Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Wordplay    Bluffing Game: Speculum
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Bluffing Game: Speculum Login/Join
 
Member
posted
Nary a woman in first world countries doesn't know what a speculum is - but that's not all it is. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to discern the other two definitions!

Send me two "daffynitions" for what you think a speculum might be. No looking it up!


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
Thanks for starting the Bluffing game again! Mine's in!
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I have entries from Kalleh, Bob, and Proofreader so far. I need a bunch more.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of BobHale
posted Hide Post
And while you're answering Geoff's request send me more Baiyin Limericks. So far I have three from two people.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
Posts: 9421 | Location: EnglandReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I've submitted a pair of feeble efforts, Bob. Now, would a half dozen people please send me a pair of daffynitions?


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of arnie
posted Hide Post
I've sent a couple. Sorry I'm late - I just noticed the new game.


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.
 
Posts: 10940 | Location: LondonReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I have five submissions of daffynitions so far. May I have a couple more participants? Or particiskirts - either will suffice!


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I still don't have sufficient participation to post the daffynitions and the real ones. I will be out of town, returning on January 14th. By then I hope a few more of you wil participate.

Remember, TWO daffynitions this time.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
Geoff, I'll try to keep this thread visible while you're gone.
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I give up! Not enough participation! Oh, well, here are the daffynitions I've gotten, plus one of my own, and the correct ones:

1a: Pincers used to measure the size of knitting needles in millimeters

1b: A long metal rod used to clean deep water oil wells


2a: Roman Catholic ritual tool; flat, handled,gold or gold-plated; held by priest under communicant's chin while delivering host

2b: (obs.) Opinion, reading; originally, sage's interpretation of sybillic utterance



3a: A Roman weapon used by gladiators, resembling a trident, but with four tines.

3b: The classification in astronomy of stars by their reflectivity.


4a: A hose barb for a Bunsen Burner.

4b: An asterism introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603.


5a: A Victorian magic lantern show

5b: The airborne seeds of the sycamore tree


6a: The driving force of a very small Swiss clock

6b: A minute piece of any grainy material


7a: Alloy of copper and tin used to make mirrors

7b: Official publication of The Medieval Academy


8a: The iridescent feathers on some bird wings.

8b: obs.A quicksilver emulsion used to treat syphilis.


Only one pair is correct, although some may contain one correct definition. Pick the one that has TWO correct definitions!


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
<Proofreader>
posted
If you use a speculum, are you speculating?

I'll speculate and take two.
 
Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Etymologically, yes.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of bethree5
posted Hide Post
I'll try 8
 
Posts: 2605 | Location: As they say at 101.5FM: Not New York... Not Philadelphia... PROUD TO BE NEW JERSEY!Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Caterwauller
posted Hide Post
I like 5.


*******
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~Dalai Lama
 
Posts: 5149 | Location: Columbus, OhioReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of BobHale
posted Hide Post
Let's try 3


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
Posts: 9421 | Location: EnglandReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
2
 
Posts: 2878 | Location: Shoreline, WA, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of arnie
posted Hide Post
8 for me, please.


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.
 
Posts: 10940 | Location: LondonReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I'm gonna have to give 2ab a narrow edge over 3ab. Keenly aware, though, how often if turns out misguided to gainsay arnie...
 
Posts: 6266 | Location: Worcester, MA, USReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
3

And you have a lot of good entries, Geoff. I don't know why you are complaining!
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
quote:
I don't know why you are complaining!

Because I'm a grouch! Big Grin


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Any more replies?


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
Can I assume that arnie, once again, got it right?
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
quote:


1a: Pincers used to measure the size of knitting needles in millimeters

1b: A long metal rod used to clean deep water oil wells

This was Caterwauller's pair.


2a: Roman Catholic ritual tool; flat, handled,gold or gold-plated; held by priest under communicant's chin while delivering host

2b: (obs.) Opinion, reading; originally, sage's interpretation of sybillic utterance

Bethree5's effort, proving that Haberdasher isn't Catholic. ;-)



3a: A Roman weapon used by gladiators, resembling a trident, but with four tines.

3b: The classification in astronomy of stars by their reflectivity.

arnie submitted this scholarly-sounding pair, dispatching Kalleh and Bob


4a: A hose barb for a Bunsen Burner.

4b: An asterism introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603.

Kalleh's submission, snaring no-one.


5a: A Victorian magic lantern show

5b: The airborne seeds of the sycamore tree

Bob's duo, which CW picked.



6a: The driving force of a very small Swiss clock

6b: A minute piece of any grainy material

Proofreader submitted these, but nobody believed him.


7a: Alloy of copper and tin used to make mirrors

7b: Official publication of The Medieval Academy

These are the real ones.

http://astroprofspage.com/archives/1229


http://medievalacademy.org/speculum/speculum.htm


8a: The iridescent feathers on some bird wings.

8b: obs.A quicksilver emulsion used to treat syphilis.

This one is my own submission, with "a" correct, but "b' fanciful. Arnie liked it!

Nobody got the correct pair, but arnie, as usual, is the winner, having fooled two of us.

Over to you, arnie!




It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Kalleh:
Can I assume that arnie, once again, got it right?

No, but he won anyway! Big Grin


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
How about some commentary on why you chose your selections? All definitions of speculum derive from the Latin word for mirror. So now, please reflect, or shine some light, on your choices.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of BobHale
posted Hide Post
For my part, as ever, I really couldn't say. As far as I know I just made them up at random.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
Posts: 9421 | Location: EnglandReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
I linked "spec," from specere to "viewing" the stars. It sounded good to me!
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Caterwauller
posted Hide Post
I, like Bob, just made mine up at random.


*******
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~Dalai Lama
 
Posts: 5149 | Location: Columbus, OhioReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of arnie
posted Hide Post
quote:
This one is my own submission, with "a" correct, but "b' fanciful.

That's cheating! Mad Somewhere I'd heard of the "feathers" definition, so thought that the second one must be a correct answer as well.

You've come up with three correct definitions, (not including the medical one) whereas in your first post you say
quote:
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to discern the other two definitions!
Confused


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.
 
Posts: 10940 | Location: LondonReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Yes, I made a mistake. Nevertheless you're the victor, having fooled two with your submissions.

I regret the error.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
He also said
quote:
Only one pair is correct, although some may contain one correct definition. Pick the one that has TWO correct definitions!

If one pair has 2 correct definitions and any other pair has 1 correct definition, then there must be at least 3 correct definitions in addition to the medical one, despite Geoff's original statement implying there were only 2 additional definitions.

The OED Online has 5 definitions for speculum, and it doesn't include "Official publication of The Medieval Academy."
 
Posts: 2878 | Location: Shoreline, WA, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by tinman:


The OED Online has 5 definitions for speculum, and it doesn't include "Official publication of The Medieval Academy."

Since the Medieval Academy publication definition isn't in the OED, I shall consider this to be a failed attempt on my part. I regret causing anyone any grief.

Freud is famously quoted as saying, "America is a mistake." Had Freud met me he would have declared, "Geoff is a mistake" as well. I shall go make my mistakes elsewhere.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Geoff:
Since the Medieval Academy publication definition isn't in the OED, I shall consider this to be a failed attempt on my part. I regret causing anyone any grief.

I don't consider this a "failed attempt," and you certainly haven't caused my any grief. I was merely trying to point out that there are often many definitions to a word (some not even found in the OED), and to assume a word has only one definition is folly. The failure of a word to appear in a dictionary in no way invalidates that word. Good job, Geoff.
 
Posts: 2878 | Location: Shoreline, WA, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of bethree5
posted Hide Post
Nonsense Geoff this one was lots of fun, keep at it. I did a.by 'free association' (I believe the thing they hold under your chin is a 'platen', like the typwriter-thingie), and b.by extension of spec/see to 'seer'
 
Posts: 2605 | Location: As they say at 101.5FM: Not New York... Not Philadelphia... PROUD TO BE NEW JERSEY!Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
Agreed, Bethree. You made this game engaging, Geoff!
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of arnie
posted Hide Post
quote:
You made this game engaging, Geoff

Indeed. While I feigned indignation earlier, I wasn't serious; it's only a game, after all. Keep at it!


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.
 
Posts: 10940 | Location: LondonReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Oh... Sorry. I thought you were dead serious.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
Posts: 6168 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Wordplay    Bluffing Game: Speculum

Copyright © 2002-12