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JohnnyB
February 13th, 2009, 03:54 PM
This was a calm round - I think

Toni Savage scored 7 and is our next dealer The 'real' winners are Chuck
Emery, Paul Keating with 4 points each.
I got a D3 which was better than I expected as many of us are of that age
that might have recognised mescal buttons which is what $3 is.

JohnnyB

1: a non-venomous sub-Arctic snow snake of the genus _Nerodia_, common to
Siberia and parts of Scandinavia
Voted for by: Tony Abell, Chuck Emery
FROM Mike Shefler who voted 10 and 15, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

2: To greet another or exchange greetings in Maori fashion by touching or
pressing noses together
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham
FROM Chris Carson who didn't vote, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

3: [Comanche] In Oklahoma, the name of the narcotic cactus Lophophora
williamsii
Voted for by: Toni Savage, Tony Abell, Russ Heimerson
FROM Century Dictionary on_line which can't vote, and scores D3

4: [from native name] a small antelope found in eastern and southwestern
Africa
Voted for by: Scott Crom
FROM Russ Heimerson who voted *3* and 15, and scores 1 + 2 = 3*

5: an Inuit totem representing the spirit of a beaver
Voted for by: Tim Bourne, Paul Keating, Guerri Stevens, Chuck Emery, Dodi
Schultz
FROM Toni Savage who voted *3* and 12, and scores 5 + 2 = 7*

6: an illegally-distilled vodka of Southern Poland
Voted for by: Nancy Sheperdson
FROM Tim Lodge who voted 13 and 15, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

7: [Maori] the pit used for a _hangi_ q.v
Voted for by nobody
FROM Dave Cunningham who voted 2 and 8, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

8: [Maori] a feast to honour visitors
Voted for by: Dick Weltz, Paul Keating, Dave Cunningham, Dodi Schultz
FROM Chuck Emery who voted 1 and 5, and scores 4 + 0 = 4

9: the monk seal (Haw.)
Voted for by nobody
FROM Tim Bourne who voted 5 and 17, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

10: [W. Afr.] kin by marriage
Voted for by: Nancy Sheperdson, Mike Shefler
FROM Dodi Schultz who voted 5 and 8, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

11: the smallest unit of value (Maori)
Voted for by nobody
FROM Nancy Sheperdson who voted 6 and 10, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

12: South African beautiful flowering plant
Voted for by: Toni Savage
FROM Judy Madnick who voted 13 and 14, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

13: One of the "disappearing islands" of the Oder river
Voted for by: Tim Lodge, Judy Madnick
FROM Bill Hirst who voted 16 and 18, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

14: one of the 124 "minor islands" of the Hawaiian chain
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Guerri Stevens
FROM Dick Weltz who voted 8 and 18, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

15: a kind of Lithuanian hand-puppet; _attrib._ play for, performance of
this
Voted for by: Tim Lodge, Mike Shefler, Russ Heimerson, Scott Crom
FROM Paul Keating who voted 5 and 8, and scores 4 + 0 = 4

16: A ritual of negotiation practiced by the Moriori people of the Chatham
Islands
Voted for by: Bill Hirst
FROM Tony Abell who voted 1 and *3*, and scores 1 + 2 = 3*

17: A spirit which the Native American Iroquois believed was responsible for
winter weather. especially blizzards
Voted for by: Tim Bourne
FROM Scott Crom who voted 4 and 15, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

18: a mental block, such as forgetting a person's name or being unable to
find the words to express a particular idea
Voted for by: Bill Hirst, Dick Weltz
FROM Guerri Stevens who voted 5 and 14, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

France International
February 13th, 2009, 04:13 PM
I can't believe I fooled 2 people with snow snakes!

JohnnyB
February 13th, 2009, 04:23 PM
I wondered what their heating system was

JohnnyB
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France International
February 13th, 2009, 04:33 PM
Fur.
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Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Results Rnd 1978 WOKWOWI


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Dodi Schultz
February 13th, 2009, 05:04 PM
It was WOKOWI, no?

--Dodi

Dodi Schultz
February 13th, 2009, 05:04 PM
JB>> I wondered what their heating system was.

MS>> Fur.

I figured sealskin.

JohnnyB
February 14th, 2009, 03:39 AM
Sorry, it was WOKOWI - I had a problem not misspelling it all through

I'd like to register my appreciation for Bill's "stir-fried thumb" , I
needed a laugh, Thanks

JohnnyB

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