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Don't know about the Jugo part though.

In Boston area there is a huge Lithuanian community and they referred to themselves as Jugos...pronounced JUGgo - like the container.

Might be a regional thing. Had an amazing office mate from there...first generation Lithuanian farmer son, MIT Physics BS, PhD from Cornell.

Seems related to jùngas, which is 'yoke' or something like it, I believe.

When I started where I am, the fabrication plant had a lot of Russian dudes (immigrants) working in there. And one Lithuanian immigrant. When I got a feel for the fab shop social order, I took it upon myself to tell him that I was of Lithuanian descent. I think it made his day. Or year.

He had an instant kinship with "The Engineer" up in the office. I'd speak what little I could manage with him every time I saw him, and learned something new every time. He was a really nice guy, but not unlike "The Bolivian" in The 33 (movie - and real life) - grossly outnumbered, culturally.

FYI, "grandfather" is "derdushka" in Russian, Ukrainian, south slav ...'

Tomfoolery wrote:

sailboatmike wrote:I became a Grandparent (Diedukas in Lithuanian, so I'm 'Papa Duke') at the ripe old age of 58.

And the Great Lakes water levels continue to rise

http://www.monroenews.com/news/20180127 ... -year-rise

dlandersson wrote:Great Lakes water levels near 20 year high

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

dlandersson wrote:FYI, "grandfather" is "derdushka" in Russian, Ukrainian, south slav ...'

Tomfoolery wrote:

sailboatmike wrote:I became a Grandparent (Diedukas in Lithuanian, so I'm 'Papa Duke') at the ripe old age of 58.

Interesting, but not totally surprising given the geographic proximity.

As to the water levels, well, here we go again. I never posted this pic, but it shows an even higher water level than the one I posted a couple of pages back.

The original, from page 2:



At about the peak:



It looks about the same, but that's a plywood walkway they had to build to get the hinge part of the floating ramp and the fixed wooden ramp on the land side out of the water. They couldn't close the locked gate, so the marina was open to the public basically for a couple of months. You also can't see the rocks-in-chicken-wire-bags erosion control measures they put in as the water was rising. It's all under water.



I believe the Montreal area had it worse than most areas here, and it would have been worse still if they increased the outflow into the St. Lawrence Seaway. Many people are blaming Plan 2014 for the high water last year, but authorities from both both Canada and the US disagree and blame it on high levels of precipitation.

I'm sure the newspapers and TV talking heads around here will be lighting up over this again this coming spring.