarities between Dutch "donderdag" and English "thursday".

That's odd, Hugo. I did vote, as I just told Tim L. If I can find my
message, I'll be able to tell you when I sent it...

Okay, found my file copy. It was dispatched at 18:35 EDT; TAPCIS (yes, I
still use TAPCIS) reported that it was successfully delivered. And I didn't
get any bounce notice.

Another of those mysteries. :-(

--Dodi

Hugo Kornelis
June 22nd, 2007, 10:42 AM
Hi Dodi,

This time, I did receive your votes. Twice (but Coryphaeus is smart enough
to count them only once!)

Best, Hugo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dodi Schultz" <SCHULTZ (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
To: <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:30 PM
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!




>> Dodi, can you please confirm whether you have or have not yet voted?
>> And if you did vote, then please repeat your votes, as I didn't
>> receive them.

Hugo, as I told Tim, I voted for #5 and #16.

--Dodi

Guerri Stevens
June 22nd, 2007, 08:32 PM
I have individual messages from the group delivered to me by Email, and
I have not received Dodi's original voting message, although the
messages she's posted in response to Tim L's and Hugo's messages do
appear. So there is something odd about her voting message for this
round that caused it not to get sent out (I'm assuming no one received
it) and not appear in tapcis.com. I have received her messages for other
rounds with no difficulty.

Guerri

Tim Lodge wrote:
> On the Google Groups website, the message list in this topic (Round
> 1819: WELWITSCHIA -- Votes please!!) shows a message from Dodi posted
> on Jun 21. However, I can't see the actual message, whatever I try.
> It doesn't show up on tapcis.com, either. I haven't had an email
> digest since Wednesday, so I can't tell if it's on that.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on?