I guess he's busy, or away. Am I surprised? ;) How does he know these things, I wonder?
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I guess he's busy, or away. Am I surprised? ;) How does he know these things, I wonder?
No I'm not away but I am busy. No you shouldn't be surprised...........and I knew the answer because I sold six portable cabins to a company working on the international airport there :D
How's your crow? Been anywhere nice lately? Perhaps he'd like to tell us about it?
............or perhaps someone else has a question because I haven't :dozey:
Well that little tidbit took the piss right out of me! :D As for Edgar, I haven't a clue what he's been up to and after my last encounter with the fellow I have, quite frankly, lost a lot of respect for him. :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by CarlMetro
I don't have a question at hand, but I promise I'll try to come up with something. Anyone else is more than welcome to beat me to the punch though!
Alrighty, I had this one ready :p :
What are raskols (spelling is correct) and where would you find them?
Ummm valleys in scandinavia?
Bad boys of Papua and New Guinea, not to be messed with........... voilent thugs and gang members.
Cossie's got it right, your question :up:
Ok, here goes... In what part of the world would you find a GRIOT and what are they?
West Africa, and they are poets are they not?
Yep, well done, they were originally Poets and Musicians in Royal Courts in West Africa, your turn Mark.
Since we are on cultural icons and references, I will draw one in that relates to Geography.
What is an Inukshuk and what was/is its purpose?
Every Canadian should know that one. My wife built a tiny one in one of our flowerbeds out of paving stones we had left over from when we redid our sidewalk.
yes First gear, but describe it and tell the people out there what its purpose was for?
That's a good one, but I guess you should allow non-Canadians to have a shot at it! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Tin, I was hoping you and Schmenke would let the others have a go. Still, no one has actually described what it is and what looks like. Firstgear says his wife makes one, but I want what it was used for and what is the cultural meaning of it. Someone in Germany has no clue of what the hell I am talking about....
From your clues, I'm going to say that it's a little statue that brings people luck
Is it a shelter for passing garden gnomes?
No...and....No....
I just saw a life-sized Inukshuk on the Golf Course at Radium.
Saw dozens of them on a drive near Georgian Bay this year, too.
An outdoor toilet?
There's one at MEC on 10th Ave. and 8th St. :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by edv
Is it a big pile of rocks, balancing on top of each other? I am thinking of a post card I once got from Canada (sp: Nunavit?) of a such a structure??
Caroline, you are 50% of the way there...and in the interest of having another question in there, I will give the rest to you.
It is a pile of rocks arranged as if it was a little man, or stone figure. In Innuit, it means "Stone Person" and the Innuit in the Arctic put them up as markers to guide them back to their camps/settlements (since they were nomads, how much was just favourite valleys to set up shop in is a question) or to lead them along a route between one location and other.
The symbol of the 2012 Vancouver Olympics is a stylized Inukshuk, which is kind of sad really, because with the vibrant West Coast native culture of totem poles, I think some art work from that style would have been much more appropriate and local than the Inukshuk, which exists in Nunavut and the Northwest Terrortories in the Arctic Archipeligo. It isn't a woodland thing or a mountain thing, it is a barrenlands necessity.
So go ahead Caroline...put up a nice question to have us all tormented!
I would add that there is a language associated to them: different arrangements mean different things, like "water that way", or "settlement nearby", etc.
When you drive along the Trans Canada highway in Ontario you can see a lot of them at the side of the road. But my Inuit friends have told me that they are wrong, in the sense that they mean nothing (i.e. they have not being laid down by Inuit).
"Next rest stop 100kms."Quote:
Originally Posted by tinchote
the Inuit are the true founders of it. We in the rest of Canada just like glomming onto the idea for fun, but for those guys lost in a snowstorm or stumbling around in the near dark of winter, they could save their lives.....just by letting the people know they were heading the right way.
Anyhow, Caroline, the honour is yours.....
Thanks. Can't promise a nice question though ;)
Ok, the Casamance River flows into the Atlantic, but which country does it flow through on its journey?
I'll take a stab and say somewhere in North Africa?
Hmm....'somewhere'? I like your style. More specific than 'anywhere' yet slightly ambiguous and intriguing.
PS. Stabbing is dangerous.
Morocco?
Sorry Carl, not Morocco.
Mauritania?
Nope :)
hhhmmmm, I'll say Portugal.
Sorry, guess again :)
So with 'casa' am I right in thinking the area was formally Spanish/Portugese?
The Atlantic is a big ocean, any more clues to narrow it down? :D
Oooh I am too mean to give out any clues so early on. Except to say that Portugal did have a trade interest in this country.
Another guess, Angola?