There it is. A new word for you to play with. Send me your daffynitions via PM.

c'mon folks. SOTTISIER -- a fun word, great opportunities to blind your fellow word smiths with amazing daffynitions.

You should have received my PM, jo. Holler if it didn't appear.

got it. Yours and Kalleh's are the only ones.

just sent you mine

Mine's finally on the way. I had intended to send it much earlier, but by mistake sent it to the President after reading about Dick Cheny's telling him that two Brazilian soldiers were killed. Bush replied, "Gosh, Dick, that's too bed. Er, by the way, how big a number is a Brazillion?"

You mought have mine by now, too.

I have six. I will wait until Monday for additional daffynitions. And folks, these are great so far.

okay, so I lied. It's Sunday, not Monday. But since I will be gone most of the day and evening tomorrow, I am posting the list now. Make your choices.

1. A restaurant employee whose job it is to clean tables, mop up spillages, &c.

2. A collection of ridiculous remarks or stupidities

3. A crystal vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck and no handle; used for serving fine wines

4. An assemblage of strange or unusual tales, usually having to do with drinking and carousing.

5. Jocular nineteen-twenties coinage (after sommelier) for a waiter that continues to serve people who are clearly already inebriated.

6. a person gifted in handling drunk and unruly men

7. Archaic: one who parades insane or mentally disabled people before the public for entertainment.

8. the prompter in theatre productions of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (from Old French, from L. sotto voce, "spoken in a low voice or undertone, so as not to be overheard")

I'm going to disregard everything related to drink plus number 8's "sotto voce" (tempting though it is) as devious red herrings. That leaves only 2 and 7. So I think I'll try 7.

I like 8 too (he muttered under his breath) but I think I'll take #1 instead.

I'll pick 8.

Tinman

I'm sure it's NOT #7, since that one defines TV shows and politics, so I'll give someone (probably Hab) another point and pick #8.

Better watch out, Asa, because I had decided on 8, too...and I am always wrong. As I told Jo in a PM, if we were collecting points like we used to, I'd be outta here!

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As I told Jo in a PM, if we were collecting points like we used to, I'd be outta here!

Ah, well, Kalleh, this game IS pointless! Still, it's fun!

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
...I'll give someone (probably Hab) another point and pick #8.

Spelling theater "theatre" doesn't deflect you from this impression?

I'll go for 2.

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Spelling theater "theatre" doesn't deflect you from this impression?

Hey, you can be as devious as the rest! Besides, now that arnie's posted, we all know we're wrong anyway!

I just got home. I'm going to give it until Wednesday so y'all can vote.

C'mon.... let's have a few more votes before the end of the day today, and I will post the "real" answer tonight.

LOL...7 x

Guys, I am really sorry to do this to you, but...

The answer is Yes, you guessed it, #2!!! Arnie reigns supreme again, though boy did we fool you all.

Rex's father is dying and we have to leave within the next hour to drive all the way to Las Vegas. EEK... I'm looking at train prices to see about going via that route. Hence my premature posting of the correct answer and my not telling you whose was whose. Except that Hab was #8. He wins.

Bye all. Wish us luck.

So, Hab, did you create #8 as I thought? Mine was #7, written from my vast experience with asylums - from the inside.

I cannot tell a lie. The -re was just to make it difficult.

Although I'm more concerned with Jo's need to get to Nevada in a hurry...

Told ya, Asa! Mine was #3.

Jo, So sorry about your Rex's father.

Mine was 1., and I was pleased to have fooled Hab. My daffynitions haven't been fooling anyone lately.

Mine was #6. Hope Jo and her family are going to be ok.

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and I was pleased to have fooled Hab. My daffynitions haven't been fooling anyone lately.

Oh...as we say in America, "Go jump in the lake!"

If you are going to post that sad face, post it for me! You, my dear, are a winner at this game.