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Key Tourist-Attracting Quote: American Indian mothers used to tell children that a snake monster in the lake would yank them under water if they came close, LaLande said.
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I guess Loch Ness was already taken.
Posted by: pogo | October 24, 2008 at 09:19 AM
And when Indian kids wouldn't eat their maize, they were scolded and told about the starving children in Europe who didn't have any maize, and who, even if they did, would have to call it "corn."
Posted by: Lairbo | October 24, 2008 at 09:21 AM
The word "squaw" means "young woman" in some native languages but it took on a derogatory connotation...
As if "Snake Monster" won't????
Posted by: frodolives | October 24, 2008 at 09:32 AM
In related news, my company has now renamed itself: Snake Monster, Inc.
Posted by: eilbeback | October 24, 2008 at 09:47 AM
Yes, pogo...so was "Boogeyman Lake"
Posted by: Siouxie | October 24, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I still prefer Lake Titicaca
Posted by: Erb's Point | October 24, 2008 at 10:30 AM
"The word "squaw" means "young woman" in some native languages but it took on a derogatory connotation..."
In other native languages, the word "squaw" means "high energy collider", but they discovered it hadn't been invented yet and the word fell into disuse.
Posted by: pogo | October 24, 2008 at 10:36 AM
I just wanted everyone to know that I voted this morning. I wrote in Dave Barry for President.
Posted by: Katie in FL | October 24, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Well, I guess that's one sick way to keep your children from drowning.
Posted by: Margaritaville | October 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM
I much prefer the "you'll drown if you swim within 30 minutes of eating" that my generation was told.
Posted by: Cheryl Howard | October 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Yaabut is it the giant invincible variety?
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves ‹(•¿•)› | October 24, 2008 at 01:15 PM
I remember we were in Colorado once and came across a lake called "Lost Lake."
I wanted to alert the media to let them know we found the sucker, but my girlfriend said I was being an idiot....
Posted by: Clark Kent | October 24, 2008 at 03:41 PM
Clark--we have about a
millionlot of Lost Lakes in Oregon.Posted by: Cheryl Howard | October 24, 2008 at 06:24 PM
"Squaw" is derogatory, so let's change the name? More like "politically correct" is derogatory, so instead let's call it "hyper-sensitive pile of doodoo."
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 24, 2008 at 06:52 PM
How about that -- they named a lake after me!
Posted by: MartiniShark | October 24, 2008 at 10:40 PM
MS is a hyper-sensitive pile of doodoo?
Who else knew this?
Posted by: Cheryl Howard | October 25, 2008 at 12:25 AM
Pretty much everyone, Cheryl.
Posted by: MartiniShark | October 25, 2008 at 10:19 AM