Round 3252: Vote for SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS

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Daniel B Widdis

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May 16, 2022, 9:42:58 PM5/16/22
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Each extension collected one additional submission, giving you all a total of ten candidates for your votes.

 

I’ll set the voting deadline in 38 hours at 8 am PDT on Wednesday, May 17.  That’s 11am EDT, 4 pm BST at the Greenwich Meridian and elsewhere in the UK, 5pm CEST at la Méridienne de France and in most of Europe, and in the wee hours of Thursday morning at 1 am AEST in Melbourne and 3 am NZST in Auckland. 

 

*** SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS ***

 

1. [Mil. slang] Indentations in a cannonball to increase its range by creating a thin layer of turbulence that reduces drag. (Origin unk., prob. 19c. UK)

 

2. Small pits or depressions typical of the area around Stratford-on-Avon and now thought to be the result of flint extraction in Neolithic times.

 

3. Doggerel verse, based on Shakespearean sonnets, popular in 19th century vaudeville.

 

4. the central themes of Shakespeare's writings.

 

5. Bad poetry.

 

6. A type of backless sandal.

 

7. A long-pointed, turned-down collar

 

8. Shakespeare's spelling of nave - hence the nave of a church

 

9. Believed to be the orb of all conscious inspiration and artistic expression.

 

10. common Shakespeare misquotes, e.g., "gilding the lily" (actual quote: "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily...")

 

 

Judy Madnick

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May 16, 2022, 10:41:04 PM5/16/22
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Read 'em all and have no clue.
So I'll go with 1 and 2.

(I like the rhyme!)

Judy Madnick 

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Daniel B Widdis

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May 16, 2022, 10:43:48 PM5/16/22
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But you could have done that in iambic pentameter:

 

I read ‘em all and still I have no clue.

So I’ll just go with votes for 1 and 2.

Efrem G Mallach

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May 16, 2022, 10:58:00 PM5/16/22
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I read through them all.
Thinking, I had no idea.
So I'll vote 1 - 2.

(That's my attempt at haiku, NOT my votes. Votes will come later, probably tomorrow.)

Efrem

Tim B

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May 17, 2022, 4:30:27 AM5/17/22
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3 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

Paul Keating

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May 17, 2022, 5:24:53 AM5/17/22
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3 & 10 for me too. 


John Barrs

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May 17, 2022, 6:34:37 AM5/17/22
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#6 and #7 for no reason

JohnnyB

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Tim Lodge

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May 17, 2022, 7:43:05 AM5/17/22
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For no logical reason, 1 and 7, please.


          1. [Mil. slang] Indentations in a cannonball to increase its range by creating a thin layer of turbulence that reduces drag. (Origin unk., prob. 19c. UK)

          7. A long-pointed, turned-down collar

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Judy Madnick

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May 17, 2022, 9:12:31 AM5/17/22
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Nothing wrong with a quatrain. :-)
 
Judy

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From: "Daniel B Widdis" <wid...@dixonary.net>
Date: 5/16/2022 10:43:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3252: Vote for SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS

But you could have done that in iambic pentameter:

 

I read ‘em all and still I have no clue.

So I’ll just go with votes for 1 and 2.

 

From: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Judy Madnick <jmad...@gmail.com>
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Date: Monday, May 16, 2022 at 7:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3252: Vote for SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS

 

Read 'em all and have no clue.

So I'll go with 1 and 2.

 

(I like the rhyme!)

Judy Madnick 

 

On Mon, May 16, 2022, 9:42 PM Daniel B Widdis <wid...@dixonary.net> wrote:

Each extension collected one additional submission, giving you all a total of ten candidates for your votes.

 

I’ll set the voting deadline in 38 hours at 8 am PDT on Wednesday, May 17.  That’s 11am EDT, 4 pm BST at the Greenwich Meridian and elsewhere in the UK, 5pm CEST at la Méridienne de France and in most of Europe, and in the wee hours of Thursday morning at 1 am AEST in Melbourne and 3 am NZST in Auckland. 

 

*** SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS ***

 

1. [Mil. slang] Indentations in a cannonball to increase its range by creating a thin layer of turbulence that reduces drag. (Origin unk., prob. 19c. UK)

 

2. Small pits or depressions typical of the area around Stratford-on-Avon and now thought to be the result of flint extraction in Neolithic times.

 

3. Doggerel verse, based on Shakespearean sonnets, popular in 19th century vaudeville.

 

4. the central themes of Shakespeare's writings.

 

5. Bad poetry.

 

6. A type of backless sandal.

 

7. A long-pointed, turned-down collar

 

8. Shakespeare's spelling of nave - hence the nave of a church

 

9. Believed to be the orb of all conscious inspiration and artistic expression.

 

10. common Shakespeare misquotes, e.g., "gilding the lily" (actual quote: "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily...")

 

 

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Efrem G Mallach

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May 17, 2022, 9:14:30 AM5/17/22
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Isn't a quatrain something that closely resembles a string of railroad cars behind a locomotive?

Efrem

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May 17, 2022, 9:43:40 AM5/17/22
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6 and 7 because they have nothing to do with Shakespeare.
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Chowie

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May 17, 2022, 9:57:25 AM5/17/22
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5 and 7 ....I guess, therefore I am. 

On Mon, May 16, 2022, 9:42 PM Daniel B Widdis <wid...@dixonary.net> wrote:
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Judy Madnick

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May 17, 2022, 11:36:55 AM5/17/22
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🙄  

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From: "Efrem G Mallach" <efrem....@gmail.com>
Date: 5/17/2022 9:14:26 AM
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Isn't a quatrain something that closely resembles a string of railroad cars behind a locomotive?

Efrem

On May 17, 2022, at 9:12 AM, Judy Madnick <jmad...@gmail.com> wrote:

Nothing wrong with a quatrain. :-)
 
Judy

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From: "Daniel B Widdis" <wid...@dixonary.net>
Date: 5/16/2022 10:43:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3252: Vote for SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS

But you could have done that in iambic pentameter:

 

I read ‘em all and still I have no clue.

So I’ll just go with votes for 1 and 2.

 

From: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Judy Madnick <jmad...@gmail.com>
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Date: Monday, May 16, 2022 at 7:41 PM
To: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3252: Vote for SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS

 

Read 'em all and have no clue.

So I'll go with 1 and 2.

 

(I like the rhyme!)

Judy Madnick 

 

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Efrem G Mallach

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May 17, 2022, 3:01:56 PM5/17/22
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2 and 3 for me. No reasons. Not just that I'm not posting them; I don't have any.

Efrem

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On May 16, 2022, at 9:42 PM, Daniel B Widdis <wid...@dixonary.net> wrote:

Each extension collected one additional submission, giving you all a total of ten candidates for your votes.
 
I’ll set the voting deadline in 38 hours at 8 am PDT on Wednesday, May 17.  That’s 11am EDT, 4 pm BST at the Greenwich Meridian and elsewhere in the UK, 5pm CEST at la Méridienne de France and in most of Europe, and in the wee hours of Thursday morning at 1 am AEST in Melbourne and 3 am NZST in Auckland.  
 
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Daniel B Widdis

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May 17, 2022, 5:47:21 PM5/17/22
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I think it’s this:  https://xkcd.com/2591/

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On May 17, 2022, at 6:14 AM, Efrem G Mallach <efrem....@gmail.com> wrote:

Isn't a quatrain something that closely resembles a string of railroad cars behind a locomotive?

Efrem G Mallach

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May 17, 2022, 6:27:37 PM5/17/22
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Sounds like a duck. Does it walk like a duck? If it does, a qua is a duck. And a qua vita is an intoxicant. So a qua qua vita is a drunk duck. 

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Tony Abell

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May 17, 2022, 10:22:50 PM5/17/22
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I'll avoid Shakespeare-related choices and take 6 and 7:
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