Heh!

No, not really. But I do give technical presentations, and I try to use
some of my dry humor to keep the audience from falling asleep.
Close enough?

Op 25-7-2019 om 23:01 schreef Shani Naylor:
> Hugo - have you ever thought of being a stand-up comedian?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 3:59 AM Hugo Kornelis <hugo (AT) perfact (DOT) info
> <mailto:hugo (AT) perfact (DOT) info>> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim!
>
> I'll admit, I am totally clueless. After eliminating the
> impossible, I was left with nothing. After doing it again, with a
> lower threshold, Had reduced the list to 14 candidates
>
> Out of these, I'll go with #4 and 11.
>
> Cheers,
> Hugo
>
> Op 25-7-2019 om 15:28 schreef Tim Lodge:
>>
>> It's 36°C/97°F here and we haven't got aircon - not exactly
>> conducive to working at a computer!Â* Anyway we have 14
>> imaginative defs of the word GRAINEUR, only one of which came
>> from my dictionary.Â* Please vote for your two favourites by
>> public reply to this message, before the deadline of:
>>
>>
>> 11:00 on Saturday 27th July, which is
>>
>> 10:00 GMT
>>
>> 12:00 CET
>>
>> Â*6:00 AM EDT
>>
>> Â*3:00 AM PDT
>>
>> 22:00 NZST in New Zealand
>>
>>
>> New players are welcome- just don't look after the word until
>> after you've voted:
>>
>>
>> --Â* Tim L
>>
>>
>> Â**** GRAINEUR ***
>>
>>
>> 1. a safe cracker.
>>
>> 2. a meat grinder.
>>
>> 3. a ceremonial trumpeter.
>>
>> 4. a producer of silkworm eggs.
>>
>> 5. a peddler of devotional literature.
>>
>> 6. an engraver who specializes in designing stock certificates.
>>
>> 7. (Obs.) a worker in a flour mill who ensured the wheat was free
>> from foreign matter.
>>
>> 8. a person skilled in painting false grains on plaster, in
>> imitation of expensive woods.
>>
>> 9. a measure of the amount a photographic negative can be
>> enlarged before blurring results.
>>
>> 10. the person in charge of drying, grinding and mashing malt to
>> make wort for Scotch whisky.
>>
>> 11. an instrument used by ploughmen for keeping their horses a
>> little apart, that they may see forward between them to make a
>> straight furrow.
>>
>> 12. a combination of live bacteria and yeasts that exist in a
>> symbiotic matrix on a surface of a complex polysaccharide with a
>> casein core from which kefir milk is produced.
>>
>> 13. one of a class of poet-musicians flourishing in northern
>> France in the 1100s and 1200s, who composed chiefly narrative
>> works, such as the chansons de geste, in langue d'oïl.
>>
>> 14. originally used to describe the mottled appearance of the
>> lunar surface seen under sufficient resolution capable of
>> determining small meteorite strike-pits; asteroid surfaces also
>> have the same appearance and the term has been expanded to cover
>> these.
>>
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