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And scrolling further down the results, I see that your son is US
Champion as well.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vmeyer.net/results.html">http://www.vmeyer.net/results.html</a><br>
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Jean-Joseph<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/2013 7:32 PM, Jean-Joseph Cote
wrote:<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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Jean-Joseph<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/19/2013 12:19 PM, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net">lindafowens@netzero.net</a>
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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>
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From: Jim Moskowitz <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:fictionary@swarpa.net">fictionary@swarpa.net</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] YAMEN results<br>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:15:47 -0400<br>
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At 2:15 PM +0000 10/19/13, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net">lindafowens@netzero.net</a>
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>
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<br>
From Elliott's great Introduction to Fictionary, from January
2001:<br>
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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:13:27 -0500 (EST)<br>
From: Elliott A Moreton <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:elliott@linguist.umass.edu"><elliott@linguist.umass.edu></a><br>
Subject: For newbies: Rules, and an example<br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:fictionary@plover.com">fictionary@plover.com</a><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>
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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>
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