Free Association Thread 4

[Handley_Page]

I'm sure that there's a word meaning when the listener hasn't got a scooby what's going on - or being said.
It's embarrassing

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Well, I always understood The Haudenosaunee were matrileneal. Women owned the land and a man moved into her longhouse when a couple married. I'd say that was soemewhat unusual, though I seemed to have continued that tradition.

Matrilineal, yes, and the women "owned" the fields and produce. Men stayed resident in their mother' longhouses, though, and only visited their wives. He'd keep some of his belongings at her longhouse, and, if his wife wanted to get rid of him, she'd leave his things outside, and he'd know not to come back.

Council representatives were males, but they were selected from the matrilineage by the senior women. If a rep didn't argue for what the women thought right, the women would replace him.

Captured settler women were generally adopted into a matrilineage to "replace" a member who had died. As adoptees, they became full members of the lineage, clan, tribe, and village, sharing in the ownership of the fields and the longhouse. If, as sometimes happened, a settlers' rescue party would come to free a woman from her heathen captivity and return her to the "freedom" of being her husband's or father's chattel, the woman, for some strange reason, would commonly refuse to return to "civilization."

 

[JKendallDane]

I've always enjoyed Tony Hillerman's Navajo-based detective novels. They usually had a nice chunk of mystery and drama with a good dose of Native American history and education in them.

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[L1tTleD1fferent]

I've always enjoyed Tony Hillerman's Navajo-based detective novels. They usually had a nice chunk of mystery and drama with a good dose of Native American history and education in them.

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I have Navajo idea who that is, but he scooby a very good writer.

 

[Handley_Page]

I have Navajo idea who that is, but he scooby a very good writer.

Please translate.
Round here, "scooby" comes from Scooby Do", the rhyming slang for "Ain't got a clue."
So, "I don't know" can emerge as "I ain't got a Scooby".

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I've always enjoyed Tony Hillerman's Navajo-based detective novels. They usually had a nice chunk of mystery and drama with a good dose of Native American history and education in them.

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If you want a lighter, humorous take on the Indian Detective, try DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather (Thomas King). King can be quite serious; his Massey Lectures and his latest, The Inconvenient Indian, are highly insightful. He played the "token white man" on the CBC radio comedy show "Dead Dog Cafe" when it ran."

 

[MichaelinChina]

If you want a lighter, humorous take on the Indian Detective, try DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather (Thomas King). King can be quite serious; his Massey Lectures and his latest, The Inconvenient Indian, are highly insightful. He played the "token white man" on the CBC radio comedy show "Dead Dog Cafe" when it ran."

Hard Rock Cafe

 

[JKendallDane]

Hard Rock Cafe

Whistle Stop Cafe

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[Tio_Narratore]

Whistle Stop Cafe

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Sacher Café, Wien

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Please translate.
Round here, "scooby" comes from Scooby Do", the rhyming slang for "Ain't got a clue."
So, "I don't know" can emerge as "I ain't got a Scooby".

Don't ask for translation when giving one. Also, don't call oneself English when you don't speak the language popularly known as that. ("Cockney" is ironically a pain in the other end.)

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Don't ask for translation when giving one. Also, don't call oneself English when you don't speak the language popularly known as that. ("Cockney" is ironically a pain in the other end.)

He asked for a translation of how you meant the word, offering the meaning of it he knew so that you would understand why he was asking.

Your non-sequitur insult, by the way, is uncalled for and untrue. We have treated you reasonably on this board, unlike at least one other which is listing those who say they've put you on "ignore." There is no reason to disparage those who are welcoming.

 

[JKendallDane]

Sacher Café, Wien

The coffee shops of Amsterdam

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[SamScribble]

The coffee shops of Amsterdam

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Tulips From Amsterdam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsq6flck2A

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

He asked for a translation of how you meant the word, offering the meaning of it he knew so that you would understand why he was asking.

Your non-sequitur insult, by the way, is uncalled for and untrue. We have treated you reasonably on this board, unlike at least one other which is listing those who say they've put you on "ignore." There is no reason to disparage those who are welcoming.

I was using the word not based on any widespread meaning, but for an obvious pun, so there was no need for any type of translation.

My so-called "insult", by the way, is very true. What is not is your description of how I have been treated "on this board, unlike at least one other" which is a reference to members who are also on this same board.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I was using the word not based on any widespread meaning, but for an obvious pun, so there was no need for any type of translation.

My so-called "insult", by the way, is very true. What is not is your description of how I have been treated "on this board, unlike at least one other" which is a reference to members who are also on this same board.

And on what basis would you aver that your statement about HP not being English is true?

 

[JKendallDane]

Since I have traded items via international snail mail with HP, I can not only attest to the fact that he is indeed English but a fine English gentleman at that.

Your comment was uncalled for and out of line, LD.

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[L1tTleD1fferent]

Since I have traded items via international snail mail with HP, I can not only attest to the fact that he is indeed English but a fine English gentleman at that.

Your comment was uncalled for and out of line, LD.

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Never said he wasn't, nor said anything that was anything you describe my comment as being.

 

[JKendallDane]

Tulips From Amsterdam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsq6flck2A

A rose by any other name...

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[L1tTleD1fferent]

A rose by any other name...

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Would sound like AC-DC.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Would sound like AC-DC.

The Night That the Lights Went Out in Georgia. Yeah, surprised we haven't had rolling blackouts yet.

 

[SilenceDances]

The Night That the Lights Went Out in Georgia. Yeah, surprised we haven't had rolling blackouts yet.

We've had blackouts here recently. One night my town had no traffic lights for a few hours. I went down to the main street to see if the bar was still going to host my favorite local band. They weren't even open, so I spent a minute watching the drivers be irresponsible. It was strange, sitting in a pitch black town, watching cars drive too fast.

 

[MagicaPractica]

We've had blackouts here recently. One night my town had no traffic lights for a few hours. I went down to the main street to see if the bar was still going to host my favorite local band. They weren't even open, so I spent a minute watching the drivers be irresponsible. It was strange, sitting in a pitch black town, watching cars drive too fast.

That last line is a politically fascinating image. More mundane,it makes me think of sitting on the front porch after midnight during an oppressively hot summer, watching heat lightning on the horizon.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

That last line is a politically fascinating image. More mundane,it makes me think of sitting on the front porch after midnight during an oppressively hot summer, watching heat lightning on the horizon.

St. Elmo's Fire

 

[MagicaPractica]

St. Elmo's Fire

Wow, even after all these years, that song starts right up in my head, though I never saw the movie.

 

[JKendallDane]

Wow, even after all these years, that song starts right up in my head, though I never saw the movie.

Half the reason I became a writer is to be able to claim the voice I keep hearing in my head is just the Muse speaking to me.

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