[Fictionary] YAMEN results

[Jim Moskowitz]

At 2:15 PM +0000 10/19/13, lindafowens at netzero.net wrote:
>Sorry, but the joke's on me-- I did not know that yurt was an 
>in-joke amongst our group.  Or that the word had been used 
>previously.  Did I miss something?  Perhaps it's only my bad memory? 
>Or was it used prior to my joining in late '00?


 From Elliott's great Introduction to Fictionary, from January 2001:

Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:13:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliott A Moreton <elliott at linguist.umass.edu>
Subject: For newbies:  Rules, and an example
To: fictionary at plover.com

Two new players have asked me about rules.  Here's my brief summary.
Old-timers should feel free to comment.

  [snip]

In-jokes, which you'll get habituated to after a while, include: 
* Randall, David, definitions by thought to be easily recognizable
* yurts, Mongolian, definitions containing coded references to
* Pope, combustibility of