Cape Cod Canal - call it the right name! - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

maddog2020 · 10-11-2006, 06:46 AM

Ok, is it just ME that gets PO'ed when some one called the Cape Cod Canal another name? I call it "The Canal" to people in the local area.

Who the heck ever came up with the name "The Ditch"?! May be I'm just perpetually grumpy.

When I hear people use it in that term - I always correct them. Is it just me or do you care what people call it?

When I hear "ditch" - I think of a something that is associated w/ debris or sewage. Ya know people say: "throw that in the ditch" ,or "ditch that car".

May be I should have had my coffee earlier!

Mike P · 10-11-2006, 09:57 AM

I dunno--guys have called it the "Big Ditch" ever since I was a kid

Krispy · 10-11-2006, 10:00 AM

I hate it when people use it as their board name

Krispy · 10-11-2006, 10:05 AM

And I dislike the term "jigger"

Krispy · 10-11-2006, 10:06 AM

and lawyers

fishsmith · 10-11-2006, 10:55 AM

ditch, hole, canal whatever, where's the tunnel

Goose · 10-11-2006, 04:39 PM

I hate when people refer to Rhode Island as "Rhody"...its like what ya talkin about rhododendron's?

Backbeach Jake · 10-11-2006, 05:00 PM

It's the "Kerf" were the Capey's sawed it free from the Mainland. Ready to declare themselves the 51st State.

tattoobob · 10-11-2006, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Goose

I hate when people refer to Rhode Island as "Rhody"...its like what ya talkin about rhododendron's?

Yes me to, and I hate the name ditch to reminds me of a dike "ditch digger"

call it what it is,

eastendlu · 10-11-2006, 06:16 PM

Were is the ditch located in rhody anyways?

Raider Ronnie · 10-11-2006, 06:26 PM

I hate when guys refer to my Raiders as "Faiders"

ProfessorM · 10-12-2006, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

I hate when guys refer to my Raiders as "Faiders"

Like Belichik says " It is what it is" Sorry

basswipe · 12-02-2007, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Goose

I hate when people refer to Rhode Island as "Rhody"...its like what ya talkin about rhododendron's?

"Little Rhody" is even worse.

Mike P · 12-02-2007, 08:16 AM

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"Little Rhody" is even worse.

It used to be the official nickname of the state, before someone came up with "The Ocean State" in the 70s.

spence · 12-02-2007, 08:24 AM

"Block" really bugs me. Like let's go to Block.

Or "the Block".

It's just not right.

-spence

Slingah · 12-03-2007, 07:52 PM

I hate when people call Dunkin Donuts "Dunkies"or Cumberland Farms "Cumbys" or McDonalds "Mickey D's"...
just say the name fer christsake

I don't like "the Ditch" either....

Vogt · 12-03-2007, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by spence

"Block" really bugs me. Like let's go to Block.

Or "the Block".

It's just not right.

-spence

How about when people refer to it as "the pork chop".

Is it so hard to say Block Island?

Joe · 01-08-2008, 05:22 PM

I hate places with names too big to fit on a t-shirt, or places with three initial abbreviations - ruins the aesthetic of my stickers.

stripersnipr · 10-12-2006, 08:17 AM

How about the Scussett river?

missing link · 10-13-2006, 08:26 PM

It was a DITCH B-4 they put water in it

Link Sr.

maddog2020 · 10-17-2006, 11:29 AM

Once the "ditch" FILLS w/ water then it is called a CANAL.

Panama CANAL = any one call it the Panama DITCH?!

May be I am just being ANAL (drop the C from CANAL).

Eat your heros/hogies as well! I call it a "sub" (submarine sandwich). Hard to get a good steak sub now a days..... use to go to Carl's in Waltham (now the steak isn't shaved any more it is cubed/rectangular

)

Just bored at lunchtime.

mrmacey · 10-17-2006, 12:14 PM

spuckies remember that it will show your age

MassBass · 10-17-2006, 04:18 PM

I remember people talking about the "ditch" back when I was about 10.
It always reminded of a horrific place:, " Yeah, I hit the ditch today. Lost about 7 jigs to old lobster pots and boulders. The current was way too much!! But there were so much squid that they'd try to crunch through your waders"

Saltheart · 12-04-2007, 03:39 PM

Ditch Jigger , I thought it was a clever twist on ditch digger. Anyway....I like it.

Sometimes I call it The Canal. Sometimes I call it The Ditch. now that i know it gets peoples dander up , I'm gonna call it The Ditch all the time.

maddog2020 · 12-06-2007, 06:39 AM

Jeeez - some one dug this up ..... LOL.

Call it whatever ya want.

" The Canal " sounds good to me.

If you call it " The Ditch " then I will have to assume you live outta state.

We should rename the Panama Canal to the Panama Ditch then, right?

Man ....... itz gonna be a LOoooooong Winter, huh ?!

JohnR · 12-06-2007, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by maddog2020

Jeeez - some one dug this up ..... LOL.

Call it whatever ya want.

" The Canal " sounds good to me.

If you call it " The Ditch " then I will have to assume you live outta state.

We should rename the Panama Canal to the Panama Ditch then, right?

Man ....... itz gonna be a LOoooooong Winter, huh ?!

The Suez Canal is called "The Ditch" by mariners, the Panama Canal

referred to as "The Big Ditch" (think I'm seeing a trend). Seems the trend is that artificial gouges of earth are called ditches

art m · 01-05-2008, 12:06 AM

Low bridge ev'-ry bod-y down,
Low bridge for we're com-in to a town,
And you al-ways know your neighbor,
You'll always know your pal,
If you've ev-er navigated on the Er-ie ditch.

JohnR · 01-10-2008, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnR

The Suez Canal is called "The Ditch" by mariners, the Panama Canal is referred to as "The Big Ditch" (think I'm seeing a trend). Seems the trend is that artificial gouges of earth are called ditches

I'm quoting myself

Saltheart · 12-06-2007, 10:32 AM

When they dig it , its empty until the end. So for a long time , it is just a "Ditch". I have a friedn whose father worked digging the canal. She had pictures and its amazing how much was dug (wide , deep and long) and still no water in it.

maddog2020 · 12-06-2007, 12:48 PM

Is it over in Sandwich where they have a display of how the CCC was made?

Those would be some cool pics, Saltheart - it is possible for you to scan them/post them online for us? I'ld love to see them. I could look at old black and white photographs and listem to people's stories forever. My wife's grandmother was born at the turn of the century in England (Italian descent) and she showed me her birth certificate and bunch of old pictures. Of course every one else just walked away from her because they had hear the story 1000 times.

I'm facinated by stuff like that. Wish I had paid more attention to my grandparents where they were alive.

They didn't talk much coming over here and how tough life was back then. My father's family was too poor to eat rice so they would eat yams all the time. My mother loved yams so he would tote over a big sack when he come to visit her and he would cherish his bowl of rice. My mother use to buy yams and hide them when I was a kid and I thought they needed to be in dark places ...... LOL. It turned out my father would go ballistic when he found them!! He would yell and ask her WHY would you buy those things!! That never stopped mom from eating them.

Time has passed and my father eats yams now - may be it is just comfort food and it reminds him of her (she passed away back in 1996). Sorry... I regress as usual. Getting a little teary eyed thinking about it.