[Dixonary] BEESWING - Rnd 2187

[Steve Graham]

Friends: Time is fleeting to get your definitions in for round 2187



If you haven't already done so, please send your definitions to my e-mail:
sdgraham (AT) duckswild (DOT) com



My thanks to all those nice folks for their kind words as I try to master
the art of the deal, so to speak.



Submissions close at 0300 Thursday UTC, which, of course, is the time in
London, England.



That's 1900 here on the U.S. West Coast and 2200 in N'yawk.



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I have received definitions (15) from:



Toni Savage

Jim Hart

Keith Hale

Tim Lodge

Christopher Carson

Mike Harrington

John Barrs

Dick Weltz

Judy Madnick

Daniel B. Widdis

Mike Shefler

Tim Bourne

Millie Morgan

Matthew Grieco

Guerri Stevens





Steve Graham

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read. Groucho Marx

[Dave Cunningham]

The prior notice did not make it to the Google page :(

Dave

On Mar 9, 11:07*am, "Steve Graham" <sdgra... (AT) duckswild (DOT) com> wrote:
> Friends: Time is fleeting to get your definitions in for round 2187
>
> If you haven't already done so, please send your definitions to my e-mail:
> sdgra... (AT) duckswild (DOT) com
>
> My thanks to all those nice folks for their kind words as I try to master
> the art of the deal, so to speak.
>
> Submissions close at 0300 Thursday UTC, which, of course, is the time in
> London, England.
>
> That's 1900 here on the U.S. West Coast and 2200 in N'yawk.
>
> * * **************
>
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>
> * * * *BEESWING **
>
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>
> * * **************
>
> I have received definitions (15) from:
>
> Toni Savage
>
> Jim Hart
>
> Keith Hale
>
> Tim Lodge
>
> Christopher Carson
>
> Mike Harrington
>
> John Barrs
>
> Dick Weltz
>
> Judy Madnick
>
> Daniel B. Widdis
>
> Mike Shefler
>
> Tim Bourne
>
> Millie Morgan
>
> Matthew Grieco
>
> Guerri Stevens
>
> Steve Graham
>
> * _____ *
>
> Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
> dark to read. Groucho Marx

[Daniel B. Widdis]

DC> The prior notice did not make it to the Google page :(

It did, but buried as a reply to another thread.

If you want to play web-based, I really recommend tapcis.com.

--
Dan

[Dodi Schultz]

Dan Widdis wrote:

> If you want to play web-based, I really recommend tapcis.com.
>

I looked in there yesterday. Gee, except for Dixonary, the place is
dead. Anyway, it also seems to bury stuff that's under a "wrong" thread
title.

But I'm curious: Why does anyone want to play that way, instead of by
e-mail? I see disadvantages but no advantages.

—Dodi

[Steve Graham]

Friends:

As Jeff Probst says at "Tribal Council" on the American TV program Survivor,
"It's time to vote."

I hope this gets through properly on the Google Groups discussion page
inasmuch as I, an e-mail user, have run afoul of Google's outthink
mentality. Please let me know if there's a problem.

We have 19 deucedly clever definitions provided by our creative participants
and one from a stodgy old dictionary.

You will note that some of the definitions might appear to be similar. As
dealer-czar, however, I determined them to have significant differences.

Please vote for two via a message - either by reply to this missive or to
dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com

The deadline is 1500 hours UTC (such as is found in Dorking, England) on 11
March 2011. That is, or should be the same as 0700 hours in Boring, Oregon
(PST), 0800 hours in Two Dot, Montana (MST), 0900 hours in Dripping Springs,
Texas (CST) or Cheesequake, New Jersey (EST). (All on 11 March, 2011). I
think that also is at 0100 hours on 12 March in Eastern Australia, such as
Wagga Wagga, NSW.

For a full list of offsets from UTC, see. www.wikipedia.com/timezones

1. a yellow crocus

2. violent wind squall

3. a light taffeta fabric

4. a pale, sandy yellow color

5. a filmy crust on old port wine

6. the lesser burdock _arctium minor_

7. a very thin paper often used as a light filter

8. a tiny amount; a scarcely detectable length or distance

9. a traditional design element used in ornamental tattoos

10. a short cape, covering only the shoulders and upper arms

11. the molding between the corona and frieze of an entablature.

12. a transparent celluloid material formerly used for watch crystals

13. an irregular pattern traced by a pendulum or other free-swinging device

14. in dressmaking, a type of fastening consisting of two overlapping flaps

15. a variety of edible mushroom characterized by a fragile, lace-like
undercap

16. southern European plant commonly cultivated for its spikes of small
yellowish-black flowers

17. (aeronautics) - an experimental transparent wing design for micro-spy
aircraft developed by NASA engineers.

18. an exceptionally fine silk made from fibers less than 10 microns in
diameter and used in the manufacture of lingerie.

19. a decorative technique in glass-making, in which a design is applied to
a glass object by dribbling molten glass onto it.

20. a type of very fine silk lace, also known as "wedding ring lace" from
its use for a bridal shawl which traditionally could be pulled through a
wedding ring.



Steve Graham <mailto:sdgraham (AT) duckswild (DOT) com>

[Daniel B. Widdis]

Steve,

I strongly recommend you Re-post this as a new message, and not as a reply
to your update message. Because it shares both the same subject line and
threading indicators that your mail client produced when you used the
"reply" feature, it's buried as message #5 in other threads, and some
players are sure to miss it.

--
Dan

From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Steve Graham
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:03 PM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: RE: [Dixonary] BEESWING - Rnd 2187

Friends:
As Jeff Probst says at "Tribal Council" on the American TV program Survivor,
"It's time to vote."
I hope this gets through properly on the Google Groups discussion page
inasmuch as I, an e-mail user, have run afoul of Google's outthink
mentality. Please let me know if there's a problem.
We have 19 deucedly clever definitions provided by our creative participants
and one from a stodgy old dictionary.
You will note that some of the definitions might appear to be similar. As
dealer-czar, however, I determined them to have significant differences.
Please vote for two via a message - either by reply to this missive or to
dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
The deadline is 1500 hours UTC (such as is found in Dorking, England) on 11
March 2011. That is, or should be the same as 0700 hours in Boring, Oregon
(PST), 0800 hours in Two Dot, Montana (MST), 0900 hours in Dripping Springs,
Texas (CST) or Cheesequake, New Jersey (EST). (All on 11 March, 2011). I
think that also is at 0100 hours on 12 March in Eastern Australia, such as
Wagga Wagga, NSW.
For a full list of offsets from UTC, see. www.wikipedia.com/timezones
1. a yellow crocus
2. violent wind squall
3. a light taffeta fabric
4. a pale, sandy yellow color
5. a filmy crust on old port wine
6. the lesser burdock _arctium minor_
7. a very thin paper often used as a light filter
8. a tiny amount; a scarcely detectable length or distance
9. a traditional design element used in ornamental tattoos
10. a short cape, covering only the shoulders and upper arms
11. the molding between the corona and frieze of an entablature.
12. a transparent celluloid material formerly used for watch crystals
13. an irregular pattern traced by a pendulum or other free-swinging device
14. in dressmaking, a type of fastening consisting of two overlapping flaps
15. a variety of edible mushroom characterized by a fragile, lace-like
undercap
16. southern European plant commonly cultivated for its spikes of small
yellowish-black flowers
17. (aeronautics) - an experimental transparent wing design for micro-spy
aircraft developed by NASA engineers.
18. an exceptionally fine silk made from fibers less than 10 microns in
diameter and used in the manufacture of lingerie.
19. a decorative technique in glass-making, in which a design is applied to
a glass object by dribbling molten glass onto it.
20. a type of very fine silk lace, also known as "wedding ring lace" from
its use for a bridal shawl which traditionally could be pulled through a
wedding ring.

Steve Graham <mailto:sdgraham (AT) duckswild (DOT) com>

[Daniel B. Widdis]

DS> I looked in there yesterday. Gee, except for Dixonary,
DS> the place is dead.

Yep. Given that the only people there were prior users of the TAPCIS forum
on CS, and no real reason for new people to join up, you can expect
attrition over time. Note that by default I think it only shows you the last
two days of threads... not that there are terribly more if you go up to a
month.

DS> Anyway, it also seems to bury stuff that's under a
DS> "wrong" thread title.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. It creates a new thread when the
subject line changes (other than the RE: and [Dixonary] labels which are
ignored). So of course if you're talking about potted plants or chopped
liver in a thread labeled BEESWING - Rnd 2187 it will get buried.

However, I have proposed it primarily as an alternative to using the Google
Groups website, which is much more dumb in its threading. If you reply to a
message, even if you change the subject, it gets buried in the thread.
Steve's posting of the definitions for voting is unfortunate in that not
only is it a reply to a previous message (thus threading itself on
GoogleGroups site) but shares the same subject line as previous messages and
thus is autothreaded at tapcis.com as well.

Dealers should, when possible, try to use "new woid" and "vote" in their
subject lines for those important postings, to make sure they're not missed.

DS> Why does anyone want to play that way, instead of by
DS> e-mail? I see disadvantages but no advantages.

As I prefer email, I'm probably not the best one to answer this, but I'll
posit a few possibilities:
- web-based interfaces can present multiple messages at once on the screen,
so it's easier to scan previous votes to determine the "vox pop", etc.
- some email users like to cut down on email spam by requesting a digest of
messages once a day. Replying to digest messages is impractical, and IIRC
has links to the website if you click to reply there.
- Some people without a dedicated email client like thunderbird or outlook
are having to read email on the web anyway. For them, there's not much
difference in google groups vs. a webmail interface.
- Some smartphones allow website access but not email access.

--
Dan

[Dodi Schultz]

> The deadline is . . . 0700 hours in Boring, Oregon (PST), 0800 hours
> in Two Dot, Montana (MST), 0900 hours in Dripping Springs, Texas (CST)
> or Cheesequake, New Jersey (EST). (All on 11 March, 2011). . . .
>

I do believe that Cheesequake is in fact an hour later than Dripping
Springs and would actually be enjoying a deadline of 1000 hours,
although a big chunk of New Jersey (whether including Cheesequake, I
know not) is likely to be Dripping by then, on account of it is already
flooded and folks are getting around (at least in Little Falls,
according to the TV news) by rowboat instead of car and the rivers
haven't crested yet and heavy rains are expected Thursday.

Oh. Votes. Yes. Nice lot here. Haven't the faintest. I'll try:

> 7. a very thin paper often used as a light filter
>

and

> 14. in dressmaking, a type of fastening consisting of two overlapping
> flaps

—Dodi

[Dodi Schultz]

Dan Widdis wrote:

> DS> Why does anyone want to play [at a website] instead of by
> e-mail? I see disadvantages but no advantages.

> As I prefer email, I'm probably not the best one to answer this, but
> I'll posit a few possibilities:

- web-based interfaces can present
> multiple messages at once on the screen, so it's easier to scan
> previous votes to determine the "vox pop", etc.

- some email users
> like to cut down on email spam by requesting a digest of messages
> once a day. Replying to digest messages is impractical, and IIRC has
> links to the website if you click to reply there.

- some people
> without a dedicated email client like thunderbird or outlook are
> having to read email on the web anyway. For them, there's not much
> difference in google groups vs. a webmail interface.

- some
> smartphones allow website access but not email access.

Hm. I understand the last, if one's forced to vote away from home and
owns a smartphone. I don't seem to get spam since dropping dial-up. And
I wouldn't be without Tbird. Oh, well, de gustibus . . .

DS

[Tim B]

6 and 15, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 5 and 8.

Guerri

Steve Graham wrote:
>
> 5. a filmy crust on old port wine
> 8. a tiny amount; a scarcely detectable length or distance