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Old July 16th, 2022, 07:53 PM
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Default Re: [Dixonary] Round 3265 CANTREF results, definition length, and Babble

Yes, this was the first "ilustrated" def. I think it was the one and only
round Fernando Gelbard dealt.

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From: Daniel B Widdis <widdis (AT) dixonary (DOT) net>
To: Dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 10:09:44 -0700
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3265 CANTREF results, definition length, and
Babble

> Mike,
>
> You did win the deal in Round 615 with this submission, weighing in
> at 615 characters, most of them whitespace:
>
> 21. the Roumanian one-stringed balalaika (see illus.)
>
> Submitter: Shefler Votes: 3 & 5 0 + 8 =

8<<Winnah!
>
> Voted for by: Bourne; Widdis; Lodge; Dyer; Cunningham; Savage; Crom;
>
> Murray
>
> /!
>
> /!
>
> / !
>
> / !
>
> o / !
>
> |=+===========================/ __ | !
>
> | o--|---|---|---|---|---|--|------(--)--| !
>
> |=+===========================\ ^^ | !
>
> o \ !
>
> \ !
>
> \ !
>
> \!
>
> Vavasor
>
> From: Paul Keating <pjakeating (AT) gmail (DOT) com> on behalf of Paul Keating

<dixonary (AT) boargules (DOT) com>
> Reply-To: Dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 9:23 AM
> To: Dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3265 CANTREF results, definition
> length, and Babble
>
> 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. 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 Brooklyn Heights. 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. 12. The seed of outrageous
> fortune, esp. the envious moon, usually providing an absurdist
> counterfoil to dream. 13. O, that which we call a lamp, esp. the
> release 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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