OT: A Message From the Rural Midwest

OK. Any idea about the name Usk in Wales? What it means or anything?

Tim Douglass

The older Norwegians in my neck of the midwest like lutefisk around Christmas. Many of us younger ones have had at most one bite. (I had one bite, most of my siblings have had zero.) Lutefisk is a dish made of codfish soaked in lye. IMO the person who invented it either pulled a fabuluous practical joke that no one else got, or was so frugal he'd never throw any food away no matter what had happened to it.

Found this link in another newsgroup. Put down the coffee cup before opening.

On 17 Nov 2003, Mark Jerde spake unto rec.woodworking:

1. Take a shot aquavit.
2. Take two. (They're small.)
3. Put a bit of caviar on a bit of lettuce.
4. Put the lettuce on a cracker.
5. Squeeze some lemon juice on the caviar.
6. Pour some ketchup on the Kit-Kat bar.
7. Tie the dishtowel around your eyes.

If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk. Return to step one.

Brilliant stuff!

All those folks eat herring on the New Year for luck, too. Much tastier!

I can't make sense out of anything in Welsh. But a Google search indicates in was derived from the old English word isca meaning "water".

Just to make things interesting it's actually spelled Wysg in Welsh. But still pronounced about the same. If you want a brain teaser, try driving through Wales and remembering the names you saw in the road sign you just passed.

Beautiful country, nice people, confusing as hell language and use of their alphabet.

Dick

Are we playing 6 degrees of Tom Watson?

Bob

Interesting. That's more than I knew before. I can't say something like that every day, so this is good.

Thanks, Tim Douglass

Try getting off the train here:

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably never happen, by the time the conductor is done announcing it, the train has left the station again. :-)

I went from Tan y Bwlch to Blaenau Ffestiniog and return on the Rheilffordd Ffestiniog Railway on a beautifully restored narrow gauge with Victorian era cars. Nice simple names by comparison. The language doesn't sound at all like it looks. It's rather pleasant sounding and things aren't pronounced at all like we read them.

Dick

Baiting bags???? Where I come from you get locked up for that sort of thing. Of course that was before I moved to North Florida where hunting deer with dogs is legal too.

Dick Durbin

So, clearly keeping those bird populations strong is worth a few thousand cases of human death from malaria each year. Seems a middle ground that values humans over eagles sould be available.

Dave Hall

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:59:36 -0500, Silvan brought forth from the murky depths:

I saw in the newest

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Bob

As they have.

Tim Douglass

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:08:13 GMT, "Bob Schmall" brought forth from the murky depths:

She didn't like my joke and that subtle portion of it passed entirely over her head.

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