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Judy Madnick
August 16th, 2005, 06:57 AM
There are a total of 18 definitions for GULIX. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before deadline, which is 6:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, August 17, 2005, or 3:00 PM PDT. (Again, other times zones -- you're on your own!) Since this is the first time I've used Cory, I'll be interested in knowing whether the following "wraps" poorly in some email programs.

Thanks . . . and good luck!

*1.*a ball game for two players. Each player has a water-filled bottle,
****which the other player attempts to topple with the ball.

*2.*a large black cap, usually of sheepskin or felt, worn in Turkey,
****the Caucasus, Iran, and neighboring regions.

*3.*an upright ornament along the eaves of a tiled roof designed to
****conceal the joints between the rows of tiles.

*4.*a twisted leaf-like pattern formed by using polar coordinates to
****map values for the tangent and cosine.

*5.*a genus of plants related to flax, including gulix gulix, the food
****plant of the Monarch butterfly.

*6.*the red-colored cloth sewn onto crusader surcoats to make the shape
****of the cross [heraldic].

*7.*the modified calyx in which carnivorous plants digest their prey
****[NL; L _gula_ gullet, qv].

*8.*(of a speech, book, etc.) so brief as to be unintelligible.

*9.*thicker or wider at the ends than in the middle.

10.*[L.] concealed, or the act of concealment.

11.*a division of land: a right of common.

12.*a collecting structure in the kidney.

13.* _Math._ the inverse of a helix, q.v.

14.*the name of a Pokemon character.

15.*a poldar that is ready to reap.

16.*kind of fine linen.

17.*a dolt; a fool.

18.*silent.


Judy Madnick
Albany, NY



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Hugo Kornelis
August 16th, 2005, 07:33 AM
Hi Judy,

Just to prove that I've read them all (backwards), I'll cast my votes at

> 1. a ball game for two players. Each player has a water-filled bottle,
> which the other player attempts to topple with the ball.

and

> 2. a large black cap, usually of sheepskin or felt, worn in Turkey,
> the Caucasus, Iran, and neighboring regions.

Best, Hugo



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Tim Bourne
August 16th, 2005, 09:16 AM
11 and 13, please, Judy.

Tim B





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Wayne Scott
August 16th, 2005, 12:57 PM
Because I'm a #17 and because I would like to be shaped like #9 and regret that I'm shaped just the opposite, I'll vote for them

Daniel B. Widdis
August 16th, 2005, 03:07 PM
On 8/16/05, Judy Madnick <email (AT) judyandstu (DOT) com> wrote:
> There are a total of 18 definitions for GULIX. Please vote for two

If 8 isn't a GULIX, I'd like to know what word matches that
definition. And I have no idea how one would invert a helix, so if 13
is true, I want to see the picture.

> I'll be interested in knowing whether the following "wraps" poorly in
> some email programs.

I'm reading my gmail using the web based client and the entire message
was shrunk down into a rather miniscule font. The definition list
seemed to wrap about 2/3 of the way down the page, while the opening
paragraphs went further. Did you specify a particular font in your
post?
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Dan Widdis


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Paul Keating
August 16th, 2005, 04:27 PM
Dan Widdis >> I'm reading my gmail using the web based client

Web-based email clients are universally horrid and tolerable only when you
are away from your home base and are glad to read your email at all, no
matter how clunkily presented.

They are emergency expedients not (yet, anyway) intended for day-to-day use,
except perhaps by their overfond authors. For whom spare a thought. It is
downright difficult to write a half-decent email client that works in a
browser.

I see email (that does not come as HTML) in the font I chose for a
compromise between legibility and the joy of looking at it, and the wrap
anomalies I see are no worse than we had in Tapcis or CIS WebView.


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Paul Keating
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Guerri Stevens
August 16th, 2005, 07:14 PM
I vote for 2 and 7.

Guerri



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chm
August 16th, 2005, 08:23 PM
#4 and #13

Although I'm fond of #15 (I don't know what the heck it means but am fascinated. What is a poldar?), as well as others.

chm

Russ Heimerson
August 17th, 2005, 06:32 AM
I'll go for # 7 and # 13, please.

Russ


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Tony Abell
August 17th, 2005, 11:43 AM
For the sake of convenience, I'll take 7 and 11.




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Christopher Carson
August 17th, 2005, 11:55 AM
Judy,

I'll go for 8 and 15.

Chris



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Paul Keating
August 17th, 2005, 03:03 PM
I vote for 11 and 13.

Not that I believe either of them.

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