Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:05 am
Yeah sorry...we were working on the fact that the lists would be switched. My 5 words were
Transatlantic
Hauptstadt (German for captial city - nothing against words in other lannguages)
Indigenous
Celebrations
Collate
Luckily it was too late so the other two had already sent in that list
EDIT - For convinience, here are the definitions of each word
Choleric -
1. Easily angered; bad-tempered.
2. Showing or expressing anger.
Equilibrium -
1. A condition in which all acting influences are canceled by others, resulting in a stable, balanced, or unchanging system.
2. Mental or emotional balance; poise.
3. Physics. The state of a body or physical system at rest or in unaccelerated motion in which the resultant of all forces acting on it is zero and the sum of all torques about any axis is zero.
4. Chemistry. The state of a chemical reaction in which its forward and reverse reactions occur at equal rates so that the concentration of the reactants and products does not change with time.
Canterbury -
1. A city of southeast Australia, a suburb of Sydney. Population: 128,000.
2. A borough of southeast England on the Stour River east-southeast of London. Canterbury Cathedral (11th-16th century) is the seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Communion. Built on the site of an abbey founded by Saint Augustine c. 600, it was the scene of the murder of Thomas à Becket (1170). Population: 36,000.
3. The best area in New Zealand. Home of the best city in New Zealand, Christchurch. GO kiwis!
Schorlaceous -
A complex crystalline silicate containing aluminum, boron, and other elements, used in electronic instrumentation.
Watermelon -
1. An African vine (Citrullus lanatus) cultivated for its large edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this plant, having a hard green rind and sweet watery pink or reddish flesh.
Darmstadtium -
The 110th Element on the Periodic Table of Elements
Welfare -
1.
a. Health, happiness, and good fortune; well-being.
b. Prosperity.
2. Welfare work.
3.
a. Financial or other aid provided, especially by the government, to people in need.
b. Corporate welfare.
Canine -
1. An animal of the family Canidae, especially a dog.
2. One of the pointed, conical teeth located between the incisors and the first bicuspids. Also called cuspid.
Yeoman -
1.
a. An attendant, servant, or lesser official in a royal or noble household.
b. A yeoman of the guard.
2. A petty officer performing chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
3. An assistant or other subordinate, as of a sheriff.
4. A diligent, dependable worker.
5. A farmer who cultivates his own land, especially a member of a former class of small freeholders in England.
Persephone -
The daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades but rescued by her mother and thereafter spent six months of the year on earth and six months in the underworld.
Masters -
1. The owner or keeper of an animal: The dog ran toward its master.
2. The owners of slaves
Acanthocephalan -
Any of various worms of the phylum Acanthocephala that live parasitically in the intestines of vertebrates and are characterized by a cylindrical, retractile proboscis that bears many rows of hooked spines
Mitochondrion -
A spherical or elongated organelle in the cytoplasm of nearly all eukaryotic cells, containing genetic material and many enzymes important for cell metabolism, including those responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy. Also called chondriosome.
Mizzenmast -
The third mast or the mast aft of a mainmast on a ship having three or more masts.
Sulfanilamide -
A white, odorless crystalline sulfonamide, C6H8N2SO2, used in the treatment of various bacterial infections.
Transatlantic
Hauptstadt (German for captial city - nothing against words in other lannguages)
Indigenous
Celebrations
Collate
Luckily it was too late so the other two had already sent in that list
EDIT - For convinience, here are the definitions of each word
Choleric -
1. Easily angered; bad-tempered.
2. Showing or expressing anger.
Equilibrium -
1. A condition in which all acting influences are canceled by others, resulting in a stable, balanced, or unchanging system.
2. Mental or emotional balance; poise.
3. Physics. The state of a body or physical system at rest or in unaccelerated motion in which the resultant of all forces acting on it is zero and the sum of all torques about any axis is zero.
4. Chemistry. The state of a chemical reaction in which its forward and reverse reactions occur at equal rates so that the concentration of the reactants and products does not change with time.
Canterbury -
1. A city of southeast Australia, a suburb of Sydney. Population: 128,000.
2. A borough of southeast England on the Stour River east-southeast of London. Canterbury Cathedral (11th-16th century) is the seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Communion. Built on the site of an abbey founded by Saint Augustine c. 600, it was the scene of the murder of Thomas à Becket (1170). Population: 36,000.
3. The best area in New Zealand. Home of the best city in New Zealand, Christchurch. GO kiwis!
Schorlaceous -
A complex crystalline silicate containing aluminum, boron, and other elements, used in electronic instrumentation.
Watermelon -
1. An African vine (Citrullus lanatus) cultivated for its large edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this plant, having a hard green rind and sweet watery pink or reddish flesh.
Darmstadtium -
The 110th Element on the Periodic Table of Elements
Welfare -
1.
a. Health, happiness, and good fortune; well-being.
b. Prosperity.
2. Welfare work.
3.
a. Financial or other aid provided, especially by the government, to people in need.
b. Corporate welfare.
Canine -
1. An animal of the family Canidae, especially a dog.
2. One of the pointed, conical teeth located between the incisors and the first bicuspids. Also called cuspid.
Yeoman -
1.
a. An attendant, servant, or lesser official in a royal or noble household.
b. A yeoman of the guard.
2. A petty officer performing chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
3. An assistant or other subordinate, as of a sheriff.
4. A diligent, dependable worker.
5. A farmer who cultivates his own land, especially a member of a former class of small freeholders in England.
Persephone -
The daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades but rescued by her mother and thereafter spent six months of the year on earth and six months in the underworld.
Masters -
1. The owner or keeper of an animal: The dog ran toward its master.
2. The owners of slaves
Acanthocephalan -
Any of various worms of the phylum Acanthocephala that live parasitically in the intestines of vertebrates and are characterized by a cylindrical, retractile proboscis that bears many rows of hooked spines
Mitochondrion -
A spherical or elongated organelle in the cytoplasm of nearly all eukaryotic cells, containing genetic material and many enzymes important for cell metabolism, including those responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy. Also called chondriosome.
Mizzenmast -
The third mast or the mast aft of a mainmast on a ship having three or more masts.
Sulfanilamide -
A white, odorless crystalline sulfonamide, C6H8N2SO2, used in the treatment of various bacterial infections.
Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:36 pm
Wow, I was no good at poem making before, but now I hopeless with these words 
Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:59 pm
Just to clear things up; the poem may be ANY length, but you cannot manipulate the words in ANY way (spacing, plural, etc)
Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:01 pm
You people are very random... I mean there's persephone and canine and this random word I have no idea what it means (Acanthocephalan)
We should've went for the two-three letter words. XD
This is so hard....
We should've went for the two-three letter words. XD
This is so hard....
Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:54 pm
Choleric Canterbury
Canine Acanthocephalan Masters
Mitochondrion (Persephone) Yeoman
Sulfanilamide Welfare, Watermelon
Darmstadtium Mizzenmast
Schorlaceous Equilibrium
EDIT: Wait, we're allowed to use different words?
Canine Acanthocephalan Masters
Mitochondrion (Persephone) Yeoman
Sulfanilamide Welfare, Watermelon
Darmstadtium Mizzenmast
Schorlaceous Equilibrium
EDIT: Wait, we're allowed to use different words?
Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:39 pm
o_0 wrote:Choleric Canterbury
Canine Acanthocephalan Masters
Mitochondrion (Persephone) Yeoman
Sulfanilamide Welfare, Watermelon
Darmstadtium Mizzenmast
Schorlaceous Equilibrium
EDIT: Wait, we're allowed to use different words?
Yup, but it seems like you have to put the words in there.
Anywho, look at the Diva's thread, they're not much better off.
Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:20 pm
Ziggy wrote:“Now that I have received your fifteen words, the challenge can really begin. I want each side to craft the best poem they can - it can be about anything. But the catch is, it can only use the chosen fifteen words, and they may not be altered in any way, be it past tense or even plural.”
“The best poem,” Drew ends, “Will win.”
Doesn't that mean you can only use those words?
(random poem)
Chloric Canine Masters
Acanthocephalan, mitrochondrion
Mizzenmast masters, chloric
Persephone...equilibrium yeoman welfare?
Sulfanilamide, Darmstatium, Scholorlaceous.
Yay. It doesn't make sense at all, but at least it spells something: CAMPS.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I'm surprised you didn't put floccinaucinihilipilification in there.
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Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:21 pm
meh...
Choleric yeoman masters
Acanthocephalan mitochondrion welfare,
Persephone Canterbury masters
Schorlaceous canine equilibrium.
Choleric yeoman masters
Acanthocephalan mitochondrion welfare,
Persephone Canterbury masters
Schorlaceous canine equilibrium.
Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:36 pm
Canine Yeoman
Masters Equilibrium
Masters Choleric ?
Masters Equilibrium
Masters Choleric ?
Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:31 am
Our word choice....was wonderful. xp
Now i'm just wondering what happened to the suggestion of using the 15 most common words in the english language such as...."the, is" but i believe we can pull this off...better than the divas though!
Now i'm just wondering what happened to the suggestion of using the 15 most common words in the english language such as...."the, is" but i believe we can pull this off...better than the divas though!
Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:35 am
How are we going to figure out what to send?
Here's another one:
Persephone, choleric Persephone,
Welfare masters Canterbury,
Persephone, Persephone,
Canterbury, schorlaceous Canterbury,
Persephone, Persephone,
Equilibrium masters welfare,
Persephone, Persephone,
Equilibrium, Persephone.
onlinedictionary.datasegment.com defines schorlaceous as "partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl." I took this to mean "dark", not literal tournaline. Thought I would mentione that =D
I actually made up a little story with that. XD
EDIT - Sorry guys, we didn't have time to vote on this one (10 minutes left). I decided to send the one I did above in, just because it's the only one with any sort of structure (not that it's good, but it's there). Hopefully that works for us. It should be enough to beat the girls at least.
Here's another one:
Persephone, choleric Persephone,
Welfare masters Canterbury,
Persephone, Persephone,
Canterbury, schorlaceous Canterbury,
Persephone, Persephone,
Equilibrium masters welfare,
Persephone, Persephone,
Equilibrium, Persephone.
onlinedictionary.datasegment.com defines schorlaceous as "partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl." I took this to mean "dark", not literal tournaline. Thought I would mentione that =D
I actually made up a little story with that. XD
EDIT - Sorry guys, we didn't have time to vote on this one (10 minutes left). I decided to send the one I did above in, just because it's the only one with any sort of structure (not that it's good, but it's there). Hopefully that works for us. It should be enough to beat the girls at least.
Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:30 am
Oh.
Okay then Kugetsu. It's pretty nice.
Okay then Kugetsu. It's pretty nice.
Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:43 am
I didn't feel comfortable turning my own in, but we really didn't have a choice. :\ Anyway, I'm confident in our victory. =D
Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:57 am
((Sorry for being a little bit late, there was a party at my house and I couldn't get to my computer)).
"Anyway," Drew comments, "Both of the teams had a ton of bad words to use. Adding to that, the challenge may have seemed confusing (it was intended to be, believe it or not, to see how the team would work together) and chaos ensued.
"Also adding to that, I have received a number of comments that people would like the game to move faster. Well, you definetly got your wish, because since both poems were so mind-numbingly bad, there will be TWO people eliminated from each team."
"First of all, each inner circle must send in one name of who they would like to be eliminated (on their team, and not in the inner circle). Then, each 'outer' circle, or the other contestants, must send in the name of the one inner circle person they want gone."
"I need the votes by 7 PM NST tomorrow night, when they will be revealed. Then the schedule will be back on track."
"Anyway," Drew comments, "Both of the teams had a ton of bad words to use. Adding to that, the challenge may have seemed confusing (it was intended to be, believe it or not, to see how the team would work together) and chaos ensued.
"Also adding to that, I have received a number of comments that people would like the game to move faster. Well, you definetly got your wish, because since both poems were so mind-numbingly bad, there will be TWO people eliminated from each team."
"First of all, each inner circle must send in one name of who they would like to be eliminated (on their team, and not in the inner circle). Then, each 'outer' circle, or the other contestants, must send in the name of the one inner circle person they want gone."
"I need the votes by 7 PM NST tomorrow night, when they will be revealed. Then the schedule will be back on track."
Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:02 am
o_o I knew it was bad, but yeesh. Oh well, I tried it seems. I don't really know who to vote for though... -_-
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