[Fictionary] ancient fictionary history
Jean-Joseph Cote
jjcotedsl at verizon.net
Tue Aug 25 03:48:38 UTC 2020
Early 2000s? Pshaw! Try June of 1997!
It was indeed a fine round. I think we needed to provide a usage
example, and the one that stuck in my mind was the faux Gilbert and
Sullivan lyrics (supposedly from The Mikado; that took some chutzpah).
The real def with the quote from "Rules for Smoking Underwater" was just
too ridiculous to believe.
Jean-Joseph
On 8/24/2020 10:57 PM, E Cohen wrote:
> On 24-Aug-20 22:18, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:
>> Did you know that Walt Whitman was a locofoco?
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locofocos
>>
>> (Locofoco was a word in this very long game of fictionary, some time
>> in the early 2000s [!])
> It was mine!
>
> I'm still proud of it.
>
> -- Eric | eac at inbox.com
>
>
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