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Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 6:47am.

There are some aspects of Pacific Northwest life that are unique to our little corner of the world, but we have yet to invent special words for some of these people, places, things, events.

One case in point-- when the road is wet, which it is a lot of the time around here, and logging trucks drive by, they leave behind a cloud of greasy road mist which temporarily envelopes any vehicle the truck is passing. This misty moving cloud, so far as I know, has never been given an individual word defining it. Any suggestions?

 

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The Clearcut Cloud?Please

The Clearcut Cloud?

Please give me a second grace. Please give me a second face. I've fallen far down, the first time around, now I just sit on the ground in your way.
Nick Drake

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I'm rolling my eyes as I type this

Crying trees. Gag.
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The Rubber Rainshower orThe

The Rubber Rainshower or

The Mudflap Mist.

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Rubber Rainshower?

Why does that sound dirty? Because you said it, or is it just me?
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Both?

That would be my guess anyway.
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Or

Forest Fog

Harvest Haze

Mill Mist

Springboard Spray

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Faeries' tears.

Faeries' tears.
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It sounds really magical,

but do Faeries have really dirty tear ducts?
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These days

they do.
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I hear their tear ducts were stolen

by the dark Lord of Werehauser for his evil experiments. They may be corrupted tears, but they are tears nontheless.
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That makes me sad.

Okay, my contribution is Logermistym. Some of the others sound like perfumes...the Eau de Weather line.
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lol

Dark Lord of Weyerhaeuser.

Can I be the Dark Lord of Physical Pain, and you the Dork Lord of Evil Statistics?

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No

You are the Snark Lord of Lame...if I have to be the Dork Lord, that is. The way Janet's been talking about herself lately, she must be the Pork Lord. And Deb is the Stork Lord for obvious reasons. We all know who the Nark Lord is, but I'm not naming names.
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You are hilarious

...I'm laughing so hard that my dog is pawing at me to get some of the love.
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WHAT???

LORD? Lord? Please, G. At least let me be the DUCHESS of Pork.

Peace became pizza. -- Guglielmo

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I'm quite glad

you have a sense of humor.
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I bet you are

 ;)

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I like the

Mudflap Mist. With a blending of topsoil, chain oil, diesel and woodtones. It comes in many scents, Oldgrowth Cedar, Fabulous Fir, and Alluring Alder with that fresh cut orange stain. Be alluring to that rough guy, put on your Hickory shirt and suspenders, and dab a bit of Mudflap Mist in all the right places. He will drop his Husky and grab yours. And to repell those city slickers, use Swampbaby Cottonwood. She did what?
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Here's what I call it...

SMUSH
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Weyerhaeuser Water

Weyerhaeuser water.
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how about?

Skookum Muck
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Or sticking with the river theme

Deschits!
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or

Scumwater
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Or

Forks Fizz.
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OlympissPlease give me a

Olympiss

Please give me a second grace. Please give me a second face. I've fallen far down, the first time around, now I just sit on the ground in your way.
Nick Drake

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Stop me from saying it...

Sprainier
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Ah, Schmidt!

Oh, Schmidt!
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Pabst Smear?Please give me a

Pabst Smear?

Please give me a second grace. Please give me a second face. I've fallen far down, the first time around, now I just sit on the ground in your way.
Nick Drake

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Oh God please for the love

Oh God please for the love of Gingy STOP!
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That's just

...just...oh, Merwyn. That's what happens to the windshield.
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Another Pacific Northwest word question

What is the word for that feeling when your bare foot or hand lands on a slug or slug slime?
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I don't know

but you need to see a cephalopodiatrist right a way if that happens.
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Ooh, that feeling is snot so fun.

But seriously, I believe the word is snailgagging (not to be confused with snailgating, which can happen when you are stuck behind one of those logging trucks in bad weather).
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Tying the thread

I love it. You have really tied this entire thread together quite well.

I'm also interested in inventing a word for the unique Western Washington experience of seeing that bright yellow thing in the sky after it has been absent for longer than we can remember. When we can actually feel the rays of direct sunlight after a long absence. Even in the dead of winter, meager though that heat might be.

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A word for

prolonged light deprivation under iron grey skies?
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Day ja Few

Day ja Few
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