Mike, it was round 2000 (early May 2009), and your def was:

1. The slings and parts of Scandinavia. 2. A nunnery, which we call a
winged messenger of the species. 3. A glove upon the seed of the white
upturned wondering eyes in a communications stream. 4. A burial mound or
not. 5. The seed of the lazy pacing clouds. 6. To be lost, esp. the
place you can lose control. 7.Â* a small spat or, when he loaded up
through the sun, the Ballet Russe, her vestal livery in the town of
Bedrock. 8. A technique using staged tunable rectifiers to see from
BrooklynÂ* Heights.Â* 9. A technique using staged tunable rectifiers to be
in heaven. 10. the signal-to-noise ratio in Washington. 11. the body of
Albert Camus, usually providing an idiot, moving away from Brooklyn
Heights.Â* 12. The seed of outrageousfortune, esp. the envious moon,
usually providing an absurdist counterfoil to dream.Â* 13. O, that which
we call a lamp, esp. the releaseÂ* mechanism of a lamp, most esp. the
airy region stream so bright that they fall back to this night, and
refuse thy father and think it is attached, causing its automatic
deployment when he bestrides the release mechanism of mortals that fall
back to wind evenly.

submitted as not one, but rather thirteen definitions for favillous,
which actually means “consisting of or resembling ashes�. The deal went
to went to John Barrs, but it couldn’t really be called a win, because
the round was terminated early by a very explicit public DQ, so eight of
the 16 submitters did not get to cast a vote.

There aren’t stats for definition length, so I can’t confirm that its
1,128 characters constitutes a record. With so much material to work
with, it wasn’t hard to pick up collocations (envious moon, outrageous
fortune) that were readily traceable to some of Babble’s default input
texts (Romeo and Juliet, balcony scene, and Hamlet, soliloquy), and so
to identify Babble as the true author.

At the time I still had a working copy of Babble. Of course, even if I
still had it, it would not run without a DOS emulator. But rather than
try to make that work, it would probably be more fun to recreate the
program using modern ML techniques. I was playing with that idea just
last week.

'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary wrote on 2022-07-12 17:26:
> IIRC I think I created the longest def using the
> stream-of-consciousness program /babble/. I can't find the def and I
> don't remember the round, though. As I recall, it did not win the round.
>
> --Mike
>

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Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

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