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Whats it all mean . . . a tad confused!

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Welsh Neil

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I have been reading all the posts and including my own on here for over a month now, and I have a couple of questions. I understand what the following words are pertaining to but must ask the question why? Is it just an American slang or just everyday language? Here goes:

Ticket - I understand as a good gold find, but why ticket?

Nut - I understand as total finds for the day, but why nut?

Skunk - I understand as nothing being found of any value, but why?

Nitro - False gold or diamonds. As above why Nitro?

Sorry to sound a bit daft, but they are just not part of everyday language in Wales!

Diolch yn fawr
Neil
 
Hi Neil,

I don't post here often, but I might be able to help. It sounds like you know what the forum posters MEAN, but you're asking WHY these terms make sense. Am I right? These sayings seem to be specific to the treasure hunting world (except "getting skunked"). If anyone else wants to jump in and correct me, in case I'm wrong, feel free. Here's your questions and below each, MY take on where these sayings may have come from.

Ticket - I understand as a good gold find, but why ticket?
Answer: My guess on this one is that it might be from (and I might be wrong) the movie and book "Charley and the Chocolate Factory" in which a chocolate company (Willie Wonka's) was hiding golden tickets in candy bars and those who found them had a chance to tour the factory with one lucky child winning the whole factory. The golden ticket. No one that I know of on this forum has said that, but it makes sense to me. Or it could have come from winning a lottery ticket. Other thoughts, treasure hunters?

Nut - I understand as total finds for the day, but why nut?
Answer: My brother, who posts here often (Mike in Va Beach) gave this answer once. Squirrels are always looking for a nut. (Notice that they always hide them away like they are some treasure and horde them. I don't know why it refers to "everything found" in the treasure world, though.)

Skunk - I understand as nothing being found of any value, but why?
Answer: My guess is because skunks "stink" so when we don't find anything, we "got skunked."

Nitro - False gold or diamonds. As above why Nitro?
Answer: Because when you first see that 3 carat "diamond" ring your heart skips a beat and you get all excited that it might be worth a fortune - so you reach for your Nitro-glycerin tablets to prevent the onset of a heart attack.

Hope that helped. Again, anyone else, feel free to jump in with your own thoughts.

HH (Happy Hunting!)
Stacey
 
And the rest has been answered. You can thank GraveDiggerMax for all of it. He's the one who coins all the new terms around here. At least the ones that seem to stick.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?26,383709,383912#msg-383912
 
Nut - Either the overhead costs of running a casino, or the fixed amount that a gambler decides to win in a day.

When we say this is our "Nut" It means what we "won" or found for the entire day of detecting......
 
I moved to the east coast about 3 years ago from Illinois - I grew up in Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois and the word "skunked" means the same thing there as here (although I don't recall it's use in the drunk sense).

The other terms however, I only came to learn by reading a couple MD'ing forums.
 
Ticket - I understand as a good gold find, but why ticket?
Hot Ticket - a good item to have in your possession
Nut - I understand as total finds for the day, but why nut?
what it takes to make the NUT turn, the overhead, the whole deal
Skunk - I understand as nothing being found of any value, but why?
to smell like a skunk, to stink up the place, this hunt really stank, etc.
Nitro - False gold or diamonds. As above why Nitro?
Nitroglycerin required to stem a heart attack caused by seeing what looked like gold in the scoop but was actually fool's gold
Klondike
the 1849'ers gold rush is the connection to a big pile of gold loot
Hot Goose
You better send Max a PM on that one:lol:

Cheers Mate,

BDA:cool:
 
My fathers side of the family is from Kankakee and when I was a kid we used to travel out there every year in August when my grandparents were still alive.

"Skunked" was not a widely used term back then and all the neighborhood kids used to scratch their heads at that and other East Coast lingo my brother and I used to throw around.
According to the slang dictionary its origins are rooted in Massachusetts so I guess it's one of the few contributions to the national lexicon from around these here parts (I am still scratching my head why "Wicked Pissa" never caught on in other areas of the country. :shrug:

Oh... and my father grew up a die-hard Cubs fan (still is). When he moved out here he became a die-hard Red Sox fan as well.
The poor guy was in absolute misery until 2004 when the Red Sox finally won the World Series (but he makes no secret that he would rather it have been his Cubbies instead).

If you are going to hunt Salisbury and Hampton this winter then I am sure we will run into each other. Looking forward to it.

HH
 
and I'll tell you all the places I've lived over my 42 years :)

Born in upper peninsula of Michigan, moved to a very very small town in the SW corner near Lake Michigan and the Indiana border.

Loved growing up in a tiny town - learned to enjoy the outdoors, knew everybody in town - makes me sad to know that very few kids will ever know those days growing up.

Graduated from UW Madison, lived there for awhile until I got married then lived in Port Washington and Milwaukee.

Finally got a great job in a small town in Illinois back around 1990. Lived in Champaign for a number of years and eventually moved to Decatur, Illinois for another job (pretty much right in the middle of the state).

Became a Cub fan way back when I lived in Michigan cause I loved baseball and every Cub game was on WGN - almost wish I'd never watched TV as a kid cause following this organization has been PAINFUL!!!

Always like Chicago and had some relatives in a couple different suberbs. Drove past Kankakee MANY times traveling from Champaign to Chicago and back up to Wisconsin to see family.

Gotta tell you though, my wife and I were sure as heck bored with the scenery of Illinois - can you say flat, flat and more flat? We've been really happy with the move out here - much more like living in Wisconsin with the addition of an ocean and mountains as well!!

As you said, I'm positive our paths will cross this fall/winter. I'm really enjoying getting back into this hobby again! Take care and good hunting!
 
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