[Fictionary] SQUOYLE results

[lindafowens at netzero.net]

Arf and ditto.  LInda

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From: E Cohen <eac at inbox.com>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] SQUOYLE results
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:30:15 -0400

On 26-Mar-20 16:07, lindafowens at netzero.net wrote:
> 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.

I believe "Wickiup!" is the traditional cowboy cry when committing a 
change to Wikipedia.

BTW, good wishes for all fictioneers to be safe and well.


> ---------- Original Message ----------
> 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 
> <mailto: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
> Â
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