Pri: Beaver (ekse Re: skookum)...the humorless need not readthis

[Mike Cleven]

>From: Aron Faegre <faegre at TELEPORT.COM>

>
>Mike Cleven wrote:
>
> > >From: David Robertson <drobert at tincan.tincan.org>
> >
> > >
> > >Na tEmtEm uk "pIldEn kElEkElE" pus "loon"...
> >
> > Ack!  Shows you how far away from home _I_ am; forgotten about the brass
> > spittoon-casting known as a loonie.  I was thinking of the old silver
>dollar
> > with the flying goose on it....
> >
> > MC
>
>To switch subjects slightly: Flying wild goose = Wawa.  [Wewe in Ojibwe] As
>in
>Wawa, Ontario.  That greatly know place where hitch hikers never get out of
>if
>dropped off -- along the NE shore of Lake Superior.  I looked up Wawa the
>other
>day thinking it might be connected to the jargon, but it ain't so.
>


One of the black holes of northern Ontario for hitchhikers; the others being
Ignace-Dryden and Marathon.  In my hitchhiking days I never did get let off
there, thank goodness, although I did have coffee there on a drive across
the country a few years ago.  And yes, there is a big concrete (or whatever
it's made of) giant goose on the edge of town.  Hideous thing, but better
than Sudbury's giant nickel.

MC
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