Eulachons (don't read if you're offended by jokes about God)

[Mike Cleven]

>From: David Robertson <drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG>
>
>LhaXayEm,
>
>I had a wonderful facetious response composed, and some mysterious agency
>caused my computer to shut down and lose the entire message!  <+>
>
>It boiled down (get it?) to the following connections being drawn:
>
>			eulachon
>			|      |
>			|      |
>			|      |
>		salvation      hooligan
>		|                     |
>		lEkalisti      tamanous
>			|      |
>			|      |
>			|      |
>			|      |
>			|      |
>			Sisi Kli
>
>BTW, I reckon you could carry 5,000 eulachons around pretty easily, just
>in case you ran into some hungry people.  Doesn't the Church of Jesus
>Christ of Latter-Day Saints say that he was in these parts?  There is no
>evidence that he preached in ChInuk, however.

Think you mean "He"; and the idea that Chinook is 2000 or so years old is
interesting in itself.

Legend from the valley I'm from, quoted before: "a long time ago someone
came through the valley who was so good, people said he was God".  Mind you,
that could have been Gautama Buddha, too....

M

PS pity the Mormons didn't beat the Oblates to the valley, in a way....

M
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