Round 3042 SAROS Defs - Vote Now!

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Tim Lodge

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Jan 14, 2020, 5:25:14 PM1/14/20
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Here we have 13 imaginative defs of the word SAROS, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 16th January
        10:00 CET
         4:00 AM EST
         1:00 AM PST
        20:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        22:00 NZDT in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** SAROS***

 1.  a horn shaped pastry.

 2.  a mischievous prank or antic.

 3.  the ancient Egyptian god of farming.

 4.  a medium-dry sherry similar to Amontillado.

 5.  a purple dye of unknown origin used in ancient Greece.

 6.  the 'pitcher' of a pitcher-plant [fr. generic name Sarracenia]

 7.  an area for ceremonial dances outside an ancient Greek temple.

 8.  a common mold, usually rust-colored, with microscopic airborne spores.

 9.  [Lit] A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.

10.  _Ancient History_ The Babylonian name for the number 3600, and hence for a period of 3600 years.

12.  in Hellenism, a supplicatory method which aims to position the supplicant as submissive to and receptive toward the will of their deity, most commonly associated with Athena, Gaia, Hera, Hestia, and Phanes, as well as other deities associated with fertility, domesticity, guidance, and wisdom

13.  a card game in which the players bet on the appearance of a particular rank when two cards are taken from the top of a dealer's pack. If the player's rank appears first, the bet is lost; if it appears second, the bet is won; and if it doesn't appear, the player has the option of changing the wager before the next hand.

Dave Cunningham

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Jan 14, 2020, 6:08:35 PM1/14/20
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1 and 7 so I am sure to be wrong.


Dave


Debbie

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Jan 14, 2020, 6:23:20 PM1/14/20
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12 for effort and #2.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 6:08 PM Dave Cunningham <cunn...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
1 and 7 so I am sure to be wrong.


Dave


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Shani Naylor

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Jan 14, 2020, 6:49:24 PM1/14/20
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It's all Greek to me: 5 & 7.



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Judy Madnick

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Jan 14, 2020, 7:33:54 PM1/14/20
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Food and drink tonight:


1.  a horn shaped pastry.
4.  a medium-dry sherry similar to Amontillado.
 
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Daniel B Widdis

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Jan 14, 2020, 8:45:46 PM1/14/20
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I only count 12 defs.  #11 seems to have gone missing.  And since I don’t see my def, I assume #11 must have been mine. :)

 

I’ll go with the purple dye and rust-colored mold, 5 and 8.

 

 

Efrem G Mallach

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Jan 14, 2020, 9:03:47 PM1/14/20
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I'll fall for 3 and 9, though I can imagine trying to play 13 sometime. 

Efrem

On Jan 14, 2020, at 5:25 PM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

Here we have 13 imaginative defs of the word SAROS, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 16th January
        10:00 CET
         4:00 AM EST
         1:00 AM PST
        20:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        22:00 NZDT in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** SAROS***

 3.  the ancient Egyptian god of farming.

 9.  [Lit] A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.


France International/Mike Shefler

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Jan 14, 2020, 10:30:37 PM1/14/20
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I'll vote for 3 and 10.

nancygoat

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Jan 15, 2020, 1:25:23 AM1/15/20
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I'm going Greek: 5 and 7.

Nancy


Tim Lodge

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Jan 15, 2020, 6:11:28 AM1/15/20
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Tim Bourne has voted by private email for 1 and 8.

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Tim Lodge

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Jan 15, 2020, 6:18:26 AM1/15/20
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Dan

Very sorry, it's all my fault - there's an error in my spreadsheet which I will correct.  You get 2 dealer points.

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Stephen Dixon

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Jan 15, 2020, 9:54:29 AM1/15/20
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No idea...whatsoever. But I will bite for:

#6 - the pitcher

#7 - the Greek dance floor

6 & 7

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Daniel B Widdis

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Jan 15, 2020, 10:46:18 PM1/15/20
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That’s probably 2 more points than I would have received anyway. :)

 

 

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Ryan McGill

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Jan 16, 2020, 12:14:39 AM1/16/20
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Seeing as there's no #11, I'm going to assume it's not just Widdis's definition that's missing. The real definition must be gone as well, because I don't believe any of them.

So once again, I'm voting for the Wyld Stallyns: 6 & 9, dudes.

 6.  the 'pitcher' of a pitcher-plant [fr. generic name Sarracenia]

 9.  [Lit] A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.



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Shani Naylor

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Jan 16, 2020, 12:49:36 AM1/16/20
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I loved Bill & Ted 1



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Tony Abell

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Jan 16, 2020, 1:30:39 AM1/16/20
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I'll try 2 and 10:

> 2. a mischievous prank or antic.

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