Since nobody else has jumped in with a new word, here's one! Shiltron I'm sure a couple of you know it, but it sounds like one that should get some funny daffynitions, soooooo go for it!

Four daffynitions so far. Come on, get 'em in to me by Private Message or at ama11285@hevanet.com

You new members are encouraged to submit daffynitions too!

Only five daffynitions so far! Come on, y'all, put on your weirdest thinking caps or quaff a few pints (Imperial measure at that!) and send me something!

On the way...let me know if it went astray!

Thanks, Haberdasher! I'll give the rest of you until Thursday before posting, so if you're gonna play, please send me something odd, strange, queer, macabre, outlandish, or whatever...

Odd and queer, did you say? Reminds me of my old Aunt Tillie, who was odd and queer but not peculiar.

Also she was irritable and peevish but never angry.

Anyone know why?

(Just remember that in this type of game you NEVER state the reason outright, you simply demonstrate your knowledge by giving additional examples, until everybody has had a chance to solve it.)

PS She was silly, even foolish, but not capricious. She loved Summer and Fall, hated Winter and Spring...etc, etc.

No idea, but then this is Hab; he always has me confused!

re: Tillie Williams

(You don't have to _know_ to post; form a hypothesis, then post an illustration of it for confirmation.)

Oh yes: She loved Roosevelt, despised Truman.
Had no use for Kukla or Fran but was a great fan of Ollie.

Loved strawberries but hated bananas?

Enjoyed dressage but had no time for showjumping...

Edited because Cat is a divvy - and tired, in my defence! - and misread the post [slinks away quietly].

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I reckon she loved bookkeeping but hated math.

...liked intellectuals but not smart people...

Cat - check your PM !

Teeth certainly, but not incisors or cuspids or bicuspids or molars or ...

Mussels yes; muscles no.

Sufficient's okay but not enough.

She liked to be called Tillie, not Matilda.

She played with balls but never with jacks. She liked dolls and books, but television held no charm for her.

She ate with a spoon, but shunned her fork. Eggs were a delight, pudding every night, but steak was never on her plate.

She adores snogging / kissing, but isn't too keen on fondling or sex.

Tillie says you're successful! Good! No, excellent! But not great, of course. She's disappointed. She feels that you understood it fully, but not completely. I disagree. I think she's...not exactly daft, but prolly a bit loopy.

Meanwhle, back at the ranch...

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...I'll give the rest of you until Thursday before posting, so if you're gonna play, please send me something odd, strange, queer, macabre, outlandish, or whatever...

It is now Thursday and our digression has matured.

Time to return to SHILTRON ?

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Meanwhle, back at the ranch...

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Time to return to SHILTRON ?

So "tis! Here are the daffynitions - and the real one!

1. An old measurement, no longer in use, equivalent to around a quarter of a litre.

2. A Victorian patent electrical device supposed to promote good health by the application of electrical fields. Also called "electrical accupuncture."

3. An old six-pronged vacuum tube ("valve" in Britain) with one cathode, one anode, three grids, and one common.

4. The deposit that forms at the base of a gravel pit.

5. A circular formation of infantry, armed with very long lances, designed to thwart a cavalry charge.

6. A machine that makes coins.

7. An American corporation purported to be in the energy business but whose real function is to push stockholders toward early bankruptcy.

8. An apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in all directions.

9. A groove cut in a shield in which the lance was rested during medieval jousting tournaments.

10. A term for the electronic sales pitches employed by some telemarketing firms, sent by a computer to automatically dialed numbers.

Well, you've got quite a selection this time! Post your guesses!

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I'll do a Brubeck and Take Five. Although ten is tempting and one makes sense, but...

Make mine ... nine.

~~~ jerry

I'll try 4.

9 please

I'll go for 2, having no idea.

I'm tempted by nine but that's too popular, so instead I'll favor the underdog and take EIGHT. Gyroscopes of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your gimbals.

I'll vote for 3. I have no idea why - just to be different?

Oh, well...I will try 5, but I have no idea either.

And arnie...?

5 for me, too.

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1. An old measurement, no longer in use, equivalent to around a quarter of a litre.

Cat supplied it; didn't have any takers, alas.

2. A Victorian patent electrical device supposed to promote good health by the application of electrical fields. Also called "electrical accupuncture."

Bob Hale's. Again, no takers.

3. An old six-pronged vacuum tube ("valve" in Britain) with one cathode, one anode, three grids, and one common.

Haber dashed this one off; snared Sunflower.



4. The deposit that forms at the base of a gravel pit.

Kalleh's mind was on the rocks when she fooled Caterwauler.

5. A circular formation of infantry, armed with very long lances, designed to thwart a cavalry charge.

This is the mostly correct definition. I did further research and found that shiltrons weren't always circular. Made famous in the late 1200s-early 1300s by such Scots as Wallace and Robert the Bruce Jo, Kalleh, and, of course arnie got the point. Oh, I realised my error and corrected it a bit late: I had originally written "calvary charge!" Nobody getting off crosses and running down hills with spears!

6. A machine that makes coins.

Caterwauler's, but nobody bought it.

7. An American corporation purported to be in the energy business but whose real function is to push stockholders toward early bankruptcy.

Jerry presented this prospectus, but swindled no-one!

8. An apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in all directions.

Sunflower's gyrations caught Haberdasher's eye. (You've got good taste, Hab!)

9. A groove cut in a shield in which the lance was rested during medieval jousting tournaments.

Arnie charged into battle with this one and speared Jerry and Bob. (Shish-ke-Bob?)

10. A term for the electronic sales pitches employed by some telemarketing firms, sent by a computer to automatically dialed numbers.

Jo's sales pitch, and nobody bought it.

It's clear that arnie came out well ahead here, as he fooled two of us, and KNEW the right one. I had thought that other Brits might know it. Well, they all do now!

Who's next? How about a new player?

I did have a taker - I fooled cat.

So you did, Bob - SORRY!!! Uh, not sorry that you fooled Cat; sorry that I can't keep things in order!

Oh, Asa, you are only human like the rest of us. Recently I forgot Hab's whole daffynition!

How in the world does arnie manage to fool so many people, I wonder. There must be a real knack to that.

Who would like to be next? Any takers?

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Recently I forgot Hab's whole daffynition!

No chance of that this time! How can you forget a man with six prongs!

...or, as the American pedestrian yelled at the driver of the lorry hurtling off after a near-miss, "What's the matter with you? Haven't you got a horn? "

I'm told his British companion nearly doubled-up with laughter.

Linlguistically consistent, or urban myth Eastpondian style?