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glasshouse · 10-08-2005, 03:06 AM

Hey, Brynn. If I win I'll give myself an intricately decorated and pleasingly scented handmade invitation to observe the rules more carefully. If I lose I will still get the same prize.

12"razormix · 10-08-2005, 07:41 AM

pleiotropy, n.

a region slightly south of the equator that contains rapidly changing climates.
tropical rainforests are biologically diverse and pleiotrope regions go from one extreme (excessive rain) to the other (excessive aridity) in very short time intervals due to the position of the sun in that particular latitude. these regions are rarely larger than 5-10 sqm and are typically not inhabited.

see also "tropic of capricorn".

xfox · 10-08-2005, 10:08 AM

pleiotropy a combination of simultaneously feeling great pleasure at the sagacious judging of a contest that you participated in and extreme happiness that somebody else won.

trisherina · 10-08-2005, 12:17 PM

pleiotropy: the slow, almost imperceptible process whereby unused artistic ability withers and shrivels from lack of expression.

Brynn · 10-08-2005, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glasshouse

Hey, Brynn. If I win I'll give myself an intricately decorated and pleasingly scented handmade invitation to observe the rules more carefully. If I lose I will still get the same prize.

(Nods approvingly)

Welcome!

Pleiotropy (n.) - the shrill, simultaneous wailing of many children in a poorly-run daycare center.

Blanche's head pounded against the pleiotropy assaulting her ears on her first day, and she took a moment to dig frantically in her clutch for an Advil as a toddler rubbed his snotty nose against her slacks.

Con ate dog · 10-09-2005, 05:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brynn

Pleiotropy (n.) - the shrill, simultaneous wailing of many children in a poorly-run daycare center.

I suffer from it 5 days a week.

Pleiotropy (n.) The genre of photography devoted to capturing dancers in motion, typically with mirror image and/or other effects and tricks.

daverbee · 10-10-2005, 09:30 AM

pleiotropy:
Death by boredom of prehistoric animals.
eg:
In spite of rushing him to the Vet, Fred could only sit in sadness as his beloved sabre-tooth succumbed to pleiotropy.

dddrum · 10-10-2005, 02:05 PM

pleiotropy (n.) - an award given by male office workers on Monday mornings to the guy who has hooked up with the most ladies during the previous weekend. Usually accompanied by a bagel and a box of condoms.

glasshouse · 10-10-2005, 09:49 PM

The real definition:

PLEIOTROPY - Multiple, often seemingly unrelated, physical effects caused by a single altered gene or pair of altered genes. When one gene produces several phenotypic effects.

Beautiful work by all wordsmiths. Awards are as follows:

The “I have no idea what you are talking about, but nice try” award proudly goes to:
funkytuba
PLEIOTROPY - a moldable congratulative statue

The “Generous Psychic’s delight” award will be sent via ethernet to:
xfox
pleiotropy a combination of simultaneously feeling great pleasure at the sagacious judging of a contest that you participated in and extreme happiness that somebody else won.

The “I like the paleontologist in you” award was unearthed for:
daverbee
pleiotropy: Death by boredom of prehistoric animals.

Similar in flavor, but greater in magnitude is The “Stoney biologist gone deep ecologist” award, which shall be hand carried through the steamy jungles to:
12” Razor mix
pleiotropy, n. - A region slightly south of the equator that contains rapidly changing climates. Tropical rainforests are biologically diverse and pleiotrope regions go from one extreme (excessive rain) to the other (excessive aridity) in very short time intervals due to the position of the sun in that particular latitude. These regions are rarely larger than 5-10 sqm and are typically not inhabited.

The “Ansel Adams Wannabee” award goes to everyone’s favorite child care provider:
Con ate dog - Pleiotropy (n.) The genre of photography devoted to capturing dancers in motion, typically with mirror image and/or other effects and tricks.

The “Soon to be a dad” award which comes with a year’s supply of baby wipes goes to:
Brynn
Pleiotropy (n.) - the shrill, simultaneous wailing of many children in a poorly-run daycare center.

The “Dance school drop-out” award comes with two passes to "The Nutcracker". The lucky recipient is:
Marcus Bales
pleiotropy - In the ballet, the tendency for all ballerinas to perform the same movement as the lead ballerina.

In second place with the honorable “Get off your ass and create something” award is:
trisherina
pleiotropy: the slow, almost imperceptible process whereby unused artistic ability withers and shrivels from lack of expression.

And the coveted FIRST PLACE prize of a year’s subscription to “Petflix” (The pornographic DVD home delivery service) and an economy size jar of peanut clusters is happily awarded to:
ddrum
pleiotropy (n.) - an award given by male office workers on Monday mornings to the guy who has hooked up with the most ladies during the previous weekend. Usually accompanied by a bagel and a box of condoms.

dddrum · 10-11-2005, 12:10 PM

Oboy, peanut clusters... my second-favorite type of cluster!

I do believe the next word is: antichthon.

So there.

12"razormix · 10-11-2005, 04:01 PM

antichthon, n.

water

Coffee · 10-11-2005, 06:07 PM

Antichthon: n.

An aggressive xenophobic technically highly advanced spacefaring race of insectoid sentient beings inhabiting many of the stellar systems in the Orion arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Rumor has it that they have located and are currently heading towards an as yet uncolonized 9 planet stellar system containing 4 gas giants (very attactive to the Antichthon race for their vast hydrogen, water, and methane resources) 4 rocky worlds, two of which are either immediatly colonizable or terraformable, and innumerable icy planetoids and planetesimals. Did I mention that they are carnivorous?

glasshouse · 10-11-2005, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dddrum

Oboy, peanut clusters... my second-favorite type of cluster!

I do believe the next word is: antichthon.

So there.

I suppose it would be unwise to ask what your favorite type of cluster is....hee hee.

antichthon - A long and arduous race between friends, peers, or any other groups to come up with the most entertaining activities, stories, jokes, pranks, etc.

daverbee · 10-12-2005, 11:53 AM

antichthon

Yet another monster with a weird name in an HP Lovecraft short story.
Antichthon didn't have tentacles and teeth like most of Lovecraft's monsters, rather he killed his victims by singing Perry Como hits to them over and over and over and over and over...

dinzdale · 10-12-2005, 12:29 PM

antichthon n. grammar

The affected use of multiple letters at the beginning of a word to infer that one has a fashionable stutter.
e.g cccomplete, wwwanker, dddrum etc...

10-08-2005, 03:06 AM	#691
glasshouse frustrated frustule Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: An island in the deep blue pacific. Posts: 165	Hey, Brynn. If I win I'll give myself an intricately decorated and pleasingly scented handmade invitation to observe the rules more carefully. If I lose I will still get the same prize. Last edited by glasshouse : 10-08-2005 at 03:09 AM.

10-08-2005, 10:08 AM	#693
xfox slightly effective Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: >>> Posts: 2,404	pleiotropy a combination of simultaneously feeling great pleasure at the sagacious judging of a contest that you participated in and extreme happiness that somebody else won. Last edited by xfox : 10-08-2005 at 11:51 PM.

10-08-2005, 12:17 PM	#694
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	pleiotropy: the slow, almost imperceptible process whereby unused artistic ability withers and shrivels from lack of expression. __________________ Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dillard

10-10-2005, 09:30 AM	#697
daverbee Key Lime Pie rocks!!! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oh, yeah! Posts: 7,695	pleiotropy: Death by boredom of prehistoric animals. eg: In spite of rushing him to the Vet, Fred could only sit in sadness as his beloved sabre-tooth succumbed to pleiotropy. __________________ Time is essential because without it everything would happen all at once.

10-10-2005, 02:05 PM	#698
dddrum Amateur Human Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Hills north of Mouseland, sunny FLA. Posts: 1,264	pleiotropy (n.) - an award given by male office workers on Monday mornings to the guy who has hooked up with the most ladies during the previous weekend. Usually accompanied by a bagel and a box of condoms. __________________ ...or words to that effect.

10-08-2005, 07:41 AM	#692
12"razormix ° ★ ° Join Date: May 2004 Location: ªs°k° Posts: 6,458	pleiotropy, n. a region slightly south of the equator that contains rapidly changing climates. tropical rainforests are biologically diverse and pleiotrope regions go from one extreme (excessive rain) to the other (excessive aridity) in very short time intervals due to the position of the sun in that particular latitude. these regions are rarely larger than 5-10 sqm and are typically not inhabited. see also "tropic of capricorn".

10-10-2005, 09:49 PM	#699
glasshouse frustrated frustule Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: An island in the deep blue pacific. Posts: 165	The real definition: PLEIOTROPY - Multiple, often seemingly unrelated, physical effects caused by a single altered gene or pair of altered genes. When one gene produces several phenotypic effects. Beautiful work by all wordsmiths. Awards are as follows: The “I have no idea what you are talking about, but nice try” award proudly goes to: funkytuba PLEIOTROPY - a moldable congratulative statue The “Generous Psychic’s delight” award will be sent via ethernet to: xfox pleiotropy a combination of simultaneously feeling great pleasure at the sagacious judging of a contest that you participated in and extreme happiness that somebody else won. The “I like the paleontologist in you” award was unearthed for: daverbee pleiotropy: Death by boredom of prehistoric animals. Similar in flavor, but greater in magnitude is The “Stoney biologist gone deep ecologist” award, which shall be hand carried through the steamy jungles to: 12” Razor mix pleiotropy, n. - A region slightly south of the equator that contains rapidly changing climates. Tropical rainforests are biologically diverse and pleiotrope regions go from one extreme (excessive rain) to the other (excessive aridity) in very short time intervals due to the position of the sun in that particular latitude. These regions are rarely larger than 5-10 sqm and are typically not inhabited. The “Ansel Adams Wannabee” award goes to everyone’s favorite child care provider: Con ate dog - Pleiotropy (n.) The genre of photography devoted to capturing dancers in motion, typically with mirror image and/or other effects and tricks. The “Soon to be a dad” award which comes with a year’s supply of baby wipes goes to: Brynn Pleiotropy (n.) - the shrill, simultaneous wailing of many children in a poorly-run daycare center. The “Dance school drop-out” award comes with two passes to "The Nutcracker". The lucky recipient is: Marcus Bales pleiotropy - In the ballet, the tendency for all ballerinas to perform the same movement as the lead ballerina. In second place with the honorable “Get off your ass and create something” award is: trisherina pleiotropy: the slow, almost imperceptible process whereby unused artistic ability withers and shrivels from lack of expression. And the coveted FIRST PLACE prize of a year’s subscription to “Petflix” (The pornographic DVD home delivery service) and an economy size jar of peanut clusters is happily awarded to: ddrum pleiotropy (n.) - an award given by male office workers on Monday mornings to the guy who has hooked up with the most ladies during the previous weekend. Usually accompanied by a bagel and a box of condoms. Last edited by glasshouse : 10-11-2005 at 06:03 AM.

10-11-2005, 12:10 PM	#700
dddrum Amateur Human Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Hills north of Mouseland, sunny FLA. Posts: 1,264	Oboy, peanut clusters... my second-favorite type of cluster! I do believe the next word is: antichthon. So there. __________________ ...or words to that effect.

10-11-2005, 04:01 PM	#701
12"razormix ° ★ ° Join Date: May 2004 Location: ªs°k° Posts: 6,458	antichthon, n. water

10-11-2005, 06:07 PM	#702
Coffee Cheeses Save Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Floating Posts: 9,204	Antichthon: n. An aggressive xenophobic technically highly advanced spacefaring race of insectoid sentient beings inhabiting many of the stellar systems in the Orion arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Rumor has it that they have located and are currently heading towards an as yet uncolonized 9 planet stellar system containing 4 gas giants (very attactive to the Antichthon race for their vast hydrogen, water, and methane resources) 4 rocky worlds, two of which are either immediatly colonizable or terraformable, and innumerable icy planetoids and planetesimals. Did I mention that they are carnivorous?

10-12-2005, 11:53 AM	#704
daverbee Key Lime Pie rocks!!! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oh, yeah! Posts: 7,695	antichthon Yet another monster with a weird name in an HP Lovecraft short story. Antichthon didn't have tentacles and teeth like most of Lovecraft's monsters, rather he killed his victims by singing Perry Como hits to them over and over and over and over and over... __________________ Time is essential because without it everything would happen all at once.

10-12-2005, 12:29 PM	#705
dinzdale King of the špatnýs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: was that dog Posts: 9,411	antichthon n. grammar The affected use of multiple letters at the beginning of a word to infer that one has a fashionable stutter. e.g cccomplete, wwwanker, dddrum etc...

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