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Nancy Shepherdson
September 23rd, 2008, 03:08 PM
Hi all --

Sorry for the slight lateness. At the time for posting, a Comcast guy
was here messing up my cable.

Anyway, please vote for two of these 21 (!) clever definitions by:

11 p.m. CDT on Wednesday September 24. (Midnight EDT)

And welcome Russ Heimerson back, who supplied one of them!

Nancy

1. a small hat of some kind.

2, a pickax having a sharp point or spike at the bottom of the
handle, used by mountaineers for climbing on ice.

3. a small protein structure found within some bacterial cells.

4. a small decorative bridge in a garden

5. an armor shoulder plate.

6. an evergreen, tendril-bearing woody vine native chiefly to the
southeast United States and having showy red-orange, trumpet-shaped
flowers.

7. a unit for measuring the rate of expenditure of energy, equal to
100 kilogrammeters per second.

8. a short cape worn by Roman Catholic priests.

9. small boy used to take messages between lovers in illicit
relationships

10. sleeveless mail coat.

11. a short cape or stole made from the skins of jaguar, puma or other
wild cats.

12. a small area which is the only environment in which a certain
species can be found.

13. a single-arched footbridge or aqueduct

14. any of a variety of very small dogs which can be carried in a
purse or pocket.

15. a short traverse; a temporary footbridge.

16. a man who displays moderately effeminate behavior and
characteristics

17. a glove with the fingertips removed.

18. a bayou on or near Lake Pontchartrain.

19. of a pale or sickly colour.

20. minor insignia usu. attached to epaulettes indicating a position
rather than rank.

21. an armored gauntlet.

Judy Madnick
September 23rd, 2008, 03:17 PM
Twenty-one? WOW!

None -- or all! -- of these could be correct, IMO (except for my submission, of course <G>).

I'll go with the glove (since my father-in-law was in the glove business in -- you guessed it! -- Gloversville, NY!) and the hat, I guess: So numbers 1 and 17. (And the "glove" definition is definitely a guess -- don't think that the glove business taught *me* anything!!)

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September 23rd, 2008, 03:30 PM
My guesses are numbers 17 and 20

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France International
September 23rd, 2008, 03:30 PM
After dutifully studying all the definitions, I am as confused as before I
started. So I'll take #9 and I'll bet he has a couple of #14's in his pocket
(otherwise it's knife, string or nothing.)

--Mike

Tim B
September 23rd, 2008, 03:45 PM
8 and 18, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

JohnnyB
September 23rd, 2008, 04:24 PM
So what is the common factor? - I suppose it's us!

Not sure what a kilogrammeter is and not sure about 'position rather than
rank' so I'll go for those two #7 and #20 please

JohnnyB

Tim Lodge
September 23rd, 2008, 04:53 PM
Nancy

Despite telling you, when I sent you my def, that PONCELET sounded
familiar, nothing here rings a bell, so I'm voting with a clear
conscience!

1 and 21 please.

-- Tim L

Dodi Schultz
September 23rd, 2008, 05:18 PM
Good word, and an interesting list of defs. I'll try #5 and #11.

Welcome back, Russ!

--Dodi

Paul Keating
September 23rd, 2008, 06:19 PM
A kilogram metre (properly a kilogram-force metre, because kilogram measures
mass not weight) is an old MKS unit of energy,

9.80665 joules,
or enough energy to keep a 100w lamp lit for 0.0980665 seconds
or 0.00234 dieticians' calories (the calories you see in Nutrition Facts on
American packaging, also called kilocalories).

If you walk up 10 flights of stairs and you weigh 14 stone or 196 pounds or
89 kilograms, you will have raised 89 kilograms through 30 metres.
Inefficiencies aside, you will have expended 89 x 30 = 2670 kilogram-force
metres, or 6.2 dieticians' calories, which means, if you believe the
conventional wisdom, that you would have to do it another 22 times to work
off the effect of drinking a single 330ml can of non-diet Coca Cola (595
kilojoules).

Exercise is good for you, at least up to a point, but not because it burns
up the energy in the excess sugar you ingest. Some maintain otherwise; they
just haven't done the arithmetic.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

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Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Rd. 1940: Poncelet Defs Up


> Not sure what a kilogrammeter is
>
> JohnnyB

Guerri Stevens
September 23rd, 2008, 07:34 PM
I vote for 2 and 6.

Guerri

Wayne Scott, MD
September 23rd, 2008, 08:46 PM
6 because those flowers sound beautiful & 18 because during WW II I was stationed in New Orleans for a year & lived near Lake Ponchartrain--- which isn't a lake but is a bay.

Wayne

Bill Hirst
September 24th, 2008, 12:35 AM
That's a good list this round. Any of them could be correct, even my
fake. For some reason my gut instinct is telling me to vote for the
effeminate man, but I'm picking armor instead. 5 and 21 please.

-Bill

Daniel B. Widdis
September 24th, 2008, 12:46 AM
A coat without sleeves and a glove without fingertips, please.

10 and 17.

--
Dan Widdis

Jim Hart
September 24th, 2008, 03:02 AM
I'll take the reinforced apparel with 10 and 21

Jim

Jim Hart
September 24th, 2008, 03:14 AM
On Sep 24, 9:19*am, Paul Keating <keat... (AT) acm (DOT) org> wrote:
> A kilogram metre (properly a kilogram-force metre, because kilogram measures
> mass not weight) is an old MKS unit of energy,
>
> 9.80665 joules,
> or enough energy to keep a 100w lamp lit for 0.0980665 seconds

So the poncelet in definition 7 is a unit of power (energy per unit of
time), or 9.8 watts, which means your 100 watt lamp is approx 10.2
poncelets. Have I got that right?

Jim
(trying to recall basic physics)

Christopher Carson
September 24th, 2008, 09:08 AM
I'll go for 13 and 17.

Chris

Dave Cunningham
September 24th, 2008, 04:36 PM
5 and 10 -- losts of armor to choose from!

Dave

On Sep 23, 4:08*pm, Nancy Shepherdson <nancyg... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> Sorry for the slight lateness. *At the time for posting, a Comcast guy
> was here messing up my cable.
>
> Anyway, please vote for two of these 21 (!) clever definitions by:
>
> 11 p.m. CDT on Wednesday September 24. *(Midnight EDT)
>
> And welcome Russ Heimerson back, who supplied one of them!
>
> Nancy
>
> 1. a small hat of some kind.
>
> 2, *a pickax having a sharp point or spike at the bottom of the
> handle, used by mountaineers for climbing on ice.
>
> 3. *a small protein structure found within some bacterial cells.
>
> 4. *a small decorative bridge in a garden
>
> 5. *an armor shoulder plate.
>
> 6. *an evergreen, tendril-bearing woody vine native chiefly to the
> southeast United States and having showy red-orange, trumpet-shaped
> flowers.
>
> 7. *a unit for measuring the rate of expenditure of energy, equal to
> 100 kilogrammeters per second.
>
> 8. *a short cape worn by Roman Catholic priests.
>
> 9. *small boy used to take messages between lovers in illicit
> relationships
>
> 10. sleeveless mail coat.
>
> 11. a short cape or stole made from the skins of jaguar, puma or other
> wild cats.
>
> 12. a small area which is the only environment in which a certain
> species can be found.
>
> 13. a single-arched footbridge or aqueduct
>
> 14. any of a *variety of very small dogs which can be carried in a
> purse or pocket.
>
> 15. a short traverse; a temporary footbridge.
>
> 16. a man who displays moderately effeminate behavior and
> characteristics
>
> 17. a glove with the fingertips removed.
>
> 18. a bayou on or near Lake Pontchartrain.
>
> 19. of a pale or sickly colour.
>
> 20. minor insignia usu. attached to epaulettes indicating a position
> rather than rank.
>
> 21. an armored gauntlet.

Toni Savage
September 24th, 2008, 06:47 PM
I like 1 and 8.

-- Toni Savage


> 1. a small hat of some kind.


> 8. a short cape worn by Roman Catholic priests.
>

Scott Crom
September 24th, 2008, 08:45 PM
I'll fall for 8 and 10, please.

Scott