What's the Good Word Contest Poll. Vote NOW!

[Shyflower]

This poll is the final judging for our What's the Good Word Contest. Actually, it's the only judging! We (boo hoo ) only had five entries, so we fired all the judges and we are leaving it up to you to decide on the winning entries.

To make it fair, the entries below are posted anonymously. So read through them all and cast your vote for the one you think is best!

Our list of good words is:

• abditory: a place for hiding things
• acclumsid: clumsy, numbed or paralyzed.
• boondoggle: a project that arguably wastes time and money.
• defenestrate: to throw out of or jump from a window
• eleemosynary: referring to charity or philanthropy
• fanfaronade: empty boasting
• floccinaucinihilipilification: estimation that something is valueless.
• gamut: entire set or range of..
• gobbledygook: gibberish
• interregnum: the period between one ruler/leader finishing and the next one starting (lit. between kings)
• ninnyhammer: basket case; one who is overly nervous
• paradigm: an ideal, a model, a prototype, an archetype
• paraprosdokian: a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
• sphygmomanometer: The blood pressure thingy

This poll runs until June 13th (a lucky number indeed ) so vote NOW!

We'll pair up the entries with the authors next Tuesday and award the prizes.

NOTE: Please! No comments in this thread. Use it to read the entries and vote. You may post any comments in the original "kickoff thread". However, absolutely no campaigning for any entry is allowed here, whether or not it's your entry. Of course, the contestants may vote for their own entry. (Who wouldn't? )

Good luck to our five contestants and thanks for entering!

[Shyflower]

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Unsurprisingly for an animal made from food she never tired and if you checked her pulse or used a sphygmomanometer to determine her blood pressure you wouldn't even get a reading. There's no gibberish in this story or word of a lie but strangely she had a body that resembled a cauliflower. Plus a face the somehow looked somehow looked like potato.

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[Shyflower]

An Elegy on Lost Love

My dear, sweet love, the very paradigm of beauty,
Hath left me now, and stolen my heart's booty.
My soul is thus acclumsid, my thoughts almost commensurate,
With those of souls who sigh and then defenestrate.
My gamut of emotion thus, myself a ninnyhammer,
I spout this gobbledygook, and cry, and stammer.
This end was unexpected, a paraprosdokian:
I had expected joy, but got an instaban.
But no, I shall not fret, nor seek an interregnum
Betwixt the tyrannies of sorrow and regret.
I shall not beg forgiveness, nor ask for explanation,
But simply will accept her floccinaucinihilipilification.
Nor do I seek your sympathy or eleemosynary gestures:
I turn my back on charity and all its sickly vestures.
I shall accept my fate, my plaintive cries shall peter,
Lest vexing thoughts o'ertax my sphygmomanometer.
My darkling heart, once such an abditory,
I'll open wide, and not conceal my story.
Nor shall I justify myself with some fanfaronade,
But rather soothe my injured heart with lime and lemonade.
No longer shall I seek to win the hearts of maids:
I'm done with these boondoggle escapades.
On this I am resolved, I openly declare …
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[Shyflower]

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