Conference kaosws::canada

    Excuse my ignorance but could you explain the meaning of Iditerod.
    
    
    Thanks.

< Note 58.1 by DUB01::EGRI >
>>Excuse my ignorance but could you explain the meaning of Iditerod.
    
It's not unlike steeplechase, except instead of riding horses the
participants use pogo-sticks, or as they are properly called 'terra-rods'.
The whole thing is quite hilarious in the flesh, if you can imagine
about 100 idiots bouncing madly up and down, hurtling towards ditches,
walls, barriers and assorted members of the crowd.  Thus, the acronym
'iditerod' was coined for the event, 'idiots-on-terra-rods'.
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Regards,

Pat

p.s. I hope to visit Skibbareen, County Cork soon. Any info?

    
    Hello and thanks for the explanation, I'd love to see one of these
    events live I'd say they're a panic alright.
    
    As far as Skibbereen is concerned it's a small town way down by
    the sea in West Cork. Loads of lovely scenery. The town has really
    put on a big push this year to clean itself up and get more tourists
    in. I've only driven through it on my way to Bantry and it was on
    a Sunday at about 4 PM so the place was abandoned (pubs were closed
    for the HOLY HOUR).
    
    If you need any specfic info about the place and surrounding areas
    let me know exactly what it is you need and I'll get back to you.
    
    Ted.
     

Ted:

	If you saw me note in the 'What's wrong with Canadian'
notesfile, you'll realise that my reply to your request for a
meaning for Iditerod was, to say the least facitious!

	I have checked around Kanata but to no avail - no one
seems to know what it means, sorry for misleading you. 8*)

	Thank you for the info about Skibbareen.  I'll certainly
contact you for further knowledge.

Pat

    Dear Patrick,
    
    That was a brilliant explanation, you sound like you'd make a great
    VMS instructor. But listen up, I don't need your help to make a
    fool of myself I'm managing perfectly well on my own, thank you
    very much.
    
    Appreciate your good (HA!!) intentions.
    
    Nice talking to you.
    
    Ted.

        I can't take it any more... the truth (as I remember it) must be
        told!
        
        The Iditerod is a Sled-Dog Race run every year in Alaska.  It is
        several hundered miles (kilometres?) long and takes many days (> 10
        to complete).  It might be run from Nome to Anchorage.  The last two
        or three years, the race has been won by a women from Alaska.
        
        Garry
        

    	A Sled-Dog race?? That's far too boring!! I munch prefer the
    Idiots on Terra-rods scenario, it sort of reminds me of a four alarm
    fire in an insane asylum..... If you think about it long enough...
    you'll find yourself starting to giggle..... especially if it's
    Friday afternoon!!
    
    Staightjacketly yours,
    
    Glenn 

    Sure, sure Garry! Do you really expect me to believe a "WOMEN" won
    it.
    
    Ted.  (i love Typos)

.8>>Sure, sure Garry! Do you really expect me to believe a "WOMEN" won it.
    
	I do!  Apparently, her dogs used Terra-rods to clear igloos, crevices
and gaggles of cavorting Inuit who were strewn about the course pathway.


Yours in bouncing frigidity,

Himself (Pat)

    Dear Patrick,
    
    You are definitely incorrigible! 
    
    However, I will carry on at my own peril. You are in Kanata. I would
    love to know where Kanata is situated. I read somewhere that Kanata
    is the Indian word from which our great and glorious nation got
    its name. The story goes that when Jacques Cartier stood on a hill
    overlooking what it was he was overlooking at the time (an Indian
    village I suspect) he pointed below and asked his Indian companion,
    Chief Donnacona, "Qu'est ce que, ca la?" (you'll have to excuse
    the grammar I've been away from home for quite awhile). The Indian
    smiled and made a great sweeping gesture, saying "Kanata, Kanata".
    Good Ol' Jacques assumed this to be the name of the surrounding
    country and appropriately called it Canada, not realising that
    Donnacona was telling him that he was looking at "a large group
    of huts (i.e. Kanata)."
    
    Isn't it funny how conquerors or prospective conquerors have a habit
    of totally screwing up the pronunciation of the names of the people
    and places they are about to put under the yoke. You should have
    seen the wife's relations and friends fall around the place whenever
    I mispronounced some of the Irish names.
    
    for instance Mahony is not Ma-hony as in pony Mahoney with the stress
    on Ma, Cahill is not Kay-hill but Kah-hill, and there are loads
    of others.
    
    For more totally useless information you cna contact me at this
    number anytime. I may not be able to get back to you next week because
    I'm on me way to the Galway plant to teach a System Management course.
    
    Listen Patrick when you making your way to SKibbereen wil you stopping
    in Dublin at all, at all? Would love to meet you for a pint or two,
    boy!
    
    Until we spoof again.
    
    All the best,
    
    Ted.
    

    Sorry Pat,
    
    That should read Mah-hunny with the stress on the mah.
    
    Ted
    

    Is Ted still around ? These are very old notes. The best Irish name
    for pronunciation is Siobhan !
    
    I think that it isa terrific name.
    
    Wayne.