Geographic Handle - Beyond Tiki

G Gigantalope Member Shinola, California Joined: Aug 01, 2004 Posts: 913	G Gigantalope Posted posted on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:52 PM Trying to recall my visit to BC and strange names, wasn't Vancouver once named "Gastown"? Too bad that didn't stick, as that could have been the source of some truly inspiring names...I think it was George Vancouver, who was (as ZebraTiki will point out ) of Dutch ancestry, but born in England and the navigator on the voyages of James Cook...who first delivered Tiki to the Old World?" Full circle we've come. Humuhumu, just as DawnTiki might call a rattlesnake in the yard a "Buzzworm"...In some of Farley Mowat's books he refers to ptarmigans as "Snow Chickens", I think it's a local colloquialism, but I never would have thought of it until you mentioned it. The Plains Indians called cattle "Slow Elk", that's one I love.

Trying to recall my visit to BC and strange names, wasn't Vancouver once named "Gastown"?

Too bad that didn't stick, as that could have been the source of some truly inspiring names...I think it was George Vancouver, who was (as ZebraTiki will point out ) of Dutch ancestry, but born in England and the navigator on the voyages of James Cook...who first delivered Tiki to the Old World?" Full circle we've come.

Humuhumu, just as DawnTiki might call a rattlesnake in the yard a "Buzzworm"...In some of Farley Mowat's books he refers to ptarmigans as "Snow Chickens", I think it's a local colloquialism, but I never would have thought of it until you mentioned it.

The Plains Indians called cattle "Slow Elk", that's one I love.

Post #121699 by Gigantalope on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:52 PM