[Fictionary] YAMEN results

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

And scrolling further down the results, I see that your son is US 
Champion as well.
http://www.vmeyer.net/results.html

Jean-Joseph

On 10/20/2013 7:32 PM, Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:
> And one of your grandsons won a national orienteering championship 
> today (coming from behind to soundly trounce the field, with my 
> girlfriend's son hanging on to snag second place).
>
> Back in the day, there was typically a yurt or pope-smoke reference in 
> every round.  Or maybe it wasn't really that often, but nostalgia 
> makes it seem that way.
>
> Jean-Joseph
>
> On 10/19/2013 12:19 PM, lindafowens at netzero.net wrote:
>>
>> Yikes! I must have missed that one!  Do you all have photographic 
>> memories?  Two of my kids almost do, and their map skills are 
>> incredible, but I usually remember where something is on a page.  If 
>> that, lately.  LInda
>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com>
>> To: fictionary at swarpa.net
>> Subject: Re: [Fictionary] YAMEN results
>> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:15:47 -0400
>>
>> 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
>>
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