[Thanks to Dee Dee for this story.]
Wednesday Wisdom
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Pwisen Malek
The island of Pohnpei, one of those in Micronesia, has an interesting yet unfortunately-named physical feature. It is called Pwisen Malek, which translates literally to Chickenshit Mountain. This landmark acquired its name because of an old native legend which traced its origins as due to a giant chicken defecating on that spot, leaving a mountain of manure. I'm glad I don't have to clean up that!
[Thanks to Dee Dee for this story.]
[Thanks to Dee Dee for this story.]
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It must have been a seriously constipated chicken who finally got relief.
Haven't they heard of euphemisms there?
There are those who could rationally argue in favor of changing the name of Capitol Hill to Pwisen Malek.
They should call it Capitol Molehill, alternatively.
What do they feed their chickens over there?
oh, my! gotta love that lore!
That proves that even chickens can get their shit together.
The person who named it has a great sense of humor.
I heard that's the chicken that ate Colonel Sanders.
Chickenshit is very much World War Two slang. Could it have been named then?
Probably an ancient, extinct Polynesian MOA-
"some stood as much as 3 metres (10 feet) high. The name moa came from a Polynesian word for fowl."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/386708/moa
ALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
=^..^=
So someone pwissed off the chicken...
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