<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I remember some of these words too. Was "loco-foco" one of mine? I remember having found it in-context a few years after it appeared in the game, but can't remember if I submitted it.</div><div><br></div><div>The poor Wordsmith guys thought that the game was to identify which words were real and which were fake. Since they were ALL real, they kept finding more and more definitions, even of the ones they thought HAD to be fake. *LOL*</div><div>=<br></div><div>Yes, I'm getting old too: 62 last month. I've been playing this game since some time in the early to mid '90s, so approximately 30 years. J-J introduced it to me (and vice versa). Not sure, but I believe it had been going for about 5 or 6 years when I joined.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div>BB, <br></div><div>Hutch</div><div> </div><div>-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----</div><div>Version: 3.1</div><div>GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$</div><div>N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?</div><div>X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++></div><div>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 7:04 AM Pierre Abbat <<a href="mailto:phma@bezitopo.org">phma@bezitopo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sunday, February 11, 2024 6:08:00 PM EST Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:<br>
> I stumbled across this message board thread from 2002 in which someone has<br>
> stumbled across Jed's list of fictionary words from this very game and used<br>
> it to start a conversation about unusual words. I still remember many of<br>
> those words and some of the fake defs associated with them.<br>
> <br>
> This game is OLD and so am I!<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=printthread&Board=4&main=4064" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=printthread&Board=4&main=4064</a><br>
> &type=thread<br>
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Some of these I don't remember seeing on Jed's site, such as "cresset" and <br>
"scovel". When at the hotel they put some food in a tray, with a can of <br>
something burning under it, could the can with something burning in it be <br>
called a cresset?<br>
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Pierre<br>
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Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.<br>
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