Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for July 29, 2009

…and another hundred for lawn moving!

But they are unprintable.

Luckily they can’t be heard over the lawnmower

I trot out my nonmotorized little $100 job from Lowe’s. It doesn’t noise-pollute, it doesn’t air-pollute, and it burns precisely the fuel I want it to burn.

Not to detract from the cartoon’s joke, but Wikipedia describes the idea that Eskimos have a large number of words for snow as an “urban myth” (altho “urban” is not a word I usually associate with Eskimos).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo-words-for-snow (substituting hyphens for underscores)

A fixed version of pschearer’s Wikipedia link is here

I feel sorry for the ones uses those old fashion push cutters. I know it saves on gas but the body takes punshinment.

Yeah, and when they have to mow it, the words all start with swear words.

more that 100 words…

…and those are just the 4 letter words.

The Inuit did have numerous words for the type of snow they were dealing with. When they get up everyday, they know there is probably snow (10 months of the year), but they needed to know what kind of snow to decide if they can go hunting. This has probably dissipated since they now live in houses and don’t depend on hunting as much for their living anymore.