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Bluffing Game: OVERSTORY

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July 21, 2007, 20:10
<Asa Lovejoy>
Bluffing Game: OVERSTORY
Overstory is the new word. Get silly with YOUR story regarding its meaning!
July 22, 2007, 12:34
wordmatic
OK, you've got mine!

Wordmatic
July 24, 2007, 14:02
TrossL
sent mine too
July 24, 2007, 18:07
Kalleh
Mine's on the way...

Great word (not that I know it)!
July 29, 2007, 20:50
<Asa Lovejoy>
It appears that nobody's going to send a story about the meaning of "overstory, " so here are the daffynitions, plus the real ne:

1. The tallest trees in a forest, also called the canopy.

2. (obs.) Surplus pantry goods

3. A yard light; popular in the 1960s, especially in rural regions of the United States.

4. A plot mechanism that allows the author to allude to a storyline from a previously published book

5. The topmost of several layers of crinoline petticoats.

6. the last or final article in a newpaper or other printed publication

7. The bib overalls worn by itinerant story tellers.

8. A part of the hold of a ship where items of cargo can be stacked on top of each other without danger.

9. Fulsome praise; hyperbole.

10 A penthouse; also the dwelling units in a mixed-use development.

There you be, take your pick! Let's see who told the best story!
July 30, 2007, 14:01
wordmatic
OK, even though several others seem as if they should be the real one, I'm going to go with #6.

Wordmatic
July 30, 2007, 14:22
jerry thomas
On a scale of one to ten I'm giving number ten a ten. Confused Eek Big Grin Cool
July 30, 2007, 20:53
Kalleh
Well, I really like #1. It's probably not correct, but I am going to choose it anyway.
July 31, 2007, 04:41
Caterwauller
I already guessed the right answer when I sent in my bogus one . . . so . . .

*doing happy dance around kitchen*


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July 31, 2007, 07:37
bethree5
I'm w/Kalleh..... #1: trees, please.
August 01, 2007, 03:48
arnie
No. 1 for me as well, please.


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August 01, 2007, 12:48
Kalleh
Hmmm...suddenly mine's not looking so bad! Cool
August 04, 2007, 07:22
<Asa Lovejoy>
Since nobody else seems to want to provide a guess, here we go with the results:
quote:


1. The tallest trees in a forest, also called the canopy.
Kalleh, you must be thrilled to have picked the real one! Shout it from the treetops! Of course, arnie and beethree5 picked it too!

2. (obs.) Surplus pantry goods
Bethree5's submission

3. A yard light; popular in the 1960s, especially in rural regions of the United States.
This one was from Kalleh.

4. A plot mechanism that allows the author to allude to a storyline from a previously published book
Caterwaulllllllller submitted this one after she submitted the actual defintion. Smile

5. The topmost of several layers of crinoline petticoats.
Wordmatic's underwear now exposed!


6. the last or final article in a newpaper or other printed publication
Trossl tossed this one in, fooling Wordmatic.

7. The bib overalls worn by itinerant story tellers.
Jerry Thomas wears these,when writing his daffynitions. Big Grin

8. A part of the hold of a ship where items of cargo can be stacked on top of each other without danger.
arnie shipped this one to us.

9. Fulsome praise; hyperbole.
Wordmatic also submitted this one with regard to her petticoats. Big Grin

10 A penthouse; also the dwelling units in a mixed-use development.
I added this one just to fool Jerry. Razz


That's it - who's next?
August 04, 2007, 19:27
Kalleh
Great word, and I love your little sidebars. Wink

You are correct, I am ecstatic. I can tell you, it was all guess. I bet bethree and arnie knew it though.
August 05, 2007, 07:51
wordmatic
Ahem! My 1958 underwear, that is! My sister and I used to spend a ridiculous amount of time starching those derned things. I can't imagine now that we actually wore them, but everyone did in those days! Poodle skirts and crinolines.

I almost bit on TrossL's offering. In the newspaper business, back in the old days before "cold type," the galleys would come back to the copy desk from the composing room with the "overtype" set on the side. That was the part of the story that wouldn't fit into the space allotted, and we would have to decide where to cut the story so that it would fit.
August 07, 2007, 20:17
TrossL
Shoot... I've been swamped with pre-planning and didn't get to guess. (I would have guessed #10 though.)
August 07, 2007, 20:50
<Asa Lovejoy>
I'm sorry, Trossl - I wondered what had happened to you.

Do you perhaps have a new word for us?