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I'll vote for J - sounds like a collective noun, like "flock"
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I think I'll let my dog choose ....
*snuffle* *snuffle*
Jeffy says - as indicated by the dog goo on my screen - that E is the answer.
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I assume one is ineligible for this contest if one knows the meaning of "cullet" without looking it up. I am inclined to disqualify myself on this basis but there are so many entries, perhaps it is permissible to feign ignorance of the meaning of the word.
Can one feign ignorance by choosing correctly, passing the choice off as random chance?
If one feigns ignorance by choosing incorrectly, how can one hope to win this game?
A very perplexing challenge you have presented to us, Bingley.
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If I know the meaning I will usually feign ignorance by choosing the definition I find most original and well-crafted. One wins the game by offering a definition that is original and sufficiently well-crafted to attract the most votes from those who are or are not feigning ignorance. If one has not submitted a defintion of one's own one has no hope of winning. I say all this for the benefit of any newbies who may not fully understand the rules of this game and not for anyone who is feigning ignorance of them for whatever reasons of his own.
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Your explanation is very helpful, Faldage.
I cannot speak for anyone who might be feigning ignorance of the rules, of course.
I have never played the game myself before, nor have I ever seen any rules of the game before, let alone any explanation of the rules of the game.
I always assumed the game was something conceived for the amusement of insiders.
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"the game", known hereabouts as hogwash®, is a total ripoff of the commercial game Balderdash®, which itself was torn whole from from Wilbur Webster's Dictionary Game (Copyright © 1987), which we used to play with pencil, paper and a dictionary when we were kids (the 60s). not knowing any better, we called it the dictionary game.
we were an odd lot, even then.
-joe (hogmaster®) friday
(this failure to capitalize on the commercial prospects of something we played as youngsters ranks just behind our failure with a game we called Minnesota Eights, in which nearly every card in a 52-card deck came to have a special meaning; e.g., reversing the direction of play, causing people to skip their turn or draw cards and skip their turn, exchanging hands or portions thereof, etc. also, when a person got down to one card, she had to call "last card" or when exposed, draw one and skip her next turn. is this mindful of Uno® yet?)
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Wish I hadn't used babylon immediately. But having done so I must praise the publisher! No one had even suggested the correct answer as an option! Well done!
As for def C - I am going keep it in my private collection
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Wish I hadn't used babylon immediately. But having done so I must praise the publisher!
Welcome, AA. I don't understand the above; would you expound?
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