New Prompt

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Okay, this prompt left me running for a dictionary. I pulled a bunch of words from those word of the day lists, and I had never heard this one. That's what I get for copy-pasting huge lists without actually reading them. But I'm going to be good and go with it since it came to the top.

Glissade

Has *anyone* actually heard of this?? I looked it up and I got...

From Mirriam Webster

French, noun, slide, glissade, from glisser to slide
1 : to perform a ballet glissade
2 : to slide in a standing or squatting position down a snow-covered slope without the aid of skis

From Dictionary.com

–noun
1. a skillful glide over snow or ice in descending a mountain, as on skis or a toboggan.
2. Dance. a sliding or gliding step.
–verb (used without object)
3. to perform a glissade.
[Origin: 1830–40; < F, equiv. to gliss(er) to slip, slide + -ade -ade1]

From American Ballet Theater

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Voting!

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Okay, it's voting time, and then I'll be back in just a second with a couple of awards and some 'welcome backs' for our returning members!

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The good news--we've found a couple of our lost writers. Welcome back stillrose and apsik!

Okay, we lost shadow_in_eden again. This time she earned a Calliope Award. 


The second loss is qamratala.  She's been with us for six weeks, so she gets a Clio. 


Hopefully we'll get both the ladies back this week with our new, funky prompt.


And we're on to week 15 (OMG!), so people who've been here since week one will qualify for Melpomene after this week.