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We have cows, beer, and deep fried cheese curds, often handed to you by retirees in undersized paper hats.
But only in the summer, otherwise it's cold as f~%@, still got the beer, cows (they're incredibly warm to cuddle with on a cold winter's night) and cheese curds, but they're usually reached by midnight drunken snowmobile forays, lousy with whitetail deer.
Aranna |
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When I was in college a bunch of friends and I drove into Wisconsin from the UP of Michigan. Because compared to the UP, Wisconsin is a glowing beacon of modern civilization... and we wanted to watch a current movie and that was the closest place with a modern theater and a shopping mall. Apparently they use hay to winter proof the roads in northern Wisconsin instead of salt. And I had never seen SO MANY deer in my life. Whole herds just standing in the road munching on the hay. And they weren't about to give up their spots to some cars, we had to bump and swerve our way past them all at super slow speeds. It was just crazy.
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Set wrote:No relation to 'Old' Hampshire, wherever the hell that is.Hampshire, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom: county. The "bit in the middle, right at the bottom". Known for... being in the middle, right at the bottom, and thus not being too close to London to be all swanky, nor too close to Cornwall to think that it's not actually part of England, nor too close to Birmingham to "talk loik this". May contain nuts.
And birthplace of the legendary Troggs.
Cole Deschain |
snowmobile
*Eyebrow twitch*
Just another part of the linguistic gulf between Alaska and the rest of the world, just another part of the linguistic gulf between Alaska and the rest of the world, just another part of the linguistic gulf between Alaska and the rest of the world...
Cole Deschain |
What do you call them? "Moose-equalizers?"
Snowmachines.
Because they are not toys.[/indignant nostril-flared snorting]
And, I suspect, because in the early days, they weren't competing in the popular imagination with snow-making equipment at ski areas... but yeah.
May have to go make a "How to speak Alaskan" primer somewhere around here...
David M Mallon |
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I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:What do you call them? "Moose-equalizers?"Snowmachines.
Because they are not toys.[/indignant nostril-flared snorting]
And, I suspect, because in the early days, they weren't competing in the popular imagination with snow-making equipment at ski areas... but yeah.
May have to go make a "How to speak Alaskan" primer somewhere around here...
Up where I'm originally from (New York's eastern Adirondacks), they're "sleds," or, less commonly "rigs" or "skids." They don't much go for multi-syllable words in the Champlain Valley.
Cole Deschain |
Up where I'm originally from (New York's eastern Adirondacks), they're "sleds," or, less commonly "rigs" or "skids." They don't much go for multi-syllable words in the Champlain Valley.
"Rig," "sled," and "ride" are acceptable up here in a way "Snowmobile" is not.
What is "Alaskan for Beer?"
As one of the fifty United States?
Beer is of wildly varying quality- we have some pretty decent local breweries and microbreweries, but we run the gamut from godawful homebrew in nominally dry villages all the way to vast stacks of Bud Lite cans accruing in homes in more settled communities...
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
Come Mr. Tally-man, tally me Paizo!:
USA...
-...But Not Particularly Happy About It: 5
-...But Refuses to Admit It: 3
-...But a Suspected Secessionist: 2
-...Bordering On Our Resource-Rich But Disaster-Prone TMI Territory: 8
-...And Maybe a Bit Too Enthusiastic About It: 7
-...And Suspiciously Taciturn About It: 3
-...But Not For Much Longer: 2
-...True-Blue, Red-Blooded, White-Hat Citizens Remaining: 11
-...in Sum Total: 41
Denmark: 2
UK (modern fantasy's loyal homeland): 16
Poland: 2
South Africa: 1
Italy (if you ever miraculously find a black-and-white composition notebook with better-than-pedestrian-quality drawings, cartoons, and notes, all in English, that looks like it might be about 18 years old, somewhere around there, let me know): 2
Australia: 5
Sweden: 2
Canada (C'mon, Tiny little Britain's got you beat by more than double!): 7
UAE: 1
Germany: 4
France: 4
New Zealand Middle-Earth: 4
Egypt: 1
Finland (And it's dark too?!? Wish I was there!): 2
The Netherlands: 2
Mexico: 2
Chile (not so much a country as a vertebral column for a continent): 1
The Action Figure Homeworld Taiwan: 1
Thpain: 1
Israel (Please clear the runway!): 1
Argentina: 1
aeglos |
It's not just the Anglo-Saxons, we're calling the place 'Bawaria'. Also, we're calling Aachen 'Akwizgran' and Koeln is 'Kolonia' while Kiel is 'Kilonia', because we could.
Köln, Cologne, Colonia, Kolonia are all coming from the original roman name of that city: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (city rights since 50AC)
as the people there like to sing: Viva Colonia
aeglos |
Gorbacz wrote:It's not just the Anglo-Saxons, we're calling the place 'Bawaria'. Also, we're calling Aachen 'Akwizgran' and Koeln is 'Kolonia' while Kiel is 'Kilonia', because we could.Köln, Cologne, Colonia, Kolonia are all coming from the original roman name of that city: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (city rights since 50AC)
as the people there like to sing: Viva Colonia
Aachen/Akwizgran in latin: Aquisgranum
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David M Mallon |
David M Mallon wrote:Update #6David M Mallon wrote:Update #5David M Mallon wrote:Update #4David M Mallon wrote:Update #3David M Mallon wrote:Update #2David M Mallon wrote:Current map of locations, according to best information availableUpdated
Update #7
Kajehase |
Chemlak wrote:And birthplace of the legendary Troggs.Set wrote:No relation to 'Old' Hampshire, wherever the hell that is.Hampshire, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom: county. The "bit in the middle, right at the bottom". Known for... being in the middle, right at the bottom, and thus not being too close to London to be all swanky, nor too close to Cornwall to think that it's not actually part of England, nor too close to Birmingham to "talk loik this". May contain nuts.
If given the opportunity, ask my dad how he saved their lives.
Nutcase Entertainment |
I'm just going by what the Ski-Doo ads call them, I've never actually ridden one, but they are always parked at the various country bars littering the landscape.
Here in Quebec, we tend to just call them Ski-Doo, even if they have a proper nomanclature.
@ Cole Deschain: Snow Machine, Snow Mobile, Snow Bike... I think snow machine might be used more for the Van/mini-Van version.
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David M Mallon wrote:Current map of locations, according to best information availableUpdate #7
That looks like a Cold War Era map of where the strategic first strike nuclear warheads will hit.
Compared to the mess we have to deal with these days, I miss the Cold War.
Drejk |
David M Mallon wrote:David M Mallon wrote:Current map of locations, according to best information availableUpdate #7That looks like a Cold War Era map of where the strategic first strike nuclear warheads will hit.
Compared to the mess we have to deal with these days, I miss the Cold War.
You know, just for the record, almost certainly a strategic target for Cold Era NATO nuclear strike is about half an hour of walk from where I live... For about a decade I was living at the edge of big target sign for nukes.
A second nuclear target, and explicitly confirmed on released list from 1954/59, was about 40 minutes of walk to the west - an old airfield strip, though it was abandoned by my times and quite probably off the newer lists by the eighties.
Kajehase |
Gorbacz wrote:Shouldn't we break the UK down into whisky producing regions and the shoddy everything else? ;-)Kajehase wrote:UK:
Pop-and-football-country (Basically Yorkshire + Lancashire + Northumbria)
I can't believe you just linked Yorkshire with Lancashire.
How could you? You monster.
Given that I'd already put east and west Yorkshire in the same category I figured I could just keep going :p
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
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USA...
-...But Not Particularly Happy About It: 5
-...But Refuses to Admit It: 3
-...But a Suspected Secessionist: 2
-...Bordering On Our Resource-Rich But Disaster-Prone TMI Territory: 9
-...And Maybe a Bit Too Enthusiastic About It: 7
-...And Suspiciously Taciturn About It: 3
-...But Not For Much Longer: 3
-...True-Blue, Red-Blooded, White-Hat Citizens Remaining: 12
-...in Sum Total: 44
Hamletopia Denmark: 2
UK (modern fantasy's loyal homeland): 17
Poland: 2
South Africa: 1
Italy (if you ever miraculously find a black-and-white composition notebook with better-than-pedestrian-quality drawings, cartoons, and notes, all in English, that looks like it might be about 18 years old, somewhere around there, let me know): 2
Australia F***EN 'STRAYA!: 6
Sweden: 2
Canada (C'mon, Australia's got you nearly equaled!): 7
UAE: 1
Germany Ken: 4
France Ryu: 4
New Zealand Middle-Earth: 4
Osirion Egypt: 1
Finland: 2
The Netherlands: 2
Mexico: 2
Chile (not so much a country as a vertebral column for a continent): 1
Planet of the Action Figures Taiwan: 1
Thpain: 1
Israel (Please clear the runway!): 1
Argentina: 1
Norway (Scandinavia: Each Sold Separately. Collect The Whole Set!): 1