[Fictionary] YAMEN results

[lindafowens at netzero.net]

JJ, Rats, We weren't able to make the race, but congrats to both the boys!  LInda  PS Thanks for telling me--I haven't heard about the race results yet.  

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Jean-Joseph Cote <jjcote at alum.mit.edu>
To: fictionary group <fictionary at swarpa.net>
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] YAMEN results
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:32:03 -0400

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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