In a message dated 6/9/2006 9:27:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
Ralph:
 
 I wouldn't mind vacationing in KY, but what's a "yurt"?
 
Huh What?
Some sort of hut, I believe originally constructed (loosely speaking) and occupied by Mongolians, and probably circular in plan.  They are one step up, or maybe down, from mud huts and the kinds of forts you used to build as a kid.
 
Imported to the US of A, no doubt by hippies and similar tree-hugging countercultural types who would rather live in such a....thing, than in an actual building with floors, walls, a watertight roof, and (intentionally) running water.  
 
Ex-Mrs-Ralph went to stay with her sister (Janet from Another Planet) in such a device many years ago (before she had the good fortune to become Mrs Ralph), and nearly broke her leg trying to take a whiz outdoors in the dark.  Maybe it would've been better for me if she had.
 
What, me bitter?
 
Ralph
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