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climbsomething
May 1, 2007, 4:27 AM
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http://www.jigaloo.com/en/
I was watching TV last night and saw a commercial for this "Jig-a-Loo," which is some kind of "lubripellant." After my last remaining sliver of PC'ness died and was resurrected, I went to the internets and found the Web site, which explains that the name is a take on the "common Canadian expression," ti-gi-dou!, which I guess is like "eureka!"
I'm sure it's all innocent but damn, Canadian marketing department! Maybe Don Imus should us this to grease up his ancient joints 
I do not see this shizz catching on in, say, Atlanta or Houston...
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rogue10186
May 1, 2007, 4:43 AM
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Lol, I've been wondering the same damn thing... so is it basicaly like WD-40 minus the petrol-based ingredients?
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macblaze
May 1, 2007, 5:17 AM
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climbsomething wrote: http://www.jigaloo.com/en/ I was watching TV last night and saw a commercial for this "Jig-a-Loo," which is some kind of "lubripellant." After my last remaining sliver of PC'ness died and was resurrected, I went to the internets and found the Web site, which explains that the name is a take on the "common Canadian expression," ti-gi-dou!, which I guess is like "eureka!" I'm sure it's all innocent but damn, Canadian marketing department! Maybe Don Imus should us this to grease up his ancient joints I do not see this shizz catching on in, say, Atlanta or Houston...
What's to explain... it's extracted igloo oil!
andclimbsomething wrote: I'm sure it's all innocent but damn, Canadian marketing department!
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squamistress
May 1, 2007, 5:42 AM
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'Canadian'? Dunno about that. Never heard of it out here in Western Canada. We're not ALL weird. i think it's an East coast thing. 
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shakylegs
May 1, 2007, 2:33 PM
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squamistress
May 1, 2007, 3:57 PM
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shakylegs wrote: Tigidou is a québécois "joual" (slang) expression, and can mean a lot of different things, but it's pretty much along the lines of "a-ok." So, you could approach a line, turn to your partner, grab your crotch, and say, "Ouais, criss, ch'pense j'va m'assayer. T'es près?" (Fuck it, I think I'll try it. You ready?) To which your partner checks the belay device and goes, "tigidou!"
Ahh yes, the Quebecois.. Even the French can't understand them.. Everything is slang! My daughter is in full-on french core school, taught by Quebecois teachers. I almost choked when she came home saying 'ooWAY' for 'oui' and counting started with, 'Urn, der, twaa, cat, sank..'
My European-french speaking husband has to try very hard not to make faces when she speaks french with him... 
-Anna V
ps.. i didn't mean THAT far East Coast, Granite Grrl.. The maritimes are a whole 'nother Kettle 'O Fish. We Westerners tend to think 'East Coast' as anything past the Red River.
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granite_grrl
May 1, 2007, 4:29 PM
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squamistress wrote: shakylegs wrote: Tigidou is a québécois "joual" (slang) expression, and can mean a lot of different things, but it's pretty much along the lines of "a-ok." So, you could approach a line, turn to your partner, grab your crotch, and say, "Ouais, criss, ch'pense j'va m'assayer. T'es près?" (Fuck it, I think I'll try it. You ready?) To which your partner checks the belay device and goes, "tigidou!" Ahh yes, the Quebecois.. Even the French can't understand them.. Everything is slang! My daughter is in full-on french core school, taught by Quebecois teachers. I almost choked when she came home saying 'ooWAY' for 'oui' and counting started with, 'Urn, der, twaa, cat, sank..' My European-french speaking husband has to try very hard not to make faces when she speaks french with him... -Anna V ps.. i didn't mean THAT far East Coast, Granite Grrl.. The maritimes are a whole 'nother Kettle 'O Fish. We Westerners tend to think 'East Coast' as anything past the Red River.
Yeah, went through 6 years of french immersion in school and still couldn't inderstand french when I walked into Quebec. We were never taught slang. I think of all the teachers I had only a couple were from quebec. But there was a whole number of Acadians....fortunally they spoke proper french to us, Acadian slang can be a true butchering.
And I've met a lot of people who think Ontario is the "east coast". To me Ontario was always to the west!
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climb_eng
May 1, 2007, 4:34 PM
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squamistress wrote: shakylegs wrote: Tigidou is a québécois "joual" (slang) expression, and can mean a lot of different things, but it's pretty much along the lines of "a-ok." So, you could approach a line, turn to your partner, grab your crotch, and say, "Ouais, criss, ch'pense j'va m'assayer. T'es près?" (Fuck it, I think I'll try it. You ready?) To which your partner checks the belay device and goes, "tigidou!" Ahh yes, the Quebecois.. Even the French can't understand them.. Everything is slang! My daughter is in full-on french core school, taught by Quebecois teachers. I almost choked when she came home saying 'ooWAY' for 'oui' and counting started with, 'Urn, der, twaa, cat, sank..' My European-french speaking husband has to try very hard not to make faces when she speaks french with him... -Anna V ps.. i didn't mean THAT far East Coast, Granite Grrl.. The maritimes are a whole 'nother Kettle 'O Fish. We Westerners tend to think 'East Coast' as anything past the Red River.
By east I mean east of me. Onterians look at me like an idiot when I see "oh, so you're from back east".
I once called an albertan an easterner... that didn't go over well .
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squamistress
May 1, 2007, 5:38 PM
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climb_eng wrote: By east I mean east of me. Onterians look at me like an idiot when I see "oh, so you're from back east". I once called an albertan an easterner... that didn't go over well .
I can imagine! it's about the same as calling any Canadian an American.
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scrapedape
May 1, 2007, 9:46 PM
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climb_eng wrote: I once called an albertan an easterner... that didn't go over well.
I was talking to some guys from Rivers Inlet on the central coast of BC about a business my uncle ran up in their area. "Oh yeah," they said. "We know Ken. He's that lawyer from back east."
To those guys, "back east" meant Kamloops.
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scrapedape
May 1, 2007, 9:47 PM
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Oh, and someone's going to have to spell out the problem with Jigaloo for me. This Canuck doesn't get it either.
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climbsomething
May 2, 2007, 4:23 AM
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In parts of the U.S., it sounds like a racial slur. I don't think it's as vicious as The N Word but what do I know...
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lagr01
May 2, 2007, 7:46 AM
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squamistress wrote: Ahh yes, the Quebecois.. Even the French can't understand them.. Everything is slang! My daughter is in full-on french core school, taught by Quebecois teachers. I almost choked when she came home saying 'ooWAY' for 'oui' and counting started with, 'Urn, der, twaa, cat, sank..' My European-french speaking husband has to try very hard not to make faces when she speaks french with him...
You know, I alway assumed that the Quebecois are bilingual and they are as fluent in english as they are in french. I didn't realize how wrong I was until I spoke on the phone in english with a woman from Quebec. She made me with my crappy accent sound like I'm the Count of Worcestershire or something. Hell, all the french people I know speak better english than she does.
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squamistress
May 2, 2007, 9:12 PM
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lagr01 wrote: You know, I alway assumed that the Quebecois are bilingual and they are as fluent in english as they are in french. I didn't realize how wrong I was until I spoke on the phone in english with a woman from Quebec. She made me with my crappy accent sound like I'm the Count of Worcestershire or something. Hell, all the french people I know speak better english than she does.
Nope. There are many Quebecois who speak little or no english at all, especially in the Northern towns. I spent a week billeted with a family in a community where no english was spoken at all. Fun times.
People in Western Canada don't generally speak french, and french education is only for those who make a point of pursuing it. it's the same in Quebec, except that english is the minority language.
Oh yeah, Shaky? Saying we're all 'Americans' 'cause we live on the North American Continent is simply being obtuse. I can go about calling us all 'Earthlings' because we all live on the same planet, too.
It doesn't change the fact that we're colloquially known as 'Canadian' in the North, 'American' in the middle, and 'Mexican' in the South, etc.. It also doesn't change the fact that we're all generally annoyed with each other and would prefer not to be confused with our neighbours.
-Anna V
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getsomeethics
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shakylegs wrote: Tigidou is a québécois "joual" (slang) expression, and can mean a lot of different things, but it's pretty much along the lines of "a-ok." So, you could approach a line, turn to your partner, grab your crotch, and say, "Ouais, criss, ch'pense j'va m'assayer. T'es près?" (Fuck it, I think I'll try it. You ready?) To which your partner checks the belay device and goes, "tigidou!"
i' m going to practice saying this this for sure. It will no doubt sound horrible and make most quebecers laugh in disgust, but my aussie friends won't know the differnce!!
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lovesclimbing
May 4, 2007, 6:21 PM
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Its a type of oil that we squezze out of blubber that has a 1001 uses 
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reno
May 5, 2007, 1:41 AM
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shakylegs wrote: say, "Ouais, criss, ch'pense j'va m'assayer. T'es près?" (Fuck it, I think I'll try it. You ready?)
M'kay, here's my best shot:
"Oasis, Chris. Expense java mass sayer, Tree press."
I think it loses something in the translation.... Like that German word "Shaded Fraud."
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lovesclimbing
May 5, 2007, 3:53 AM
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This is going beyond my english and bad english
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macblaze
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reno wrote: shakylegs wrote: say, "Ouais, criss, ch'pense j'va m'assayer. T'es près?" (Fuck it, I think I'll try it. You ready?) M'kay, here's my best shot: "Oasis, Chris. Expense java mass sayer, Tree press." I think it loses something in the translation.... Like that German word "Shaded Fraud."
More like:
Oo-aye, crease. sh ponse zhe'vah mass aye. Taye pray?
Man that's hard to do, got way more respect for linguists now...
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May 5, 2007, 4:29 AM
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squamistress wrote: shakylegs wrote: Tigidou is a québécois "joual" (slang) expression, and can mean a lot of different things, but it's pretty much along the lines of "a-ok." So, you could approach a line, turn to your partner, grab your crotch, and say, "Ouais, criss, ch'pense j'va m'assayer. T'es près?" (Fuck it, I think I'll try it. You ready?) To which your partner checks the belay device and goes, "tigidou!" Ahh yes, the Quebecois.. Even the French can't understand them.. Everything is slang! My daughter is in full-on french core school, taught by Quebecois teachers. I almost choked when she came home saying 'ooWAY' for 'oui' and counting started with, 'Urn, der, twaa, cat, sank..' My European-french speaking husband has to try very hard not to make faces when she speaks french with him...
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Two cats were in a swimming race.
The English cat was called "One Two Three"
The French cat was called "Un Deux Trois"
The English cat won the race because...the Un, deux, trois, cat sank.
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ti-gi-dou????
what the fuck is that aboot?
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