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October 10, 2005, 19:48
<Asa Lovejoy>Bluffing Game nimgimmer
Nimgimmer is the word in play. Send me PMs (NOT PMS!) with your daffynitions!
October 10, 2005, 20:08
jomine daffynition is on the way via PM
October 13, 2005, 17:12
haberdasherme too
October 13, 2005, 18:23
jerry thomasnimgimmer ... device for measuring the quality of
steel with carbon content an essential criterion
(Not for publication ... my parents are in Iron & Steel.
She irons; he steels.)
October 13, 2005, 18:27
haberdasherOctober 13, 2005, 19:21
<Asa Lovejoy>So far I have Hab, arnie, Kalleh, Jerry, and Jo. Keep them daffynitions coming in!
October 14, 2005, 18:56
jerry thomasI quit.
quote:
R. Butler to S. O'Hara: Frankly, My Dear, I don't give a nimgimmer.
October 15, 2005, 08:07
CaterwaullerHehehe - now now, everyone makes mistakes, old man. Don't get your nims in a gimmer.
*******
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~Dalai Lama
October 15, 2005, 10:22
<Asa Lovejoy>I doubt there are many of us who haven't gotten PMs and public messages confused! It's such fun when politicians do it!
Anyhow, Jerry, I'm waiting for another one from you! I just got one from Bob Hale, so when you send in yours, I'll publish them.
October 15, 2005, 12:22
jerry thomasI'm sitting out for this episode of the Bluffing Game Gala, Asa. Here is my last word on nimgimmer....
a dim-witted gimmer named Nim
had carved his nickname down from Names
just as you might do, too,
if this happened to you
and they said your real name was James.
October 15, 2005, 15:56
<Asa Lovejoy>James? Didn't he write the bible or sumpthin?
October 16, 2005, 04:58
CaterwaullerDid I already send one? I can't dismember.
*******
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~Dalai Lama
October 16, 2005, 08:50
<Asa Lovejoy>Yes, CW, you did, but since Jerry's sitting this one out, you can submit two! Kinda like the alter-ego persona in the comic strip, "Rose is Rose." Do a really nasty one this time!
October 16, 2005, 19:48
<Asa Lovejoy>Daffynitions - and the real one too!
1. A hammer used by the Norse during the Viking Age for executions, specifically of persons found guilty of clan members or slaves.
2 A small sailboat used in Scandanavia for travelling between the fjords.
3. A person who gives compliments that are really divsive in nature.
4. One who can't decide, whether deliberately or inadvertently, (first takes away, then gives); a waffler.
5. A weak light, as from a taper.
6. A physician or surgeon, particularly those who cure the venereal disease.
7.
intr. To act like a dolt, to play the fool.
8. A lashing that fastens a bowsprit to the stem of a ship.
9. A hand tool used by southern carpenters during the Civil War era to create the cross bars for split rail fences.
10. Australian slang for one who spreads disease.
OK, lads and lassies, join arnie in picking the real one!
October 16, 2005, 20:58
tinmanSounds like a nautical term to me. I'll pick 2.
Tinman
October 17, 2005, 00:07
BobHale4 and 6 sound good so let's say, oh, 6
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 17, 2005, 01:56
CaterwaullerI think 10 sounds like a word Asa would post . . . but there are so many nautical things, I wonder if it really is some sort of boat-ish word . . . but then again 7 is really good, and so much like me . . . hmm . . . oh, wait . . . guess I better guess #4.
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~Dalai Lama
October 17, 2005, 10:49
arnieI go for 6.
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.
October 17, 2005, 11:26
joI will choose number six.
For those whom syphyllus can fix,
Are a rare breed of docs,
Treating rashes and sex pox
With nary a "Tut" or a "Tisk."
Yes, I know the rhyme and rhythm are strained. It's hard to be creative when you're old.
October 17, 2005, 19:47
KallehI just
know I should take 6, but in all fairness I had already picked 3. So I'll go with 3.
October 17, 2005, 20:27
SunflowerI like #2.
October 19, 2005, 18:22
<Asa Lovejoy>Here are the results:
quote:
1. A hammer used by the Norse during the Viking Age for executions, specifically of persons found guilty of clan members or slaves.
Jo. I mis-transcribed it and omitted "murder of" after guilty. So, go ahead, Jo, smite me!
2: Bob Hale wanted you all to row your way through the fjords, and Tinman and Sunflower took him up on his offer.
3. Caterwauler gave us this one and snared Kalleh with it.
4. Haberdasher couldn't decide on a daffynition, so he wrote this one. He snared Caterwauller with it.
5. Arnie's ofering.
6. The real one. I expected arnie, who knows every word ever invented, and Haberdasher to know it, but Bob Hale and Jo!?!? Care to explain how you came to know it, you two?
7. Kalleh offered this one.
8. Sunflower's daffynition.
9. Jo's second submission after I screwed up her first one.
10. One I tossed in just to add to the confusion.
2 A small sailboat used in Scandanavia for travelling between the fjords.
3. A person who gives compliments that are really divsive in nature.
4. One who can't decide, whether deliberately or inadvertently, (first takes away, then gives); a waffler.
5. A weak light, as from a taper.
6. A physician or surgeon, particularly those who cure the venereal disease.
7.
intr. To act like a dolt, to play the fool.
8. A lashing that fastens a bowsprit to the stem of a ship.
9. A hand tool used by southern carpenters during the Civil War era to create the cross bars for split rail fences.
10. Australian slang for one who spreads disease.
OK, lads and lassies, join arnie in picking the real one!
October 19, 2005, 18:40
joHey, Asa! I think I've missed maybe one of these in the time I've been playing the game. I have a rather large vocabulary, just like Arnie. I know the word because I have a very very high tournament scrabble rating under my former name, and I had to study lots of words to get it. Being the wonk that I am, I studied definitions as well as spelling. I used to read the OED for fun. The only reason I don't now is because I don't have access to one.
October 19, 2005, 21:47
KallehWhat happened to Hab's guess?
Can't say that I've heard of this word, even though it apparently is a medical word. However, I don't feel too bad. It wasn't in Onelook, and in OED, there is this definition:
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew, Nim-gimmer, a Doctor, Surgeon, or Apothecary, or any one that cures a Clap or the Pox.October 20, 2005, 11:13
BobHaleI'm not sure. the definition just rang a bell with me. I think I might have seen it on a page-a-day calendar of weird words some time.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 20, 2005, 14:33
arnieI've no idea how or even if I actually knew. It seemed right somehow, but I can't say why.
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.
October 20, 2005, 17:52
<Asa Lovejoy>Bob, it was on a calendar that I found it.
