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- From: bcs@sc.harris.com (Brian Spollen)
- Subject: PCWC7 ballot
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.145314.18248@sc.harris.com>
- Organization: Harris Electronic Design Automation
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 14:53:14 GMT
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- PCWC 7 Ballot
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- OK, folks, the clues for PCWC 7 are all in. It's time to vote for
- your favorites. (Both clue submitters and non-submitters are allowed
- to vote.) The remaining relevant dates for PCWC 7 are:
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- Tuesday 5 January 23:59 EST Deadline for receipt of PCWC 7 votes
- Wednesday 6 January I'll post an annotated list of the
- best-loved clues for PCWC 7.
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- This post is divided into three parts.
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- 1) a list of all the clues for the word without explanations
- 2) the same list annotated with the author's explanations
- 3) instructions on how to vote, and on the scoring
-
- Brian Spollen (bcs@rama.sc.harris.com)
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- ALL CLUES, WITHOUT EXPLANATIONS
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- 1) Intent to start with incredible scenes that
- feature underwater lovemaking (7)
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- 2) "Wait, sit", I foully sputter, sadly pensive (7)
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- 3) Dairy state, one fourth empty, is pensive (7)
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- 4) Pensive, first wondering, is german wind back? (7)
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- 5) Yearning for swift reorganization with testing group (7)
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- 6) Disoriented wife is consumed with lust and longing (7)
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- 7) "Weeping wistaria" without Battle Song: silly fluff
- lacking really strong music (7)
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- ALL CLUES FOR 'WISTFUL' WITH AUTHORS' EXPLANATIONS
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- 1) Intent to start with incredible scenes that
- feature underwater lovemaking (7)
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- Intent = defn
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- To start = indicates to take the initial
- letters of the remaining words.
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- 2) "Wait, sit", I foully sputter, sadly pensive (7)
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- sputter = alternate: WaIt SiT i FoUlLy;
- sadly wistful = wistful
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- 3) Dairy state, one fourth empty, is pensive (7)
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- "Dairy state" indicates Wisconsin State = wist
- "one fourth empty" indicates three fourths full = ful
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- 4) Pensive, first wondering, is german wind back? (7)
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- definition w is (luft back =) tful
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- 5) Yearning for swift reorganization with testing group (7)
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- def. = SWIFT anag + U.L.
- U.L. is Underwriters Laboratories, whose "UL" mark is
- found on most US appliances).
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- 6) Disoriented wife is consumed with lust and longing (7)
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- Explanation: "Disoriented wife" = WIF (missing E)
- "is consumed with lust" = anagrammed with LUST
- "longing" = defn.
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- 7) "Weeping wistaria" without Battle Song: silly fluff
- lacking really strong music (7)
-
- wistful = WIST-aria (Battle song) FUL- ff anag - really strong music
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- VOTING:
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- In this posting all the submitted clues are identified by a single
- number. To vote, send me a piece of Email that looks something like
- this:
-
- Kind moderator,
-
- Here's how I felt about the entries to PCWC 7
-
- ---------------------------------------------
- 3 7
- 5 4 1
- 8 2 6
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-
- E. Pluribus
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- e@pluribus.unum.edu
-
-
- This specifies a partial ranking of the clue numbers, with
-
- 3 = 7 > 5 = 4 = 1 > 8 = 2 = 6
-
- The first line contains the numbers of the clues you like best; the
- second line those you like second best, etc. Within a line, list
- clues numbers that you like about equally well in any order. Any clue
- numbers that don't appear in your ranking will be added at the end on
- a line by themselves; all equal and worse than any that you did list.
- If you are lazy, you can just send me a single number of the clue
- you like best; note, however, that the greater an effort you make
- to differentiate between all the clues, the more accurate the results
- will be. If you list a number more than once, you will be sent
- to the farm, immediately.
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- Should you wish to make critical comments regarding any or all of the
- clues, your comments will be sent along to the authors anonymously
- provided everything is clearly divided by clue and you don't present
- the kind moderator with an editing nightmare.
-
- Please note that the lines with clue numbers in your voting should be
- bracketed by lines with only dashes, to facilitate automatic
- tabulation of the scores.
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- Both clue submitters and non-submitters are allowed to vote. You ARE
- allowed to vote for your own clue, but please try to be honest. Of
- course, one vote per person; DON'T use multiple accounts or aliases to
- stuff the ballot box or encourage your cronies and cohorts to vote for
- your clue just so you can win.
-
- SCORING:
-
- The scoring will be as in tournaments, with 1 point for each better
- ranking and 1/2 point for a tie. So, for example, based only on the
- votes of E. Pluribus above, the scoring (assuming there were 8 entries)
- would be
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- Clue Pts.
- 1 4
- 2 1
- 3 6 1/2
- 4 4
- 5 4
- 6 1
- 7 6 1/2
- 8 1
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- The total scores will be the sum of the scores from all voters. The
- moderator does not vote.
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- Brian C. Spollen Internet:bcs@sc.harris.com
- Harris Corporation EDA Division PHONE: 716/924-9303 x210
- Fishers, New York 14453 "Taste makes Waist"
-