There are similar instances in Panama (J August Richards is ex-Jamaican that way)--a lot of Caribbean folk went over to help build the canal. I understand we may have relatives in Panama. Both my grandfathers went over to build, but they came back.
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2006 9:34:25 am PDT #915 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy HP - Aug 17, 2006 9:37:31 am PDT #916 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
someone had told everyone to wear condoms,
I tried, but it wouldn't fit over my elbow.
Jars - Aug 17, 2006 10:24:43 am PDT #917 of 10001
This conversation is amusing to me because I spent a good half of my undergrad discussing how 'culture' should be defined.
The general consensus is that you shouldn't bother and just fudge the edges.
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2006 10:28:21 am PDT #918 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Every culture has different fudge, though.
Mmm, fudge.
Jesse - Aug 17, 2006 10:36:55 am PDT #919 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The general consensus is that you shouldn't bother and just fudge the edges.
Oh good, because I could tell every time I started typing a sentence that I would have come up with something completely different yesterday or last week.
Jars - Aug 17, 2006 10:39:15 am PDT #920 of 10001
Well that's a post-processualist view. I'm sure someone coming at it from a processualist viewpoint would be happy to provide a definition and statistics to support it. Crazy processualists.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2006 10:44:19 am PDT #921 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Crazy processualists
Oh yeah, those guys are NUTS. I totally know who they are and what that word means, too.
AllAroundPsycho - Aug 17, 2006 10:44:56 am PDT #922 of 10001
If wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak.
I am Jessica.
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2006 10:45:23 am PDT #923 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have no idea what processualism is.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2006 10:49:12 am PDT #924 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::returns from Wikipedia::
I quite like the processualists. But I can see the weak points in their view.
::dives back for the definition of postmodern::