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I do remember winning around with some really long definition about railroad tracks merging, complete with an ASCII illustration. I don’t remember the round but I’m sure it’s in the archives somewhere.
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IIRC I think I created the longest def using the stream-of-consciousness program babble. I can't find the def and I don't remember the round, though. As I recall, it did not win the round.
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Mike,
You did win the deal in Round 615 with this submission, weighing in at 615 characters, most of them whitespace:
21. the Roumanian one-stringed balalaika (see illus.)
Submitter: Shefler Votes: 3 & 5 0 + 8 = 8<<Winnah!
Voted for by: Bourne; Widdis; Lodge; Dyer; Cunningham; Savage; Crom;
Murray
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Vavasor
From: Paul Keating <pjake...@gmail.com> on behalf of Paul Keating <dixo...@boargules.com>
Reply-To: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 9:23 AM
To: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>
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And I took your illustration as inspiration to craft this 893-character beauty which won Round 981.
15. a tackle consisting of two standing _______________
single blocks, two running single _|_ _|_
blocks, a fall, and a runner, so / | \ / | \
arranged that the fall is rove ( * ) ( * )
through one running block, to which \___/| |\___/|
one end of the runner is attached, \ | | |
is then rove through one standing __\ | | /
block, and is finally attached to \ / \ | | |
the other running block, which \( * )\ / /
supports the load and to which the \_\_/ _H_ |
other end of the runner is attached \ / Y \ /
after being rove through both it and ( * )
the other standing block: gives a \_|_/
mechanical advantage of six, neglecting |###|
friction. (See Illus.) |###|
Submitter: Widdis Votes: 11 & 20 0 + 5 = 5 ** !
Voted for by: Dyer; Pittman; Wetzstein; Jordan; Savage
So from the standpoint of number of characters needed to store these definitions in a database, 1128 characters may be a record, at least in my brief search.
However, based on the fact that “a picture paints a thousand words,” and that the average word length in the English language is 4.7 characters, the two definitions cited had in excess of 5000 characters and each won their respective rounds.
So perhaps size does matter.
On Jul 17, 2022, at 2:48 AM, Paul Keating <dixo...@boargules.com> wrote:
It was the Ferd's only deal.I had forgotten about those illustrated defs. Entertaining, but a giveaway that the def was fake: I can't imagine finding ascii art in a trustworthy source. But now that is no longer a constraint. I think conjuring up a def with an illustration might be a worthy challenge the next time I deal.P
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