This is the newest word to get your creative daffynition juices going, so drop me a PM with a fanciful daffynition!

...my entry's in...

...as is mine...

Only three daffynitions. Is this game dead?

I sent one, didn't I?

You've got it, Asa.

1. a musical instrument, much like an autoharp, that plays simple chords

Caterwauller wasn't instrumental in fooling anyone this time.

2. A bird in the Trionididae family; with white plummage; plump and dove-like, and believed to be similar to the ancestors of modern gulls and terns.

Kalleh feathered friend fooled CW.

3. Botany: Any of several species of epiphytic plants the flowers of which have three stamens.

I tossed this one in just to fool Saranita.

4. An underwater city in a James Blish sci-fi novel of the 50s; engaged in an epic struggle with neighbor Atlantis, to their mutual annihilation.

Haberdasher didn't fool anyone with this one, but was awfully close to the real dafinition.

5. A small salamander.

Arnie slithered into Kaleh's and Hab's mind and fooled 'em both!

6. A mythical lake near the Mediterranian coast of Libya.

What's new - arnie and jo knew it!

7. A variety of the phalaenopsis orchid species, named for its unusual sepal structure, originally cultivated in Malaysia.

Saranita's entry sounded soooo nice - and a good bit like mine, too. No takers, though. BTW, who knows the origin or the word, "orchid?"

Saranita, how about taking a turn as the bluffmistress?

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I'll choose Dave Brubeck, and Take Five...

Three (Dog Night) for me.

# 5, please.

I'll guess #2 . . .

If you are still taking votes, mine is for #6

I'll go for six, too.

"What's new?" is right! Geez, Arnie and Jo, you could at least humor us sometimes.
Who's up next?

Huh?

I didn't even know the answers had been posted! If you are going to edit the original list to show the answers, at least make a post to say you've done that, so it appears in the list of new posts!

Sorry, arnie. I'm not the brightest bulb here.

Asa, shame on you, fooling me that way! It worked, though. I figured it was much too unlikely that another fake definition so similar to mine would have been coincidentally concocted, which must have been exactly what you thought I'd think! All right, then. I'll take a shot at this, although I suspect a word that I consider obscure is probably in the everyday conversation of most of the people here.

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Sorry, arnie. I'm not the brightest bulb here.

Poppycock...and you know it, Asa. You are one of our brightest people here...just way too modest.

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Poppycock...and you know it, Asa. You are one of our brightest people here...just way too modest.

Oh? With arnie and saranita mad at me? Dumkopf - that's me. (And I may even have spelt it wrongfully!)

Anyhow, saranita, do go ahead and post one!

Ass-a

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Oh? With arnie and saranita mad at me?

Perhaps we should start a thread, discussing the definition of mad.

Neither was mad, I am sure of that.

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
... BTW, who knows the origin or the word, "orchid?"

You mean it's not a coincidence that the Greek word for testicle is "orchis" ?

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You mean it's not a coincidence that the Greek word for testicle is "orchis" ?

No. it's not a coincidence...

I'd be nuts to say no! Which makes me wonder about killer whales, AKA orcas.

Silly Asa...silly, silly man! If I were "mad" at you, would I have complied with your request?
Now submit your daffynition already before I get mad!

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Neither was mad, I am sure of that.

I think they're both a little mad, in the sense that they're crazy . . . or did we already crack that nut?

Me? Crazy? Surely you meant arnie and Asa....

OHHHHHHH, how dare you besmirch arnie's character like that!?!?

As for me, welllllll........

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or did we already crack that nut?

Which nut do you mean? Me, Asa, or Saranita?

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Oh? With arnie and saranita mad at me?

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I think they're both a little mad, in the sense that they're crazy . . . or did we already crack that nut?

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Which nut do you mean? Me, Asa, or Saranita?

If Caterwauller's "they're" refers to Asa's statement about who he thought was "mad" at him, it looks like Caterwauller means that arnie and saranita are crazy.

We may have to call in a grammarian on this one.

But I know I'm not crazy. Tom Cruise told me so.

Well, if Tom Cruise says so - we know it must be true! Being a great actor, he must certainly know more than you and I.

I think you are ALL crazy - so there!

And I can say that because I have 41 years of experience living with a crazy person. I see her in the mirror every now and then.

Of course they're crazy. Hush! They sing choruses in public. That's mad enough, I think.

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Originally posted by haberdasher:
Of course they're crazy. Hush! They sing choruses in public. That's mad enough, I think.

What about all those people who walk around looking terribly busy and important, while holding one hand to an ear and talking to themselves? I think craziness is communicable!

I don't stop at just singing choruses . . . I sing verses in public, too!

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Originally posted by Caterwauller:
I don't stop at just singing choruses . . . I sing verses in public, too!

The phrase about madness being shown by singing choruses in public is from Ruddigore.

As to the other, I guess we're just going from mad to verse...

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As to the other, I guess we're just going from mad to verse...

Ah, yes, mad as a hatter.

Well, of course. "In this size, 10/6." It was really mercury poisoning, you know.