Round 3169 time to vote!

[Shani Naylor]

We have a grand total of a baker's dozen definitions for our word BANG-A-BONK.

Please vote for two by the deadline.

1.       Slang reference to frequent judicial injunctions against creators of arcade games that attempt success by imitation but violate copyright infringement.

2.       Nickname for street tramways, from the sound made by the early electric tramcars.

3.       An informal name for the Great Skua, _Stercorarius skua_, from its habit of attacking intruders into its territory in the nesting season.

4.       To hit one's head in frustration.

5.       An old and unreliable bus [portmanteau word, from banger ‘old motor vehicle’ + char-à-banc ‘motor coach’]

6.       (Aussie slang) A car in poor running order; a jalopy; a junker.

7.       [Pidgin] goods and supplies airdropped in Melanesia during World War II, which were later appropriated by the natives and led to the arising of so-called "cargo cults".

8.       Astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today—as if you’d spent years bouncing down a Plinko pegboard, passing through a million harmless decision points, any one of which might’ve changed everything—which makes your long and winding path feel fated from the start, yet so unlikely as to be virtually impossible.

9.       Assuming superiority, haughty.

10.   A quick guns game that's a mixture of taking in the information around you and taking quick actions based on your cut to take down the other players you think are a threat. Many games like it have come along but it remains the gold standard in its area.

11.   To lie lazily on a bank.

12.   A children's game in which players throw rocks at a tree or other target, taking a step back at each turn; players who miss drop out until only one is left. 

13.   [Papua] a shrunken head.

The deadline is 9am Thursday, 27 May 2021 my time (NZDT) or:

Los Angeles                                       Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 2pm

New York, USA                                  Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 5pm

London, United Kingdom                Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 10pm     

Paris, France                                      Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 11pm

 

(please check these times and adjust accordingly)

 

New players always welcome! 

[Tim Lodge]

There are some great creations here, but I'll keep it simple with 4 and 11.

           4.       To hit one's head in frustration.

          11.   To lie lazily on a bank.

--  Tim L

[Johnb - co.uk]

I am taken with the untruth of #11 and #2, #5, #7 and #12 are attractive too - aargh, decisions!

Pin time! I will cast my votes for #7 and #12 please

JohnnyB

PS a 'bakers dozen' has been upgraded (or downgraded) with the advent of decimalisation... it is one of those cases where the punter misses out by 2 items and not just 1 - a dozen is now 10 and therefore a baker's dozen is 11

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[Tim B]

6 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Paul Keating]

Maybe it’s because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, but #8 gave me a weird sense of unreality, almost as much as reading a def of Fernando’s I came across lately, which was an ad for a Basque magazine ... in Basque. #1 left me wondering inconclusively for quite a while about how one goes about violating an infringement. And rolling the verbs, #4 and #11, around my mouth, I found I couldn't decide what the present participle would be: would one say stop banging-a-bonk! or stop bang-a-bonking!?

In the end, one vote had to go to one of the three noisy vehicles, #2, #5 and #6,  and one of the remaining games, #10 and #12.

I vote for #2 and for the number that John says can't possibly exist, since there isn't a #12 in his metric baker's dozen.

P

Shani Naylor

Tuesday 25 May 2021 11:17

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[Judy Madnick]

1.       Slang reference to frequent judicial injunctions against creators of arcade games that attempt success by imitation but violate copyright infringement.

    and

12.   A children's game in which players throw rocks at a tree or other target, taking a step back at each turn; players who miss drop out until only one is left. 
 

Judy Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 11 and 12.

[Debbie Embler]

I hear Rod Serling's voice when I read #8 so I'm voting for it. Add in #10 for effort as well.

8.       Astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today—as if you’d spent years bouncing down a Plinko pegboard, passing through a million harmless decision points, any one of which might’ve changed everything—which makes your long and winding path feel fated from the start, yet so unlikely as to be virtually impossible.

10.   A quick guns game that's a mixture of taking in the information around you and taking quick actions based on your cut to take down the other players you think are a threat. Many games like it have come along but it remains the gold standard in its area.

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I'll go with 11 and 12.

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[Ryan McGill]

I like these definitions quite a lot. Seems to be a reasonable amount of agreement that it's of South Pacific origin. Too bad I haven't seen that show. And I rather prefer more modern musicals.

6 and 12, in defiance of the metric dozen.

[Fein, Deborah]

2 and 6. 

love the cargo cult - when one of my kids was in the high school orchestra, she used to say that the tuning was cargo cult tuning.

Deb

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[Ryan McGill]

What did cargo cult tuning mean?

[Paul Keating]

Sounds like a dismissive reference to the tuning of gamelan orchestras.

Other cultures are equally dismissive of the equal temperament of which the 20th-century West was so proud.

P

[France International/Mike Shefler]

There was a time I really enjoyed Harry Partch's music with its 43-tone scale and weird home-made instruments.

--Mike

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[Ryan McGill]

Fair, but neither of those would be at home in a high school orchestra.

[Tony Abell]

I'll toss my votes, prior to taking a step back, at 2 and 7:

> 2. Nickname for street tramways, from the sound made by the early
> electric tramcars.

[nancygoat]

7 and 12 for me, too.

Nancy

[Daniel B Widdis]

4 describes me trying to pick a second def.  Perhaps 2.

 

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[amal...@comcast.net]

#8 resonates with me – but is not very plausible as a definition, so I’ll go elsewhere. I’ll avoid the South Pacific (cue up Some Enchanted Evening), and vote for #4 and #9.

Alan

 

 

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We have a grand total of a baker's dozen definitions for our word BANG-A-BONK.

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[Efrem G Mallach]

#5 is vaguely plausible, and whoever wrote #8 deserves another point. (Is a Plinko pegboard anything like a Pachinko machine?)

Efrem

On May 25, 2021, at 5:17 AM, Shani Naylor <shani....@gmail.com> wrote:

We have a grand total of a baker's dozen definitions for our word BANG-A-BONK.

Please vote for two by the deadline.

5.       An old and unreliable bus [portmanteau word, from banger ‘old motor vehicle’ + char-à-banc ‘motor coach’]

[Ryan McGill]

Efrem,

Very much so. But instead of small balls, Plinko uses a disc quite nearly as wide as the gap between the pegs, which are arranged in equilateral triangles across the entire playable surface. It appears to be a variant of pachinko produced for The Price Is Right, and has only grown in popularity from there. It's gone carnival and international, is available as a home board game, and looks to be more well-known than pachinko at this point.

Rx.

[Daniel B Widdis]

For the record, I received the point for #8 but the definition itself was copied from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for the word aftersome.

 

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