I've never thought of starting a bluffing game before because I've always been sure that you'd all know the answer. However, CW has nagged me into doing it anyway so see how you get on.
Originally posted by Doad: I've never thought of starting a bluffing game before because I've always been sure that you'd all know the answer. However, CW has nagged me into doing it anyway so see how you get on.
the only thing that you can be certain of is that arnie will get it.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Purdie, do you know how to play? You send Doad a daffynition, that is something that you make up. You can send it by PM, which means to you to Go, My space, Private messaging. Then you click on "New Message." You will have to add Doad to your contacts, and then invite him to a private message. A private message screen will pop up, and you can send him your daffynition. Doad will post all the daffynitions, along with the correct definition, and then we all choose the answer that we think (or in arnie's case, knows!) is right. We don't keep score, but I imagine that both Jo and arnie are on top.
There's not much point in giving your daffynition in the open forum thread where everyone can see it. Once they see it in the list of daffynitions they will know yours is a fake!
The easiest way to send a PM to Doad is to click on his name to the left of his last post, just above his avatar. Choose "Invite Doad to a Private Topic" from the menu, and you'll get a private message box come up where you can type in your daffynition. Of course, you could also just tell him what it is when you see him at school.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Okay, we'll look into that. (Arnie?) Meantime, I guess it would be best to have the "private messages" delivered in person! I think they have mostly to do with what was mentioned in the couple of posts above: your "daffynitions" are supposed to be sent in anonymously, and then we see how many people (if any!) will think they're the real meaning of the word they (supposedly) never heard of before. "Chiliasm," in this round.
I think it's a rift between mole-faced chili eaters whose brains have been fried so they can't construct proper syllogisms, but do, because of the toxic effect of the chili, have premonitions of parousia. However, since I have to pick just one, and because nobody's picked it, I'll pick 3.
Sorry it's taken me a while to confirm the result here but I'm rather preoccupied with redecorating the house at the moment. As Arnie has now posted his choice and you all know he's right all the time I may as well not wait any longer. I'm sure you'll now all be stunned to know that the correct definition is in fact number 4. I shall now have to make it my life's work to find a word that Arnie doesn't know.
I didn't know the word and don't know who provided which definition, but I picked 7 because chiliasm sounded like it could have been coined from the words chili spasm or, perhaps, depending on how good the chili is, chili orgasm.
#4 seemed too obvious, given that easter is so close. Silly me! I've only heard it called millinarianism, but then I don't hang out with any Greeks. Oh, well...
Anyway, Doad, good job!
Kalleh, YOUR TURN!!! FOOL ARNIE!!! IT CAN BE DONE!!!
