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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
I can't klaxon bad punning.
Pity.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
>>Is this anything to do with the voyagers who traded up the rivers and around the great lakes and were usually french<<
In a way yes. DGI +1
Clue. Taff's post 60 is dangerously close to being right - even if it is a bad pun!
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HonestIago Posted Jul 17, 2009
Did he think he was better than everyone else and call himself Superior?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
haha. No.
I think with Laumet it might be better to lance this boil and give the specific answer relating to him so people can move on to the actual link between the 4 things and to save me having to dance around it.
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ekky99 Posted Jul 17, 2009
Sorry, I'm coming in a bit late here, but wasn't the jeep named after a creature in Popeye, a funny little dog-like thing with a big nose that could go anywhere and kept disappearing (if memory serves right).
Other characters in Popeye that gave their names to WWII things include Wellington Wimpy after whom the Wellington bomber was sometimes know as a Wimpy and the Goons - a tribe that lived on an island - a word used to refer to German soldiers (particularly prison camp guards) and later adopted by Spike Milligan for the Goon Show.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
I'll give you a DGI +1 for that.
It is *one* of the many myths around (the other being 'general purpose') - I went with the one that came with the documentary evidence. 
You've also all but stated the link....
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 17, 2009
he was given the indian name huron and the lake was then named after him
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
There is a lake named after someone in this story - points if you know who - but it's no-one mentioned so far. 
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ekky99 Posted Jul 17, 2009
Is the link something to do with changing their identity to escape from something or just disappear?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
No. It's isn't but I'll use this opportunity to close off the speculation about Laumet - because that's what I was trying to hint at but no-one quiet said. He changed his name alright but he completely re-invented himself and then on that basis went on to enter the history books, in many ways, but in particular in the way I want to like to Louis, The Chief and the TM-908.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
Ekky DGI +1
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 17, 2009
have they all entered american folk lore
davey crocket, daniel boone, custer, that appleseed chap, that sort of thing??????
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
Nope.
It's more obvious than that.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
No Michigan.
Much further south.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
Not that far south. 
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 17, 2009
Ontario is the only lake yet to be mentioned...
Unless there is a minor lake somewhere
GT
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
I should have klaxoned the lakes shouldn't I?
Nah. There are others.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 17, 2009
eerie, huron, superior, michigan??????
lake geneva
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