A quiz in a magazine I picked up has some nice words that will suit our bluffing game. Rather than pick one I've chosen two.
I'd like definitions for both words please by PM (and hopefully a bit quicker than the limericks have been coming in.)

The two words for your definitions are

Calignosity
and
Faticidal

Mine are in.

As are mine

Mine too, because I'm STILL AWAKE!

These are great words--c'mon everybody else!

WM

Just a reminder to new members that they can play, too. Send a made-up definition for those words to BobHale by PM -- not a real one but a definition that will fool all the other players.

Well its getting better but I'll give you all another 48 hours on this one.

Come on people, join in, send me your definitions (remember that they don't need to be funny, just convincing)

Multiple entries are permitted!

First off an apology. I spotted something halfway through when I checked for additional citations in Onelook The words had both been misspelled (according to one look) in my magazine. I decided that it made little difference to the running or out come of the competition as long as I give the correct versions before asking you to choose. So here - with the spellings amended to correspond to onelook, are the suggestions.
For the record, one person did in fact spot that they were typos but, I assure you, not MY typos.
Apologies again for the error. I shall write to the editor and tell him about it!


1.
Caliginosity: having the texture of tree bark
Fatidical: the killing of a polynesian god

2.
Caliginosity: a scientific term for "fat-head"
Fatidical: morbidly obese

3.
Caliginosity: the study of beauty
Fatidical: of or relating to a foreordained death

4.
Caliginosity: A British band with the manifest that purports "to define the exquisite beauty of the atomic age in terms of style, sound and form".
Fatidical: The desire to lose weight

5.
Caliginosity: Dimness or darkness
Fatidical: Prophetic, having the power to foretell the future

6.
Caliginosity: Resentment of people who can draw better than onesself
Fatidical: Dietary products that cause fat cells to explode and disperse

7.
Caliginosity: The holding of the belief that God resides in California
Fatidical: harbouring dark urges to undergo liposuction repeatedly

8.
Caliginosity: The rate at which a substance reaches its kindling temperature
Fatidical: Fanciful

9.
Caliginosity: The art of divination using patterns of stones
Fatidical: Working beyond healthy limits

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Bob,

Just to be clear, is one pair of definitions correct, or are they spread? In other words, do we need to make one choice, or two?

Eight

The pair are together. You need only make one guess.

quote:

The words had both been misspelled

Oh, no! That changes everything!

Two, please.

So you launched this new game with much hype. OH!
But then you discovered a typo.
And you claim it's OK
But then to our dismay,
Poor Stella then entered a gripe. OH!

A wild guess: Five. Oh, wait - did I submit that one? Damn! A mind is a terrible thing to lose! Hmmmmm... No, I don't think I did. OK, five it is - or might be...

Asa the easily confused

Eight, please.

I'll give it five.

quote:

Originally posted by arnie:
I'll give it five.

Did any Americans at all get that reference from arnie?

Perhaps it ought to be "Oi'll give it foive". And I suspect not, even with that assistance.

Nope. Didn't get it. "Gimme five," I would have gotten. Help us to "get it," BoborArnie. ;-)

Not that I'm voting for 5. I am voting for 9, because it is sorely neglected.

Wordmatic

Unless you were in the UK in the early 'sixties it won't mean a thing. It was the catchphrase of Janice Nicholls, who is from Bob's neck of the woods, and who had her 15 minutes of fame on the TV pop music show Thank Your Lucky Stars. I suspect it still won't mean anything to Richard.

Of course the program Thank Your Lucky Stars finished when I was eight years old. However the catchphrase had by then entered popular culture and is well known to fans of pop music of the era.

quote:

Did any Americans at all get that reference from arnie?

Nope, except that the answer must be 5 since arnie selected it.

Yeah, well, I did too, so maybe not!

Is this game over just because arnie has spoken? : confused:

quote:

I suspect it still won't mean anything to Richard. Wink

In fact, so popular had the phrase become that I did know about it even though I didn't watch the programme (although to show still further my ignorance about popular music I thought the programme was called "Top of the Pops")

I had been hoping for more guesses but as it's been a slow game

Here are the results

1. arnie provided us with
Caliginosity: having the texture of tree bark
Fatidical: the killing of a polynesian god
fooling no one

2. proofreader suggested
Caliginosity: a scientific term for "fat-head"
Fatidical: morbidly obese
and lured in stella with his definitions


3. from asa we received
Caliginosity: the study of beauty
Fatidical: of or relating to a foreordained death
But sadly caught no one out

4. Kalleh's brace of meanings were
Caliginosity: A British band with the manifest that purports "to define the exquisite beauty of the atomic age in terms of style, sound and form".
Fatidical: The desire to lose weight
also failing to snare anyone

5. Of course somewhere there have to be genuine answers, and here they are
Caliginosity: Dimness or darkness
Fatidical: Prophetic, having the power to foretell the future
and it seems that arnie an asa managed to identify them

6. From stella the definitions were
Caliginosity: Resentment of people who can draw better than onesself
Fatidical: Dietary products that cause fat cells to explode and disperse
again not catching anyone

7. wordmatic offered
Caliginosity: The holding of the belief that God resides in California
Fatidical: harbouring dark urges to undergo liposuction repeatedly
and again not catching anyone

8. asa then came up with two more
Caliginosity: The rate at which a substance reaches its kindling temperature
Fatidical: Fanciful
which fared better than his previous pair, catching both proofreader and kalleh

9. I threw the last pair in myself to make up the numbers
Caliginosity: The art of divination using patterns of stones
Fatidical: Working beyond healthy limits
which successfully caught out wordmatic.

And Richard, Top of the Pops is an entirely different program that ran for many more years, finally ending in 2006.

Bob, I'm afraid that this game is now defunct. Maybe there's some site that specializes in word games where we can continue it? I'd prefer to do it here, but precious few others seem so inclined.

I respectfully disagree, Asa. Look at how many played the game this time.

This game has hung on, through thick and thin, almost since the beginning of Wordcraft. Let's not give it up, particularly since it's summer and people are vacationing.

Were this the only poorly-contested game, I'd say you were right, Kalleh, but it's been a struggle to get participants for a year. Even though I started it, I'm ready to admit defeat and move on.

Ooohhhh Noooooo! Don't kill the game! I love this game! But it is often well-buried, and Arnie at one point split the Wordplay thread in two to make it more visible. We just have to remember to scroll all the way down and look for it. It's like Entitled. I love that one too, but have to be reminded that it's there. Just because something isn't the most wildly popular thread on the board doesn't mean we should sentence it to death!

I do admit personal guilt in the business of both these games' lagging, and I apologize with a thousand mea culpas. Miserere Asaimus!
Wordmatic

It will continue if people play, of course, but do we really want to wait a month to get sufficient daffynitions to post them?

Asa the frustrated

I'm in! I'm in!

Asa, you started this game on January 10, 2004 here. We had 5 or 6 daffynitions then. Since then we've had ongoing games and the number of daffynitions has increased. Yes, we have more members, but not everyone likes to play. Some have even expressed the ridiculous criticism that we cheat (come now; there are more important things in life than winning at a game where we don't even keep score!). Others don't like games that much. Whatever.

However, there is a core group here that wants to play. Yes, sometimes people forget or are traveling or are too busy for Wordcraft and we have to pull teeth a bit. But let's not quit the game. It has been a part of this site for 5 1/2 years now.