Chuck Gould wrote:
DSK wrote:
You know, the Eskimos have over 70 words for snow. I wonder
how many different words for "rain" they have in Seattle.


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Just walk into a Starbucks and look at the board with the coffee drink
descriptions.

With that many ways to describe coffee, it has to be about a
bizillion.

Years ago, I narrowly escaped getting lynched in Seattle...
I went to a couple of different shops & street vendors
trying to buy a cup of coffee, and finally in exasperation
said out loud "All I want is a PLAIN CUP OF COFFEE!"

DSK


Times have changed, and most of the coffee snobs are out of business.
Anybody with the facilties to brew traditional coffee does so these
days.
The local Starbucks told me that drip coffee is their number one
seller.

I love drip coffee, but I like it to be made with good coffee, not that
**** in a can like Maxwell House or Folgers.

Poop I am from Canada and our only concern is what to put in our whisky.
What is coffee or this ?? drink lattiee?

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:58:12 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:22:13 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 27 Nov 2006 18:15:07 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I thought it only rained out in Seattle?

~~ snerk ~~

What are you referencing?

Never mind. It's only the solid form of rain. :)

There are at least two solid forms of rain.

Well EEEXXXCCCUUUUUUSEEEEEEE MMMMEEEEE!!!!!

PRECIPITATION....

Rain - Liquid
Drizzle - liquid, light, moves with air currents
Freezing Rain - liquid until hitting a cold surface
Freezing Drizzle - see Freezing Rain
Hail - precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice
Snow - precipitation of white or translucent ice crystals

Thus ends the meteorological portion of this post which relates to
boating because apparently it never snows in the Pacific Northwest
where they boat all year 'round.

Noted. Ignored, but noted.

Ok, I know you live in liberal California so anything can be parsed in
numerous ways, but exactly how to you note something and ignore it at
the same time?

Hmmmmm? :)

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:58:12 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:22:13 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
m...
On 27 Nov 2006 18:15:07 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I thought it only rained out in Seattle?

~~ snerk ~~

What are you referencing?

Never mind. It's only the solid form of rain. :)

There are at least two solid forms of rain.

Well EEEXXXCCCUUUUUUSEEEEEEE MMMMEEEEE!!!!!

PRECIPITATION....

Rain - Liquid
Drizzle - liquid, light, moves with air currents
Freezing Rain - liquid until hitting a cold surface
Freezing Drizzle - see Freezing Rain
Hail - precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice
Snow - precipitation of white or translucent ice crystals

Thus ends the meteorological portion of this post which relates to
boating because apparently it never snows in the Pacific Northwest
where they boat all year 'round.

Noted. Ignored, but noted.

Ok, I know you live in liberal California so anything can be parsed in
numerous ways, but exactly how to you note something and ignore it at
the same time?

Hmmmmm? :)

It's a West Coast thing.

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:00:12 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:45:00 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:54:36 -0500, DSK wrote:

Well, OK, maybe I exaggerate.

Then again, maybe not:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_297.html

And here is a revision of the same issue, including comments
from a native Koniaq Eskimo who calls the Straight Dope
author a dumb redneck (amusing in itself, but unfortunately
she doesn't say how many words for snow there are in her
language)
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010202.html

Skiers have a pretty good snow vocabulary also, e.g.:

dry powder

deep powder

wet powder (an oxymoron)

packed powder

machine made

hard pack

granular

frozen granular

loose granular (corn)

wind blown

wind blown with crust

I'd guess that the inuit have some corresponding terms for all but the
"machine made", and maybe some that I've never encountered.

Do golfers have a corresponding vocabulary for grass?

Enquiring minds (or in my case - empty mind) want to know.

Too high, too fast, too slow, too thick, probably more.

F'n grass?

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:16:37 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

So how many different words do the Eskimos have for snow?

42 - The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything.

Or is that 24? Maybe the answer is dyslexic.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:16:37 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

So how many different words do the Eskimos have for snow?

42 - The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything.
You have the answer to all questions, but you never said they were
correct. grin

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:05:21 GMT, Dry 1 "spots are out "@ Vail's.com
wrote:

Poop I am from Canada and our only concern is what to put in our whisky.

Hockey pucks?

Horse hockey pucks?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:34:42 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:05:21 GMT, Dry 1 "spots are out "@ Vail's.com
wrote:

Poop I am from Canada and our only concern is what to put in our whisky.

Hockey pucks?

LOL! Good one.