How Fugawi Came By Its Moniker

[+AuntieWeasel]

Hmmm...I'm not sure if it's physically possible to ask this question and stay within the forum guidelines, but here goes nuffink. I was demonstrating Fugawi for someone, who chortled and said, "from the old joke, no doubt." The what?

 

Has anyone else encountered the joke about the Fugawi tribe, who lived the tall grass and got their name from asking, "where the...?"

 

It simply has to derive from that, but what a very cheeky marketing concept. Am I the only one who didn't know this old joke?

 

Edit: spelling booboo

Edited September 25, 2004 by AuntieWeasel

[+Renegade Knight]

I've only heard it since starting geocaching.

[+LordSaw]

I don't remember when I first heard that joke, but it was long before the time of GPS. I think it was when I was an aircrewman in the navy. There were a lot of times we refered to the person sitting in the NAV position as an indian, especially when he couldn't get a LORAN fix.

 

Cache Well

[tubemonkey]

In the same vain, there was that cleverly named Indian tribe from the mid 60's sitcom F Troop. Leave it to a white man to misinterpret a lost Indian's query of "where the heck are we" to mean "we're the Hekawis". I loved that show.

 

Nothing like a good play on words.

 

tm

[+Alan2]

here

[+Learned Gerbil]

The joke was current in English Schools in the 1960s.

[vagabond]

At least 2 versions

[+NightPilot]

It was also common in Texas in the very early 60s. I can't even remember when I first heard it, but it was a long, long time ago. The third letter has metamorphosed from a k to a g, or so it sounds, but the rest is pretty much the same, although better joke tellers tend to add ebmellishments.

[koz]

...and detroit in the 60s...

[+Stunod]

Tony told the joke in an episode of The Sopranos.

Edited September 25, 2004 by Stunod

[+Fismo]

and New York in the 60's

[+NightPilot]

Auntie, it looks like you've led a very sheltered life!

[+jackanddonna]

I remember hearing the joke in Fryeburg Academy (Maine). It's a tribe in northern Maine where Interstate 95 runs through their territory!

[Sledmaster & C.J.]

Now I'm feeling really experienced, (or is it aged challanged) I heard it in the mid '50's as a tribe in the Northern Utah area.

Sledmaster

[+CompuCash]

Hmmm...I'm not sure if it's physically possible to ask this question and stay within the forum guidelines, but here goes nuffink. I was demonstrating Fugawi for someone, who chortled and said, "from the old joke, no doubt." The what?

 

Has anyone else encountered the joke about the Fugawi tribe, who lived the tall grass and got their name from asking, "where the...?"

 

It simply has to derive from that, but what a very cheeky marketing concept. Am I the only one who didn't know this old joke?

 

Edit: spelling booboo

I heard it years ago -

 

long joke about how different Indian tribes got their names -

 

black feet etc. don't recall all the different ones now -

 

Fugawi Indians from being lost - climbing a tree - coming down and asking

 

where the Fugawi?

 

so I guess there are different versions running around -

I laughted my head off when I heard it and still smile about it -

 

even had a laugh when I heard of the software knowing that dealing with GPS and knowing exacty (?) where you are, the name was rather approriate if irreverent.

 

cheeky? maybe - but if it works?

[+NightPilot]

If you always need to know exactly where you are, and have a Palm, do a Google search for SoftGPS.