After watching this, the best I could come up with was, “Yeah, well I used to take my bike off some sweet jumps. And I could double my friend.”
And I’ve got nothing.
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Iqualuit: Don’t Do It!
In what has to be one of the funniest new stories I’ve heard in quite some time, PM Harper and his people are being poked for mispelling the name of Nunavut’s capital.
Left there, there’s no story to be found. I mean, most of us are guided by an unconsciously applied rule that every Q is followed by a U.
Oh no, friends. Not every Q.
Spelled properly, Iqaluit means “many fish”–an accurate description of the place once called Frobisher Bay. However, add that extra U, and you change the word’s meaning.
Dramatically.
Check that, very dramatically.
Consult your Inuktitut dictionary, and you’ll find that Iqualiut (with the now-famous U) carries this meaning: “People with unwiped bums”.
I must declare truth here: You cannot make this stuff up.
One commentator on the story added this: “It’s not exactly a nice term.” To which I reply, “Thanks. If not for my extensive travel experiences and serious cultural saavy, I might have missed that.”
My take?
It might not be nice, but it sure-as-heckfire (phrase stolen from my buddy Ned) funny!
It also makes me feel fairly pitiful about my mother tongue. As dominant as English may be around the globe, we’ve got nothing. I can’t think of any term with even close to the precision needed to cram a phrase like “people with unwiped bums” into one word.
That’s an art. And that’s the sign of a great language.
And don’t U forget it!
Windy
I biked to work this morning and had to break my one rule: Never gear down.
Today I did, but only one down. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
Heading northwest, it was windy. Turning north, it was worse. I’m hoping it holds up until suppertime, so I can set a world record on the way home.
The painting above is called “A Windy Day in Connemara”. I don’t know where that is, and I don’t claim to have seen large mammals flying by this morning. If you love this one and you want to see more of amazing paintings specifically oil painting, look for 1st Art Gallery Yelp. But if your walls need a bit of “windy colour”, this piece is by Ted Turton.
Riders ’09: Game 6 (BC)
This game happened right before I headed into the bush for a week at camp, so that’s my man-I’m-late-this-time excuse. Here’s what I remember from this game…
- Martell Mallett is a beast of a running back. If his bruising style doesn’t shorten his career, he could be a heck of a player.
- Throwing Jyles in for the 4th–I wasn’t a fan of that move. It wasn’t Durant that was causing us grief, in my opinon.
- Blowing that big lead was tough to take.
- Barron Miles blocking that late convert was an athletic display, for sure.
All in all, being 3-3 after 6 games is about where I thought we’d be. With the West as tight as it is, this was a tough one to lose. But we’re still in the hunt for sure.
And on the season goes…
It’s a Toy!
For our anniversary, we added a new member to the family: The Nikon D5000.
Our first impressions have been nothing but good–and we haven’t yet waded through the big fat instruction booklet. The jump in quality from our previous camera (which was decent as well) to this one is very noticeable.
And with the jump in price that we took, it’s nice to be able to say that!
Happy shooting!