jt1stcav Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Ahh yes...being in a drunken stupour for days on end on Bourbon Street with a gazillion breastuses flashing before your stinging, tired eyes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMcD Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Regarding my name . . . I was named for my maternal grandfather . . . William Gilroy. So I got his nickname, too. He passed away before I was born. However some people have reported we have similar personalities and interests. He was a compulsive tinkerer. Gil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Ranger, Great translations,just stop droping bombs on Canadian soldiers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerSix Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 ---------------- On 1/16/2003 9:49:51 AM TheEAR wrote: Ranger, Great translations,just stop droping bombs on Canadian soldiers. ---------------- Yes, I agree. Very unfortunate accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Palm Posted January 16, 2003 Author Share Posted January 16, 2003 Canadian soldiers should not practice at night with live ammo in a war zone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Let's not start something guys. Yes, a terribly, tragic accident. But it is in the past. In the future there will hopefully be a better line of communication. Ok, back to correcting LonePalm's French Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Palm Posted January 16, 2003 Author Share Posted January 16, 2003 While we're at it lets correct Builder's geography. Baton Rouge is on the Mississippi not the Red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 While we are at it How does, do, tha gardens grow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Palm Posted January 16, 2003 Author Share Posted January 16, 2003 I think Cockel Shells have something to do with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornEd Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 Sorry Andy, the Red River's closer to Arkansas and the Red Schtick quite possibly a tree. Here's the scoop from the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. "The area's first permanent European settlement was founded in 1699 when French-Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne (Sieur d'Iberville) organized the first colony here. Legend has it that Iberville and his explorers discovered a tall, blood-stained cypress tree on the riverbank that marked the hunting territory of two Native American tribes. As a result, they later christened the area Baton Rouge, or "red stick." The actual site of this "baton rouge" (or "istrouma," in Native American dialect), is located at what today is the campus of Southern University." And Southern University is on the banks of the mighty Mississippi in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. =HornEd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDBRbuilder Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 OOPS...sorry bout the Red River thing...of course I know red stick is on the Mississippi...LOL!...south of where the Red River dumps into the Mississippi...LOL! Either way...my understanding was the "red stick" denoted tribal fishing rights due to previous bloodshed in conflicts there when the river was down due to drought conditions and made the fishing for sustainance during those times likely to lead to bloodshed between the tribal groups on either side of the river at that point...IOW...a boundary beyond which members of the tribes were in the other tribes' territory and had BEST not be fishing. The story was passed down a few generations to me...so it could likely have yet again been bastardized in the telling...my paternal GGgrandmother was a direct full-blooded surviving descendant of the tribe on the east side of the river there...and was fluent in her native tongue, French, AND English...pretty damned good "deal" for a wife for my namesake as he wandered through Louisiana up into southwest Arkansas in the 1840's with his new wife...yep...good ole Scot/native American blood here!! LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flason Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 Lone Palm, Get some good pictures as you toss the beads and share them with your friends. I was down in the Keys during Fantasy Fest and the place was insane. It was like a Girls Gone Wild video from Sloppy Joe's up to the Hard Rock Cafe'. It was a freak show further up Duvall and I'm just not into that kind of Jerry Springer thing, if you know what I mean. When I was in Nawleans last year I went to a great restaurant at the end of Bourbon St. It's called the Redfish and it has some of the best gumbo I have ever had. Anyway, have fun and don't get caught on one of those Cops from New Orleans specials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDBRbuilder Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 In the understanding of how the term "Acadien", in French (Acadian, in English-spelling) became "Cajun", one may draw certain parallels to how the Pennsylvania "Deutsche" came to be called "Dutch" by their English-speaking neighbors over time...even adopting the "bastardized" version of this when speaking of themselves in the language of the "English". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Palm Posted January 25, 2003 Author Share Posted January 25, 2003 French = Creole Spanish = Tex Mex English = American Ain't this a great Melting Pot of a country! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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