[Dixonary] Rounf 1972 troolie results

[Jim Hart]

Bill Hirst’s lever is a clear leader with 7 votes while Judy Madnick
is the real winner with 5 for her pottery guide. Me and Shorty got a
fair D2.


1 _Scot._ a shopping cart
By: Paul Keating
Who voted for: 4 & 15
and scored 3 + 0 = 3

2 [Slang] a cast iron block used with progressively finer abrasives to
surface a tool-makers flat.
By: Russ Heimerson
Who voted for: NV
and scored 1 + 0 = 1

3 _Slang_ betrothed; sweetheart; jocularly, a faithful pet. [Chiefly
Brit.]
By: Dodi Schultz
Who voted for: 8 & 15
and scored 1 + 0 = 1

4 a fishing lure designed to imitate a wounded or dying minnow. When
the angler jerks on the line, the lure dives steeply to a depth of
eight to ten feet; when the line is released, the lure slowly floats,
belly up, to the surface.
By: Scott Crom
Who voted for: 3 & 15
and scored 4 + 0 = 4

5 the leaf of the bussu palm
By: Shorter Oxford who gets D2

6 [Irish sl.] public transport.
By: Dave Cunningham
Who voted for: 5 ! & 11
and scored 0 + 2 = 2

7 a beer cooler.
By: Tim Lodge
Who voted for: 5 ! & 18
and scored 1 + 2 = 3

8 a tax collector, typically paid on commission [obs.]
By: Nancy Shepherdson
Who voted for: 2 & 4
and scored 2 + 0 = 2

9 [Sc.] a bad position for a golf ball (from _Troon lie_, the golf
course at Troon being notorious for its long rough)
By: Tim B.
Who voted for: 10 & 12
and scored 2 + 0 = 2

10 an unripened cheese similar to cottage cheese but drier and firmer
in texture.
By: Dan Widdis
Who voted for: 4 & 11
and scored 1 + 0 = 1

11 a lever about four feet long used by railroad brakemen to lift the
uncoupling pin while standing to the side of the railcar.
By: Bill Hirst
Who voted for: 9 & 12
and scored 7 + 0 = 7

12 an early wedge style golf club.
By: Chuck Emery
Who voted for: 1 & 11
and scored 2 + 0 = 2

13 a wedge of wood used temporarily in the construction of a roof.
By: Toni Savage
Who voted for: 8 & 11
and scored 0 + 0 = 0

14 guide for fixing a pottery mould for plates.
By: Judy Madnick
Who voted for: 1 & 15
and scored 1 + 0 = 1

15 a pushcart with three wheels.
By: Guerri Stevens
Who voted for: 9 & 14
and scored 5 + 0 = 5

16 a collection of trinkets or jewelry.
By: Chris Carson
Who voted for: 1 & 18
and scored 0 + 0 = 0

17 a statement made under oath [Austr. slang]
By: JohnnyB
Who voted for: DQ
and scored 0 + 0 = 0

18 a prospector's kit [Aus. esp. Northern Territory]
By: Mike Shefler
Who voted for: 4 & 11
and scored 2 + 0 = 2

19 no def
By: Dick Weltz
Who voted for: 11 & 15
and scored 0 + 0 = 0

20 no def
By: Tony Abell
Who voted for: 7 & 11
and scored 0 + 0 = 0


Take it away Bill

[Dodi Schultz]

Jim, any idea why this arrived as a separate attachment instead of regular
e-mail as your earlier posts did?

--Dodi

[Jim Hart]

No idea, Dodi. I wrote the message from within the Google groups
Dixonary site, as I did with the earlier posts. That's to say I opened
a new message box, then cut-and-pasted the actual results which I had
prepared in a Word file, then I added the top and tail paras.

I followed a similar process when I posted the defs in my earlier
posting, and it seems you got that one OK.

In each case I checked again after posting and it looked normal to me,
but then you get yours by email.

It's all a mystery to me.

Jim

On Jan 24, 9:49*am, Dodi Schultz <SCHU... (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote:
> Jim, any idea why this arrived as a separate attachment instead of regular
> e-mail as your earlier posts did?
>
> --Dodi

[Dodi Schultz]

There WAS something different about the results report, Jim. The apostrophe
in the first graf ("Bill Hirst's lever") came through not as an apostrophe
but as Æ (I don't know how that will come through, but I did it with the
Alt-num keys, and it's a cap A/E jammed together--which has a name I never
can remember). CompuServe supposedly recognizes that symbol when it's
produced the way I just did it, so perhaps it was seen as something
entirely alien.

But it was supposed to be an apostrophe. I'm sure I've seen perfectly
normal apostrophes in your messages before; did you produce that one in
some unusual way?

--Dodi

[Jim Hart]

Well maybe that's what did it. I now see that that para was written
within MS Word so the apostrophe would have been a high-ascii right-
quote, rather than a basic low-ascii character. OTOH the earlier text
was also written in Word but without any apostrophes or suchlike.

Does that explain it perhaps?

Jim


On Jan 24, 4:42*pm, Dodi Schultz <SCHU... (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote:
> There WAS something different about the results report, Jim. The apostrophe
> in the first graf ("Bill Hirst's lever") came through not as an apostrophe
> but as Æ (I don't know how that will come through, but I did it with the
> Alt-num keys, and it's a cap A/E jammed together--which has a name I never
> can remember). CompuServe supposedly recognizes that symbol when it's
> produced the way I just did it, so perhaps it was seen as something
> entirely alien.
>
> But it was supposed to be an apostrophe. I'm sure I've seen perfectly
> normal apostrophes in your messages before; did you produce that one in
> some unusual way?
>
> --Dodi