====== Lunch Boy ======


===== Recruitment =====

I joined pretty much as a result of attending the [[misc:acpt1998|Stamford Crossword Puzzle Tournament]] 
in 1995. I'd read about //that// in //Games// magzine, but not the NPL. I used to live in the southwest, 
so I never even considered going to Connecticut for the tournament, and once I moved to New York, it didn't 
dawn on me how close Stamford was.

It was mid-1994, I think; I had just recently started writing puzzles at the time, and by some crazy 
coincidence, a theatre friend of mine had brought [[chainsaw|Chainsaw]] along to a party I was at, and 
introduced us via the puzzle connection. [[chainsaw|Chainsaw]] started telling me about the extracurricular 
events at the [[misc:acpt1998|Stamford tournament]], as well as the NPL, and I thought it all sounded sort of intriguing.

So then I went to Stamford, where I fell in with a bad crowd... people who wanted me to stay up all night and eat
sundaes and play charades. I didn't take much convincing. I think [[panther|Panther]] and [[qaqaq|Qaqaq]] struck 
me as the ringleaders at the time, and [[treesong|Treesong]] was there, too, and--oh, wait, someone already made 
a //Wizard of Oz// joke. Anyway, it was one of the best weekends of my life, so I resolved to go to the Portland 
convention, although I didn't actually get around to joining until right before the con. But [[chainsaw]] 
was the original impetus. But [[panther|Panther]] pushed me harder to join, insisting, "You are one of us." Maybe they 
should get co-credit.

**First Issue:** Jul 1995

===== Recruits =====

  * [[mona]]

===== Nom =====

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//Soy sauce from my namesake//


I wanted to find a nom that had some wordplay angle to it, so
I tried anagramming my name. Well, "Francis Heaney" turns out
not to be a very fertile name for transposing, but I did
eventually shuffle it into "A yen franchise". (Mike Morton
recently found "Hey, arsenic fan" as well; if I had found
that one instead, you might be calling me Abigail Brewster.)
What would a yen franchise be, though? A Japanese fast food
restaurant, of course. All that remained was to find an
interestingly-named Japanese fast food place. At a puzzle
gathering in Hoboken organized by [[chainsaw|Chainsaw]] and 
attended by [[tyger|Tyger]] and various non-NPLers, I asked them
for input on the Japanese fast food issue, and [[chainsaw|Chainsaw]] 
thought of "Lunch Boy". The rest is history/silence/none of the above.

==== Combinoms ====

No data.

===== Offices =====

  * Editor of //The Enigma//, 1997 - 1999
  * Vice President, 2001