[Fictionary] SQUOYLE results

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I was thinking in my wickiup def about where my brother  Bill used to live on the Olympic Peninsula:  Sequim, pronounced Squim.  Linda PS My mother in law used to used wickiup for an all-purpose def of any small hut.  

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From: Hutch <hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com>
To: fictionary group <fictionary at swarpa.net>
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] SQUOYLE results
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:51:38 -0400


 
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:21 PM eLLioTT morEton <em at swarpa.net> wrote: [snippety]Â Jim:Â  Apropos of very little, I once mused about how to calculate the 
 shape of the path a squirrel would take if it were trying to climb a tree 
 quickly while remaining out of sight of a pedestrian walking in a straight 
 line past the tree. I called the shape a squiral, but didnt actually work 
 out a formula for it... I saw a video on YouTube a while back where the guy did work out a formula LIKE this one, not identical. I looked for it today, but couldn't find it :-( [snippety] ________________________________________________________________________________
 # Hutch
 squoyle -- n. -- (Am. Plains states, especially south central Nebraska)
 correct width of a quarter-section farm field, approx 2,550 to 2,600 feet.
 (For unscrupulous surveyor: Berwyn M Squoyle, notorious for platting
 approximately 600 square miles over a period of five years with short
 measures in order to sell the "extra" sections for his own benefit;
 murdered in July 1898 outside Ansley, Nebraska).
 
 Pierre: I'm in a metes-and-bounds state, but I had to learn about division 
 of public
 lands, so I'm pretty sure I'd have heard of this.
 
 Jim:Â  Well, it cant be by Elliott, so perhaps David crafted this one? 
 Honorable mention. There's actually a clue hidden in plain sight there. There *is* actually a town called Ansley, Nebraska. If you zoom in far enough on Google Maps, you will find a few miles outside of Ansley, the town of Berwyn: from which I named my villain. :-) [snippety] BB,Hutch -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----Version: 3.1GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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