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Simmen Stenil
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I have corrected (in A63) the original typo, so I am hereby shanghai-ing this topic to be used as the "Typo Tournament" topic.

- Samsyn

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But in the "let's make lemonade" department, let's see who can come up with the best definition of "Farewall"

The winner (I get to be the judge, of course, all capricious decisions final) gets a WoS "Magic Pen" (with the usual understanding that I will only mail one to a domestic USA address)

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So,

"What does 'Farewall' mean?"

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Example answers:

1.) A 'farewall' is that wall of the train station where they have all those ticket vending machines.

2.) A 'farewall' is a computer firewall which charges admission (now this is a good idea!)


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Farewall...First thing I thought of was a nice looking wall...
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Farewall means F*** ARE (our) WALL(mart).
Good thinking Dan, I don't like Wallmart either.
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Farewall - a wall with a facelift so it looks "fare"
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Well, the people who thought up the word "farewell" didn't like the fact that their word had the word "ewe" in it because they thought people would think "ewe" meant "eww" and not use the word, thusly they wouldn't get as much money for selling it to whoever invented the diccionary (they made a deal that they would get 1/10 of a cent whenever someone said "farewell").
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Did I win? Yes? Really? Oh, oh well, can I get the wooden spoon award at least? Plastic spoon? Please?

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Farewall n. 1) A wall by which a person is transported upon. A conveyor wall. 2) A wall where which a punishment is served for not paying a train fare. 3) Simple typo made by free game programmers - usu. considered vulgar

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Farewall, the wall people lean against when they're waiting for a taxi.

LGH


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Farewall - N - 1) A wall that can be hired to "stand" between two rooms. 2) An edible wall 3) (OE) A wall that travels.
-V In the process of farewalling. (-ing)

Quoted from the Well of Souls Damp Dictionary (Evergreen edition).

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Farewall: The words yelled before the knocking down of a wall.

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Farewall:
A wall in Disneyland. (You pay by the hour to use it)

-Merlin


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farewall a wall on wich u hit snerts heads against for not being fair/fare (fare was the typo not wall)

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Who won the thing? Hhhmmm.......

Farewall - 1)A wall that sells fries, burgers, hotdogs, peanuts and drinks at a baseball game. 2)A wall with a pretty face designed in it, 3)A wall that sits on the suppreme court....

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Farewall (verb): The act of trapping someone inside of a wall.

-XTeRmInAtEr


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A farewall:
Similar to a firewall, but it can be bribed with shiny coins. Not a particularly sound defense for your computer.
Edit: Right! Now I feel doubly stupid after realizing that this is one of the example definitions. Strangely enough, I read it at the outset, but I must have missed it when I checked for it before I posted. =) I'm sorry for being a dumb cluck; please don't eat me!

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*Takes a bite*
Yummy

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A Farewall: Item # XXXX available via quest for those with less than 100 hours game play that when equiped prevents them from being pked by anyone that is more than 5 levels higher or has more than 500 hours gameplay.
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ehaat di yiu meann bye s 'typo TORnonemt"/ iS ity somethomf O could jooim?>
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Hey Dan did anyone win yet?

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I will pick the winner... on.... friday! (late-ish)

So get your entries in now.

Remember, a WoS MAGIC PEN is at stake!


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Thats cool Dan. I'll be waiting to see who the lucky dog is......

Oh yeah on my entries.......the first one is like the "fare" used in "He sold his fares at the market". The second is "fair" as in pretty, and the third is "fair" as in just.......

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mmmmmmmmmmmmm magic pen
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Time is almost up.............I wonder who will win?

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I took out a Japanese dictionary and played with it for a while.

"Farewall" roughly becomes "fa (short o, kind of) re (long a) wa (short o again, kind of) ru (some cross between l and r for the consonant, and an oo vowel)." I did some checking and found that "waru" can mean any of the following:

to divide, to cut, to break, to halve (plain form of verb) OR bad thing, bad person.

Unfortunately, "fare" (Japanese pronunciation, please!) is not in the dictionary. Neither is "faru", nor "feru". The closest match possible is "furu", which can mean:

to wave; used/secondhand; to precipitate; full.

So my best guess is something along the lines of "Secondhand Bad Thing" or "Broken Precipitation".

It seems the second one would be good for weather forecasts...instead of saying "The weather will rain today, off and on", we can say "The weather will farewall today" and be done with it.

I feel this deserves some kind of credit for originality...

-GJ


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Well last night came and went.........Dan slipped...........He didn't annouce the winner............... BAD DAN, BAD!!! Just joking........

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It's still friday in my heart :-)

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OK, this was tough. but I am the judge. my word is final.

At first, of course, that meant: "magic pens for everyone!"

But, sadly, with the recent icky-stuff-in-the-mail problems, I really can't send that many without feeling like I am scaring postal employees around the world (the Magic Pen envelope is sort of lumpy and unusual looking)

Hence, I have picked TWO winners. Using two different strategies.

WINNER #1 is....

"Motti" (It was the Old English reference which sold me )

WINNER #2 is.... /a uses /dice command

"Mirage"

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So, if motti and mirage would email me with a US mailing address to which I may ship their magic pens, they can soon be writing.. um.. stuff... in all the style of an insurance salesman's customer!

Send your mailing address (USA only, remember...) to "magicPen@synthetic-reality.com"

Thanks for playing! You're ALL winners!


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Oh this cool............I guess I won by luck........ good job everyone, I saw some pretty original, and cool entries out there........

- Mirage -
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