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Since there's a lull in the limericks I'll keep the wordplay section going with this word. Send me a fake, fanciful, fraudulent, or frivolous daffynition by PM - and DON'T look up the real meaning!


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I have daffynitions from three of you so far - all very good! Keep 'em coming!


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Here are the results:

1. A dermabrasion or exfoliant instrument.

My own effort to skin someone. Didn't rub anyone the right way.

2. An acolyte; a follower.

The right one. Usually it's an inferior, not an equal, say the dictionaries. Arnie and Tinman knew it.

3. What a fencer says when he realizes his
sword is missing.

Proofreader tried to stick someone with his rapier wit, to no avail.

4. A poem concerned with death and destruction.

Proofreader's, who fooled Kalleh, Bob, and bethree5.

5. A cozy nook.

Zmježd's submission. Nobody cozied up to it.

6. The empty feeling after joy in another's
misfortune has faded.

Obviously written for Kalleh, by bethree5.

7. A model of filial devotion

B35 again.

8. The child of an incestuous union

And again.

9. A drama term for the character who resolves the entanglements by supernatural intervention.

Kalleh's version of Deus Ex Machina, I suppose.

10. A eulogy that is written, but not necessarily delivered orally at a funeral.

Arnie's scholrly-sounding submission

11. The world's first virtual porcine entity.

Bob's submission. Was he thinking of Pink Floyd?

12. Someone with a severe allergy who has lost his Epinephrine Auto-Injector

Bob's again

13. A medical sub-dermal injector used to insert drugs under the skin.

Bob one more time!

14. A recently discovered Greek tragedy possibly by Aeschylus.

If pronounced as four syllables, it kinda sounds plausible - except I made it up.

There you have it - now what?

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Said poor Cyrano, sad and forlorn,
"There's a thief rues the day he was born.
He has taken my sword
And, I'll tell you -- my lord --
I feel naked with my epigone."

I know the def so I'll pass.
 
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You sure got a lot in a short time!

I could swear I knew it, until those daffys. My inclination is to take #6 because I think it was meant for me. Wink But, I'll take #4.
 
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Proof,

You should still enter even if you know the real answer. You don't have to give the proper definition, just vote!

I'll try 2.


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You should still enter even if you know the real answer. You don't have to give the proper definition, just vote!


And what particular advantage accrues if I vote? If I vote for the one I know, it means nothing. Should I vote for one I know is wrong, I look stupid.
 
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And what particular advantage accrues if I vote?

I get another voter! Vote early; vote often! Only two votes so far. Where is everybody?

BTW, two of the stupid ones are the ones I added. Big Grin


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4


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
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hmmmm. I'll try #4
 
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Anyone else?


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I'll guess 2. I'd like to believe it was 14, but, I don't think so.
 
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It actually means "the first virtual porker." E-pig-one
 
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It actually means "the first virtual porker." E-pig-one


You mean as in number 11?


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You mean as in number 11?

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Somehow 'epigone' suggests a rather extreme exfoliation therapy...
 
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You mean as in number 11?

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11. The world's first virtual porcine entity.

(porcine = pig-like = porker
first = first
virtual = virtual)

As no one is likely to vote for this definition I think I can safely out myself as thiinking e-pig-one when I wrote it.


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Sorry, Bob. I completely missed that reference and never noticed that my post duplicated your entry.
 
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Originally posted by Geoff:
Here are the results:

1. A dermabrasion or exfoliant instrument.

My own effort to skin someone. Didn't rub anyone the right way.

2. An acolyte; a follower.

The right one. Usually it's an inferior, not an equal, say the dictionaries. Arnie and Tinman knew it.

3. What a fencer says when he realizes his
sword is missing.

Proofreader tried to stick someone with his rapier wit, to no avail.

4. A poem concerned with death and destruction.

Proofreader's, who fooled Kalleh, Bob, and bethree5.

5. A cozy nook.

Zmježd's submission. Nobody cozied up to it.

6. The empty feeling after joy in another's
misfortune has faded.

Obviously written for Kalleh, by bethree5.

7. A model of filial devotion

B35 again.

8. The child of an incestuous union

And again.

9. A drama term for the character who resolves the entanglements by supernatural intervention.

Kalleh's version of Deus Ex Machina, I suppose.

10. A eulogy that is written, but not necessarily delivered orally at a funeral.

Arnie's scholrly-sounding submission

11. The world's first virtual porcine entity.

Bob's submission. Was he thinking of Pink Floyd?

12. Someone with a severe allergy who has lost his Epinephrine Auto-Injector

Bob's again

13. A medical sub-dermal injector used to insert drugs under the skin.

Bob one more time!

14. A recently discovered Greek tragedy possibly by Aeschylus.

If pronounced as four syllables, it kinda sounds plausible - except I made it up.

There you have it - now what?


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
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Originally posted by Geoff:
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2. An acolyte; a follower.

The right one. Usually it's an inferior, not an equal, say the dictionaries. Arnie and Tinman knew it.

Arnie probably knew it, but I didn't. I just guessed.
 
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Oh, heck. I should have known what acolyte meant!

I was a little surprised that Bob was fooled by proof's submission since it was about poetry.
 
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When I don't know I tend to pick at random.
(or, to put it another way, I always pick at random. Big Grin)


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Ah, that makes sense. I, on the other hand, try my darndest, and yet I always seem to get it wrong anyway.
 
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