Every once and a while I will be reminded, out of the blue, of aspects of my home and native land that are strange but I kinda miss. Today I got an email from Balog telling about a client he was entertaining from Quebec - and how entertained he was at the gentleman's repeated (albeit drunken) use of the term
honkin - and how it was because of his association with me that he actually knew what it meant. I had forgotten how often I used that word in my first years in the great US of A, and how often I had to explain it's use to co-workers and friends. "
It means really excessively extravegantly big" I would explain. Canadians often use it in a mysterious form of hyperbolic duplication by saying things like "
that dude was honkin huge" and so forth. Imagine my entertainment to be reminded of this word and also find that it does have an officially definition (as defined by
UNwords.com):
honkin(hôngk-
n)
1. (adj.) Extremely large, very huge. As in: "You see that big honkin tree over there?". See also: mahonkin
Good times.
But that is not all. I was just recently thinking about the fields of
canola that were grown on the plains of Alberta. Fields of bright yellow stretching out until they looked like they touched the Rockies in the distance. So very pretty. Today I read the
Acres and Acres of Rape blog on theSneeze.com, and now I will never be able to look at my beloved mustard colored fields the same again.
And let's not even talk about Olympic
hockey....
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