From: bcs@sc.harris.com (Brian Spollen)
Subject: PCWC7 ballot
Organization: Harris Electronic Design Automation
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 14:53:14 GMT





 			PCWC 7 Ballot

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:

  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.

This post is divided into three parts.

 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

 1) Intent to start with incredible scenes that 
    feature underwater lovemaking   (7)

 2) "Wait, sit", I foully sputter, sadly pensive (7)

 3) Dairy state, one fourth empty, is pensive (7)

 4) Pensive, first wondering, is german wind back? (7)

 5) Yearning for swift reorganization with testing group (7)

 6) Disoriented wife is consumed with lust and longing (7)

 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)

        Intent =  defn

        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)

        sputter = alternate: WaIt SiT i FoUlLy;
        sadly wistful = wistful

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 3) Dairy state, one fourth empty, is pensive (7)

	"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)

    definition     w          is (luft back =) tful

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 5) Yearning for swift reorganization with testing group (7)

        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)

          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:

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

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3 7
5 4 1
8 2 6
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         E. Pluribus 

         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.

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.

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

Clue  Pts.
 1     4
 2     1
 3     6 1/2
 4     4
 5     4
 6     1
 7     6 1/2
 8     1

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"
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