Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "'HELP US!!' message written in snow spotted in Crestline as desperation grows" video.

  1. The word Eskimo came from an American movie about northern natives, starring an Italian actor. Northern natives are called Inuit. They live in underground communities, dug below the frost line, what you see as igloos are temporary shelter during travels.
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  2.  @BelleOfAmherst  Let me say more. The Inuit leader who took me with him for a census of wintering Inuit, asked if I wanted to go with him while he chopped open a fishing hole. I was thinking ice fishing on Lake Erie. The ski-doo was commercial, huge. Women took four empty oil barrels off the trailer behind it, put a box for me to sit on, and each woman gave a blanket to wrap around me. We flew out of Goose Bay and out onto arctic ice. We went past the sight of land. There was fluffy patches of, not snow, but the snowflakes that made it out there. And then there was nothing but black ice, what he said was ancient ice, stronger than concrete. He stopped and shut the motor off. I got afraid a little, knowing my friends' motors. There was a small hole, maybe twelve inches wide, and he took out an axe and chopped the ice off, what froze on top of a six foot hole. I could see the water rising up and falling like wave action. I'll never figure out how the Elder found it. He had to hold me so I could stand, having to learn how to stand on that ice, and slide a little, unable to walk. He said watch out for the wind, losing three friends who blew away and went into the water. When I came back and visited my parents, my mother said something opened my Scottish heart. Now that I have one my parents talked to me that way, and that still makes me wonder.
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  3. @Dgo Drummer I thot I got it. I used to havit. And I'm old school, having my fingers on a digital keyboard in 1979, when it was called the information highway. That was like the first television broadcasts, TV being said to be educational. That didn't last long. I know you want personal information. I got over my video game addiction in 1980. When I saw Donkey Kong and saw what a new computer game could do, I quit while I could. The three Toronto universities that were linked to the information highway each paid $50,000 a year for the privilege. Rates have come down to where we are publishing online for free through many venues. You should wonder about that.
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