<html><BR>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<BR>---------- Original Message ----------<BR>From: Jim Moskowitz <jim@jimmosk.com><BR>To: fictionary@swarpa.net<BR>Subject: Re: [Fictionary] YAMEN results<BR>Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:15:47 -0400<BR><BR>At 2:15 PM +0000 10/19/13, lindafowens@netzero.net wrote:<BR>>Sorry, but the joke's on me-- I did not know that yurt was an <BR>>in-joke amongst our group. Or that the word had been used <BR>>previously. Did I miss something? Perhaps it's only my bad memory? <BR>>Or was it used prior to my joining in late '00?<BR><BR><BR>From Elliott's great Introduction to Fictionary, from January 2001:<BR><BR>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:13:27 -0500 (EST)<BR>From: Elliott A Moreton <elliott@linguist.umass.edu><BR>Subject: For newbies: Rules, and an example<BR>To: fictionary@plover.com<BR><BR>Two new players have asked me about rules. Here's my brief summary.<BR>Old-timers should feel free to comment.<BR><BR> [snip]<BR><BR>In-jokes, which you'll get habituated to after a while, include: <BR>* Randall, David, definitions by thought to be easily recognizable<BR>* yurts, Mongolian, definitions containing coded references to<BR>* Pope, combustibility of<BR><BR><BR></html>
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