Monday morning after a rough weekend.
Or like the Kanayama strop stamp, that is miss spelled Kanoyama, they used it for years before someone told them about the mis spelling, they did not read English. They just shrugged, and continued using it.
There is a part in a Tony Hillerman, Joe Leaphorn book where Jim Chee and his friends are watching an old Western at a drive-in, the Cavalry and some big wigs are having a face to face with the waring Apache’s, the Chief walks up to the General and says something very serious, supposedly in Apache, and everybody watching the movie starts laughing hysterically.
The Army scout translates, “He said, the chief is Honored to meet with the General and the Secretary”, or some such drivel and everyone laughs again.
Chee’s girlfriend who is Navajo but does not speak Navajo, asks, “What was so funny?”
Chee says, Hollywood hired a bunch of Navajos to play the Apaches in the movie. When he walked up to the General, he tells the General, “Everybody says you have a very small pecker”.
The Hillerman series is a great read, at one time AAA had an “Indian Country” map of the 4 Corners, with a bunch of the spots marked that were depicted in Tony’s books. A lot of good history in those fiction books, he was a great storyteller.