All my engineers are up on the roof looking at the Blue Angels buzzing the city.
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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement
jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
morons...
I used to take a Thurs or Friday off and watch them practice for their weekend Memorial day show. Less people to compete with.
Cheers
Yeah, Fred, people who enjoy life are really dumb.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Columbus day should be abolished, it's an atrocity to memorialize that individual.
Gosh, Fred, how do you manage to stay so relentlessly cheerful?
Here in SF, this coming Monday will be Italian Heritage Day. In Berkeley, it's Indigenous Peoples Day.
I'm sure that will make you even happier.
(I wonder if the Native Americans ever called themselves "Peoples.")
I've got to admit that there is some mighty good Veal Marsala around. I ask for extra sauce. And Sacripantina is about the best thing anyone ever put into their mouth.
Veal should be outlawed...
And so should fred.blobbs.
Many ( perhaps most?) just called themselves The People, if they lived in sparsely settled areas.
Sacripantina is a terrifying name :) Makes me think of "From Dusk 'Til Dawn".
-- Les Cargill
"Lakota" meant "the people."
Other tribes called them "enemy" because they were the most bellicose bastards around.
I dunno - the Commanche were pretty hard to deal with. They didn't overlap geographically much with any of the Sioux, so it's hard to really say.
"Commanche" is the Ute name for them - "enemy". Pretty hardcore folks.
-- Les Cargill
afaiu, inuit and yupik also means "the people"/"real people"
-Lasse
I am told that the Navajo call themselves "Dine'", which means "people" or "the people".
I've also heard (possibly not 100% seriously) that European people only got "accurate" names of tribes from the first few tribes they encountered, on the East Coast. When they asked people from those tribes about the next tribe to the west, they got a response meaning "oh, *THOSE* assholes", and took those words to be the actual name.
Matt Roberds
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