"Mornington Dictionary (2002 ed.)"

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• Darren: The state of having a Kennedy in the White House.

  whisto

• Raak: A little-played hybrid of whist and rummy, involving a combination of trick- taking and lay-downs.

  blum-blum-shub

• Darren: President Bush's pet name for himself.

  mornopoly

• Tolken: A variant of Boardo. (about time we had one, too)

  crom-bar

• Darren: A weapon used by the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

  rimfle

• Phil: The corrugated effect around the edge of an apple pie, achieved by press the pastry down with the back of a fork.
  Theque
• Tolken: An architectural feature resulting from coffee mug rings on blueprints and other schematic drawings.
  fasonry
• Newkid: The beauty treatment that preceded plastic surgery.

  Skidmard

• ImNotJohn: The depression that comes on you when you hear someone going on and on and on about their winter holidays.

  footlath

• Darren: A strip of wood or metal within the foot, upon which footplaster is applied.

  plaxter

• Raak: A plax-maker.

  plax

• MoA: 1) Primitive, and decidedly brutal, dental tool. 2) Ebonics: To request politely.

  jerhume

• octate: group of eight musicians
• Darren: (going back to "jerhume") To dig up a corpse in the Channel Isles.

  regbular

• Tolken: The quality of symmetrical bubbles.

  ficticon

• Darren: The little image for clicking which allows you to uninstall Sony's XCP copy protection system. (Not exactly topical but still.)

  spolash

• Tolken: Common injury amongst over-enthusiastic erotic dancers

  Curstmas

• Prince Regent: A church service with a hex placed on it
  
  Fuletide
• Raak: The annual outbreak of idiot programming on the TV as the New Year approaches.

  advint

• Darren: A breath-freshener bearing a promotional offer.

  prestent

• Footnotes: One of the uses to which a John Prescott can be put
  
  bocksing
• Phil: The sort of song people perform after too much German beer

  Ternimate

• Subeditor: A companion for bird watching excursions
  
  prump
• Saxon: Ooops! Pardon me! (it's those brussels you know...)
  
  giraffle
• Footnotes: An apparatus for thoroughly mixing tombola tickets
  
  mecundity
• Darren: Robot song.

  ambiticon

• Newkid: A small picture of a Liberal Democrat MP.

  Blaggan

• Projoy: The peculiar report made by a blunderbuss, when heard from several fields away.
  
  I wonder, given that we are now in 2006, to end our drafting efforts on this 2002 edition? It does seem to have slowed down a touch latterly too, so...

• Projoy (Winner's Comments): I meant "I wonder, given that we are now in 2006, if it's time to end..."
• Projoy (Second Winner's Comment): Up for another round?
• Projoy (the real one): Er, that wasn't me.
• Dan: [Fake Projoy] Please don't impersonate other players. As it's the first time I'm not going to block the network you're posting from or reveal the other name you're playing under here but I do have both of those pieces of information.
• Projoy: (just to be clear, it was me who killed the game and wrote winner's comments, but not me who wrote the second set of winner's comments).
• stamble: stamble
• Darren: Clearly the patron saint of cheerful walkers has paid us a visit.
• ratufa bicolor hainana: rodential
• Jack Lambert: Google is the best search engine
• Edlyn: Hello. I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I am from Japan and bad know English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "Let the man in front of you make some efforts to get close to you so that he could know you better." Thank :-) Edlyn.
• nfras: Well Edlyn, I tend to find that a 4 horse box trifecta is the best system known to man but if you can create something better I will gladly be enslaved by it.

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