I'm not a librarian, but I deal with them regularly (including one who occasionally plays with the team). They have assured me that this is a term they use.

"SO....How in the name of all that is fucking holy did BT define it, in Showdown of all places, as lacking principles?" - Rhino

That's an eloquent deliquescence, Dave. Why can't I have meltdowns like yours? During the reign of King Bill, maybe 1997, Showdown had a definition question, the subject I've forgotten, but failing to find the definition in Webster's Unabridged, and well aware that there was a homographic French cognate, which sounds racy but none will admit to it, I consulted Cassell's New French, where the Showdown writer had placed his money on a 5th variant, not altogether in keeping with the previous four - rather as if bond-bearers, torchbearers, and Barry Bonds, all suddenly gave way to an infuriated herbivore. Your horn is too sharp for more intimate inspection. Decision for the plaintiff.

I'd like to grab a two-fer here and thank Ranger on the deaccession of excessively subtle questions. Can Ranger recall where and when his library may have required deaccessioning? Wait! Doesn't Ranger live in Wisconsin, where they refer to water fountains as bubblers?

Not long after my previous post I strolled into the local beer garden (where, it being summer here, the beer busches are in full bloom) just in time for a Countdown Question 6: Define 'Glean':
"Ok," thinx I to myself, "Old English for separating and collecting grain from chaff, whether in the field or on the threshing floor." Then the drop-down box appeared: 1...2...3. Separate 4. Collect 5... I tried to perform a quick mental calculus: you might glean a single fact, but one of anything doesn't make a collection, which implies a set. Oh, hell! If in doubt take Mother's Rule. So I hit #3, completely unaware that Wiktionary's first definition for 'Glean,' is 'Collect.'
After I'd muffed a few more questions, my thoughts assumed a darker cast: "The Mice are a bunch of idiots," and "That'll teach me to turn somersaults while stark, raving sober," and "Thank God RHINO isn't here to scoff at this debacle. Fortunately there's no way he'll ever find out about it."

On several occasions, both at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse and at Olivet College in Michigan.

CD this afternoon, Matthew Perry served in which war? He served in both 1812 and Mexican-American, both were listed as choices. Desired answer was Mexican-American.

He fought both wars with Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, and Jennifer Aniston!

SIX, 11/20/14, Marathon Round.

We were asked which of the listed moons was not among the five Galilean satellites of Jupiter. Galileo will be so bummed to find out there was a spot on his lens.

There was a question last night, 3/4/15, I think in Showdown, about who is the governor of Texas. The Buzzie answer was Rick Perry, but he's no longer the governor. Since January Greg Abbott (I think) has been the governor.
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