Searching for control and came across PID PY1148 named "POONTANG"
Just surprised to see a control station named that slang term. I guess we would have to ask the 1962 NGS crew what they were thinking...
We aren't even doing anything here except flying imagery of the top of that peak for a client, I actually just was looking to see what state and SPC zone the area was for outputting Airborne GPS positions at the photo centers, it is close to where ID/MT/WY all come together so I wanted to make sure I had the correct state and zone, no plans to go there.
SHG
Shelby H. Griggs PLS, post: 449514, member: 335 wrote: PID PY1148 named "POONTANG"
Funny, doesn't look like POONTANG...
Kinda beat-up though.
I have actually been to that point, right next to an FAA radar/communications station.
www.terrasurv.com/images/poontang.jpg
I was up there when we were doing USGS DOQQ control in Idaho back around 1997 or so.
John Hamilton, post: 449519, member: 640 wrote: I have actually been to that point, right next to an FAA radar/communications station.
www.terrasurv.com/images/poontang.jpgI was up there when we were doing USGS DOQQ control in Idaho back around 1997 or so.
Yes there is a radar site there, not our customer, another federal agency though, we actually acquired imagery on about 10 sites last week on this milk run, I have ID-E, ID-C and UT-N coordinates all within an ET of 140 minutes that I am pulling from single trajectory processing run.
SHG
I guess Radar's picture is of the station itself, mine was of the azimuth mark.
Probably some feminist beat on the station mark so that it was unreadable!
RADAR, post: 449517, member: 413 wrote:
Funny, doesn't look like POONTANG...
Kinda beat-up though.
Folks probably thought that would be a good one for a souvenir! The azimuth mark is actually a FBN/CBN.
SHG
"I smell varmint poontang, and the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang"
GMPLS, post: 449541, member: 8404 wrote: "I smell varmint poontang, and the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang"
"If I'm going to die for a word, my word is POONTANG" ~Animal Mother
[SARCASM]So that is what getting hit too much looks like.[/SARCASM]
Don't blame NGS, PY1148 was MONUMENTED 1962 by USGS.
I have found a few slur-inspired mark names, mostly set around WW2 in Alaska.
Now, OPUS projects supposedly has a filter which has reserved or blacklisted a few colorful terms (please don't test it!)
There are several control points locally with unique names. One of the more recent finds was, "NIRVANA" ironically enough, Smells Like Teen Spirit was playing on the radio at the time as well.... We also have a JIHAD.
Shelby H. Griggs PLS, post: 449514, member: 335 wrote: Searching for control and came across PID PY1148 named "POONTANG"
Just surprised to see a control station named that slang term. I guess we would have to ask the 1962 NGS crew what they were thinking...
SHG
well isn't it pretty obvious what they were thinking...?
I wonder if an non surveyors happened across that disk and instinctively looked in the direction of that arrow.
From http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Poontang
Poontang is a punch made from the fermented juice from the rare, very bushy poonberry tree. It became immensely popular during colonial times, when it was a firm favorite amongst the Founding Fathers, drunk constantly by George Washington, as evidenced by his farewell address, I only took the job for the poontang. The first known mention of the word "poontang" was in a 1794 issue of Ladies' Home Journal when it documented the adventures of up-and-coming golfer Grizzly Adams "...it seemed that all Grizzly wanted was some of her sweete, sweete, poontanige..." It quickly spread from one town to another, the first recorded recipe was printed in Ye Boston Globe. It was widely regarded as "fahkin' retahded" and poontang became widespread.
