splitting off
May. 20th, 2009 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So I was writing an earlier post that was really not cheerful, and in the midst of it, my sister and boyfriend were having a conversation.
Fi discovered by coincidence that there is a Podunk, NY.
I thought that was hilarious. Which was much needed, given the grim nature of the subject matter of the other post.
Anyway.
So Podunk is in Tompkins County, not far from Ithaca.
Podunk is named for an Indian tribe.
The Podunk, decimated, became amalgamated with several other Algonqian-family tribes, and guess what they called themselves?
The Schaghticoke Indians.
That's my hometown. Ess cee aitch, ay gee aitch, tee eye cee oh kay ee. (I learned to spell it when I was six. There's kind of a sing-song chant. I learned "Rensselaer" in seventh grade under the iron fist of my social studies teacher, who used to give one-word spelling tests as pop quizzes. "Name the county where we live. No partial credit.")
Also "Podunk" apparently means "place where you sink in the muck", or something similar.
The conversation was hilarious. It's not really coming across as hilarious here. But I just wanted to post it in case someday I look back and wonder what the heck was so damn funny.
Fi discovered by coincidence that there is a Podunk, NY.
I thought that was hilarious. Which was much needed, given the grim nature of the subject matter of the other post.
Anyway.
So Podunk is in Tompkins County, not far from Ithaca.
Podunk is named for an Indian tribe.
The Podunk, decimated, became amalgamated with several other Algonqian-family tribes, and guess what they called themselves?
The Schaghticoke Indians.
That's my hometown. Ess cee aitch, ay gee aitch, tee eye cee oh kay ee. (I learned to spell it when I was six. There's kind of a sing-song chant. I learned "Rensselaer" in seventh grade under the iron fist of my social studies teacher, who used to give one-word spelling tests as pop quizzes. "Name the county where we live. No partial credit.")
Also "Podunk" apparently means "place where you sink in the muck", or something similar.
The conversation was hilarious. It's not really coming across as hilarious here. But I just wanted to post it in case someday I look back and wonder what the heck was so damn funny.
