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Post by fred on Feb 6, 2008 21:07:56 GMT -6
Broken Dipstick--
Is that straight? I mean I know Kamikaze is "Divine Wind"... but the rest?
Or are you blowin' smoke?
Best wishes, Windy
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Post by BrokenSword on Feb 6, 2008 21:18:48 GMT -6
ME? Straight dope Diwee - its a storm (typhoon I think) very rare as it comes totally out of its season. Saved Japan when it sank Gengis Khan's invasion fleet in the way back time. M
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Post by harpskiddie on Feb 6, 2008 21:37:15 GMT -6
That's why it was called Divine Wind - sent by the Gods.
Emily: I fell on MY triple axel once - still hurts when one of them Alberta whatchamacallits drifts west.
Gordie MC mistral catcher
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Post by BrokenSword on Feb 6, 2008 21:39:21 GMT -6
...and you can add the fabled 'Noreaster', "ARRR Maties, we're in for a blow now."
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Post by Tricia on Feb 6, 2008 22:07:33 GMT -6
Fred--
His actual name is Rice Leyton McLean, cousin-relative to Wilmer McLean of Manassas Junction, VA, shoulda been West Point Class of 62 ... and ya never know; maybe he'll resurrect himself from the best unwritten parts of Book Two ...
--t.
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Post by Tricia on Feb 6, 2008 22:09:50 GMT -6
There is also some crazy wind that blows south from Scotland and into the Hill Country. Perhaps the Lady Elisabeth can recall its name.
Regards Leyton McLean Lower Virginia
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Post by Tricia on Feb 6, 2008 22:14:12 GMT -6
And to think ... Cousin Emily can only do a half-Wally, which is probably better than ... well, never mind.
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Post by elisabeth on Feb 7, 2008 1:37:11 GMT -6
No idea about the Scottish wind, I'm afraid. The best I can do is another Scottish weather condition: the haar. That's a sea mist. Nice word, isn't it?
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Post by alfuso on Feb 7, 2008 4:20:06 GMT -6
left out my favorite
"Haboob" - a lenticular dust storm in Arabia
alfuso
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Post by BrokenSword on Feb 7, 2008 7:15:50 GMT -6
I guess I missed the whole Leyton McLean caper. My sense is that ya' gotta get up pretty early to put one over on Fireman's Mate 2nd Class Fast Freddie. Most days anyway.
That Scottish wind 'thing' is ringing faintly in the back of my head somewhere too but can't pin it down. I kinda get into names too Fred. Sarted a thread somewhere to try and get a list containing some odd-ball names out West in the US. Didn't get terribly far.
There's an Aussie or two floating in and out here - the Aussie's always add their own flavor to names of things like this.
If the Ouzo Kid's straw wasn't frozen to his lips he might have added the 'Sugar Snow' from his neck of the woods. Can't remember the exact definition, but it has to do with the sap for syrup and when its drawn and gathered.
M
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Post by fred on Feb 7, 2008 8:24:04 GMT -6
Elisabeth and alfuso--
Thanks. They have been added to my list.
Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by crzhrs on Feb 7, 2008 8:47:11 GMT -6
And then there is the little known wind that saved the Itaruri people from their enemies.
Roughly translated it is: They farted . . . we detected them . . . then we defeated them.
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Post by harpskiddie on Feb 7, 2008 11:40:10 GMT -6
Personally, I like lamb haboobs, or chicken or giant shrimp [is that an oxymoron - let's start a board for oxymorons. Is an oxymoron a stupid person who drinks Oxo?].
What is the original Itarurian for that, horse? I only know two of the forty-seven Itarurian dialects; but I have a wealth of Itaruriarianisms, such as "Feed Sleeping Dogs Pie" and the justly famous "Only Eat The Holes In Swiss Cheese."
Gordie MC
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Post by crzhrs on Feb 7, 2008 12:26:09 GMT -6
Or what's a donut without a hole?
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Post by BrokenSword on Feb 7, 2008 12:58:36 GMT -6
....and what's a hole without a donut? It would appear to be nothing at all.
M
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