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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 6, 2005 10:55:24 GMT 12
I figured someone would ask eventually:
Where does the name "PitYak" come from?
Anyone can get it right, there's another T on offer. Open to all members, with the exception of Mack ;D cos he probably knows already!
That might be a slight clue, another would be it's nothing to do with the large hairy bovine, but is something to do with "pit".
The first one to get it exactly right will get a T, if noone gets it spot on, I might be generous enough to give one to the best guess, or the answer that tickles me the most.
...and if I find you've hassled Mack for the answer, you 'll get disqualified and called cheeter cheeter by all the rest of us!
(Mack if you genuinely don't know, you can enter too, but I'll be a bit suspicious if you get it right straight away!)
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Post by Aaron on Feb 6, 2005 11:02:48 GMT 12
Well first of all I thought it was because you are eastern european and Pityak was your surname... then I found out your real name and that when right out the window ;D
I think its a reference to/name of a discussion group you had at teachers training college in the UK.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 6, 2005 11:06:09 GMT 12
That's an interesting guess, but actually so wide of the mark you wouldn't even be able to see the mark from there ;D
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Post by Aaron on Feb 6, 2005 11:13:52 GMT 12
Your local pub was nick-named the Pit and you used to tell your wife your were "going down the pit for a yak"? Hehee, Im nothing if not imaginative in my ideas  Reminds me of a story on the Newcasle Brown label about taking The Dog for a walk... anybody here actually drink that stuff? scariest damn Beer in the world! Tastes like they've scrapped the mud of the bottom of the Tyne, watered it down and bottle it!  Sorry just confused everyone and waaaay off topic |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 6, 2005 11:27:41 GMT 12
<Ahem> That's my favourite tipple you're referring to. They put it in our bottles instead of milk where I come from! My prize possession is my Brown Ale badge on my jacket. If you'd ever seen the Tyne, you'd realise just how much worse that mud would be than anything you could possibly imagine! Read any Terry Pratchet? The description of the Ankh is pretty close to the Tyne. Did you know Clint Eastwood has a crate sent from Newcastle every month? The old dog story is a funny one; noone really knows if it's true, but we do all call Brown Ale "dog" and have done for generations. ...and if you think the beer is scary, try going in a pub in Newcastle at closing time! How culturally insensitive!  |
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Post by Aaron on Feb 6, 2005 11:37:51 GMT 12
hehee... whoops. I knew I should have checked where Northumbria was! Well I do apologise but atleast its my opinon formed from personal experience not just me talking about a topic I dont know (would I do that!  )besides my favourite beer is Speights, living in auckland and drinking Speights doesn't really work that well. I have seen the Tyne but only from the train, didn't have any compelling reason to get off the train in Newcastle... well except <checks over his should for his wife> for that gorgeous woman I met on the way to Edinburgh who was getting off in Newcastle. |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 6, 2005 11:44:30 GMT 12
funny. a lot of people say that.
what were you doing up there?
Everyone seems to agree that geordie women are rather attractive, or just downright filthy actually. My misssus (who is from these hallowed shores) couldn't believe seeing women out on the beer in 6 inches of snow wearing less than she would normally wear at the beach!
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Post by voltigeur on Feb 6, 2005 21:02:07 GMT 12
You being a Welly-ton-ian I epect its something along the lines of
PITY AK ;D
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 6, 2005 21:10:06 GMT 12
Good try, but me? a Wellingtonian?
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Post by Aaron on Feb 7, 2005 8:12:13 GMT 12
what were you doing up there? I was visiting my parents who had moved back to England to live for a year. So whilst I'd travelled all that way thought I may as well have a look round. I was travelling up to Edinburgh for a week or so, via train up the east coast. The girl was actually from Liverpool but she was studying medicine in Newcastle. She pointed out a few landmarks but we couldn't see much from the train. (as an aside I have never seen soooo many sun tanned women as I did in Liverpool. That must be the single biggest market for fake tan anywhere in the world!!) So its true that Geordie women run around in next to nothing in the freezing weather? Damn... I thought that was just a piss-take I saw somewhere (harry enfield I think)... maybe I should have stopped off So we dont seem to be getting too far with this Guess the PitYak competition if we dont make any headway in a couple of days maybe we could introduce a 20 questions rule? |
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Post by Aaron on Feb 7, 2005 9:00:12 GMT 12
Ive got an even more out there idea ;D One of your first jobs was as a naturalist who studied the migratory patterns of Yaks. To track animials they use a Passive Integrated Transponder, or PIT. So obviously you got the name from your time when you used to PIT Yaks...  |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 7, 2005 9:04:16 GMT 12
That's incredible, I didn't think anyone would have heard about Passive Integrated Yak Transponders, but no, that's still not it.
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Post by Aaron on Feb 7, 2005 10:03:14 GMT 12
Damn I thought I had it nailed with that one and your comment about it being nothing to do with Bovine was just a sneaky ploy to throw us off. Ok does it have something to do with race tracks? eg you used to help out in the pits or something? I would let other people have a guess too but no one else has posted so I'll keep trying to win! |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 7, 2005 13:00:05 GMT 12
You're right; at the minute it looks like I should make sure I've got one in your size.
Although with the way your guesses are going, i might not have to worry for a while!
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Post by G-nome on Feb 7, 2005 14:38:42 GMT 12
Is it like a pit pony but more Tibetan?
I hear those Tibetan monks dig tunnels through the world and I expect theres the odd yak thats made it through to suprise geordie miners.
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)besides my favourite beer is Speights, living in auckland and drinking Speights doesn't really work that well.
