Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 1999/02

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] definition of
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:30:19 -0500

"Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary..." has long been our favourite for playing
Fictionary! It's a great book!

And now back to our regularly scheduled concert...

-Scott

>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:30:36 -0500
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
>Subject: [kl] definition of "Charette"
>
>A bit of useless trivia:
>
>According to "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and
Preposterous
>Words" by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books/Citadel Press,
Secaucus,
>NJ, 1974), The word "charette" is defined as:
>
>n. 1. the eleventh-hour efforts of architecture students to solve
their
>design-problem assignments. 2. applied more generally to other work
with
>specific due dates. 3. a cart or chariot.
>
>Mark, does any of this sound like it fits?
>
>By the way, Josefa Heifetz is a trained concert pianist and composer by
>trade. Every entry in her dictionary has been accepted as a formal or
>legitimate English word by at least one major dictionary, including
such
>outrageous things as "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" (adj. pertaining
to a
>very, very long word. see sesquipedalian.)
>
>
>
>Bill Hausmann
bhausman@-----.com
>451 Old Orchard Drive
http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
>Essexville, MI 48732
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> ICQ UIN
4862265
>
>If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>
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