<html>Arf and ditto. LInda
<BR><BR>---------- Original Message ----------<BR>From: E Cohen <eac@inbox.com><BR>To: fictionary@swarpa.net<BR>Subject: Re: [Fictionary] SQUOYLE results<BR>Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:30:15 -0400<BR><BR>On 26-Mar-20 16:07, lindafowens@netzero.net wrote:<BR>> I was thinking in my wickiup def about where my brother Bill used to <BR>> live on the Olympic Peninsula: Sequim, pronounced Squim. Linda PS My <BR>> mother in law used to used wickiup for an all-purpose def of any small hut.<BR><BR>I believe "Wickiup!" is the traditional cowboy cry when committing a <BR>change to Wikipedia.<BR><BR>BTW, good wishes for all fictioneers to be safe and well.<BR><BR><BR>> ---------- Original Message ----------<BR>> From: Hutch <hutchinson.jeff@gmail.com><BR>> To: fictionary group <fictionary@swarpa.net><BR>> Subject: Re: [Fictionary] SQUOYLE results<BR>> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:51:38 -0400<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:21 PM eLLioTT morEton <em@swarpa.net <BR>> <mailto:em@swarpa.net>> wrote:<BR>> [snippety]<BR>> Â<BR>> <BR>> Jim:Â Apropos of very little, I once mused about how to calculate the<BR>> shape of the path a squirrel would take if it were trying to climb a<BR>> tree<BR>> quickly while remaining out of sight of a pedestrian walking in a<BR>> straight<BR>> line past the tree. I called the shape a squiral, but didnt actually<BR>> work<BR>> out a formula for it...<BR>> <BR>> I saw a video on YouTube a while back where the guy did work out a <BR>> formula LIKE this one, not identical. I looked for it today, but <BR>> couldn't find it :-(<BR>> [snippety]<BR>> <BR>> ________________________________________________________________________________<BR>> # Hutch<BR>> squoyle -- n. -- (Am. Plains states, especially south central Nebraska)<BR>> correct width of a quarter-section farm field, approx 2,550 to 2,600<BR>> feet.<BR>> (For unscrupulous surveyor: Berwyn M Squoyle, notorious for platting<BR>> approximately 600 square miles over a period of five years with short<BR>> measures in order to sell the "extra" sections for his own benefit;<BR>> murdered in July 1898 outside Ansley, Nebraska).<BR>> <BR>> Pierre: I'm in a metes-and-bounds state, but I had to learn about<BR>> division<BR>> of public<BR>> lands, so I'm pretty sure I'd have heard of this.<BR>> <BR>> Jim:Â Well, it cant be by Elliott, so perhaps David crafted this one?<BR>> Honorable mention.<BR>> <BR>> There's actually a clue hidden in plain sight there. There *is* actually <BR>> a town called Ansley, Nebraska. If you zoom in far enough on Google <BR>> Maps, you will find a few miles outside of Ansley, the town of Berwyn: <BR>> from which I named my villain. :-)<BR>> [snippety]<BR>> BB,<BR>> Hutch<BR>> Â<BR>> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----<BR>> Version: 3.1<BR>> GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$<BR>> N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?<BR>> X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++><BR>> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>-- Eric | eac@inbox.com</html>