Paul Keating
April 16th, 2008, 02:11 PM
Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 16
definitions for CURIOLOGIC 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,
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1. fhe mating dance of some birds, chiefly the Fulvous Whistling
Duck, _Dendrocygna bicolor_, which includes prospective mates
plunging their beaks into soft mud and wiping it on each other's
necks and wings
2. pertaining to the collection, preservation, and cataloguing of
objects of artistic, historical, anthropological, or other
special interest
3. concerned with the management of museums
4. any of a variety of alternate systems of logic, many of which do
not restrict themselves to the traditional two-value system
(i.e., true/false); these logics are not used for ordinary
thinking or reasoning, but they are very fruitful for exploring
the consequences of different sets of assumptions
5. an elliptical series of syllogisms, in which the premises are so
arranged that the predicate of the first is the subject of the
next, continuing thus until the subject of the first is united
with the predicate of the last
6. of or pertaining to that form of hieroglyphic writing in which
objects are represented by pictures, and not by symbolic
characters; representation by picture-writing.
7. strange; peculiar
8. of or related to cabinetry
9. a nervous system disorder causing a feeling of something
crawling on the skin
10. broken but repairable
11. extravagantly minute investigation
12. relating to or characterized by the study of nonessential
information
13. using or having ambiguous or allegorical meanings
14. ornate designs used in a border or frame
15. describing the phenomenon of nuclear resonance
16. (Obs.) producing heat by atomic radiation (<Pierre & Marie Curie)
definitions for CURIOLOGIC 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, long, or as chosen by a random number
generator). 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 17 April 2008 at
23:30 PDT
and on 18 April 2008 at
00:30 MDT
01:30 CDT
02:30 EDT
06:30 UTC
07:30 BST
and 08:30 CEST for me.
1. fhe mating dance of some birds, chiefly the Fulvous Whistling
Duck, _Dendrocygna bicolor_, which includes prospective mates
plunging their beaks into soft mud and wiping it on each other's
necks and wings
2. pertaining to the collection, preservation, and cataloguing of
objects of artistic, historical, anthropological, or other
special interest
3. concerned with the management of museums
4. any of a variety of alternate systems of logic, many of which do
not restrict themselves to the traditional two-value system
(i.e., true/false); these logics are not used for ordinary
thinking or reasoning, but they are very fruitful for exploring
the consequences of different sets of assumptions
5. an elliptical series of syllogisms, in which the premises are so
arranged that the predicate of the first is the subject of the
next, continuing thus until the subject of the first is united
with the predicate of the last
6. of or pertaining to that form of hieroglyphic writing in which
objects are represented by pictures, and not by symbolic
characters; representation by picture-writing.
7. strange; peculiar
8. of or related to cabinetry
9. a nervous system disorder causing a feeling of something
crawling on the skin
10. broken but repairable
11. extravagantly minute investigation
12. relating to or characterized by the study of nonessential
information
13. using or having ambiguous or allegorical meanings
14. ornate designs used in a border or frame
15. describing the phenomenon of nuclear resonance
16. (Obs.) producing heat by atomic radiation (<Pierre & Marie Curie)