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Basin/French history?
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MMT 1000 Club  Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:58 pm Posts: 2731 Location: Lafayette, LA 
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 Basin/French history?I was just wondering if any fellow Cajuns know how "Bayou Cowan" got its name.
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| Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:01 pm |
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MMT Super Elite Member  Joined: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:20 pm Posts: 11166 Location: Cecilia, LA
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Re: Basin/French history? "Cowan" in my part of cajun country means pussy.
_________________ Formerly:1648 Homemade Cypress Crawfish Skiff GTR23 Performance Cam and Heads; 17x46 Gator Tail with 35GTR and Hoyt's cam;s Currently: 17x48 Gator Tail with XD40 EFI. “Wisdom is not just expertise. It is knowing how much of various areas of expertise you need to know in order to make the decisions that the world needs and that you want to do,” Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. |
| Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:05 pm |
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MMT Elite Member  Joined: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:50 pm Posts: 9673 Location: New Iberia, La.
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Re: Basin/French history? Dang Dean you didn't beat around the bush...lol
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| Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:14 pm |
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MMT Super Elite Member Joined: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:20 pm Posts: 11166 Location: Cecilia, LA
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Re: Basin/French history? I know my stuff. As to how it was named? No telling. There's also " Coulée a Roupet" which means "coulée of the testicle" and was thought to have been named that because the water came up to your balls when you crossed it.
_________________ Formerly:1648 Homemade Cypress Crawfish Skiff GTR23 Performance Cam and Heads; 17x46 Gator Tail with 35GTR and Hoyt's cam;s Currently: 17x48 Gator Tail with XD40 EFI. “Wisdom is not just expertise. It is knowing how much of various areas of expertise you need to know in order to make the decisions that the world needs and that you want to do,” Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. |
| Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:31 pm |
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MMT Elite Member  Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:19 pm Posts: 6441 Location: Trinity Bay - Texas
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Re: Basin/French history? _________________ Eat - Sleep - Hunt ! ! ! "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." |
| Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:18 pm |
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MMT Super Elite Member Joined: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:20 pm Posts: 11166 Location: Cecilia, LA
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Re: Basin/French history? I found this too: Southern Louisiana, snapping turtles are eaten as a delicacy. The Cajun people call them "Cowan", which means something in the Cajun language. That is the only reference there is to Cowan and Snapping turtles. Joan
Read more: http://www.justanswer.com/pet-reptile/5 ... z3YBRT5WpR _________________ Formerly:1648 Homemade Cypress Crawfish Skiff GTR23 Performance Cam and Heads; 17x46 Gator Tail with 35GTR and Hoyt's cam;s Currently: 17x48 Gator Tail with XD40 EFI. “Wisdom is not just expertise. It is knowing how much of various areas of expertise you need to know in order to make the decisions that the world needs and that you want to do,” Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. |
| Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:52 pm |
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MMT 1000 Club Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:58 pm Posts: 2731 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Re: Basin/French history? I'm leaning more to the French meaning as everything around here has the French influence, not so much Scottish.
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| Thu Apr 23, 2015 7:07 pm |
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Joined: Sun Sep 07, 2014 4:50 pm Posts: 36
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Re: Basin/French history? I had a girlfriend once that had a Cowan like a snapping turtle. Damn I hated loosing her.
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| Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:12 pm |
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MMT Elite Member  Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:39 pm Posts: 6976 Location: West Monroe, LA
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Re: Basin/French history? |
| Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:32 am |
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Joined: Tue Dec 23, 2014 3:06 pm Posts: 314 Location: Bridge City
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Re: Basin/French history? Found this on the www...
Cowan -- "cow-WANH" -- little turtle. Ever notice those little turtles that sunbathe on logs? Bayou Cowan is famous for (and got its name from) its turtle population. http://bryantsweb.com/cajund.html |
| Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:19 am |
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MMT Super Elite Member Joined: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:20 pm Posts: 11166 Location: Cecilia, LA
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Re: Basin/French history? Cowan = snapping vagina
Makes sense to me!! _________________ Formerly:1648 Homemade Cypress Crawfish Skiff GTR23 Performance Cam and Heads; 17x46 Gator Tail with 35GTR and Hoyt's cam;s Currently: 17x48 Gator Tail with XD40 EFI. “Wisdom is not just expertise. It is knowing how much of various areas of expertise you need to know in order to make the decisions that the world needs and that you want to do,” Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. |
| Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:54 am |
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Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:59 pm Posts: 191
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Re: Basin/French history? Lmfao. This has turned out great. Ol boy said he had a girl that would clamp down on him like a snapping turtle. I heard they didn't let go until lighting strikes. How many kids do u have with her
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| Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:25 am |
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MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:37 pm Posts: 2577
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Re: Basin/French history? cowan is the regular snapping turtle with the smooth shell, not alligator snapper...i think.
some people, more in the west,call pussy cowan too. here it is common for the elders to refer to pussy as pacon..(pecan). the reason might be that cowan and pacon and pussy are related is that they are all pretty damn good? |
| Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:46 am |
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Joined: Sun Sep 07, 2014 4:50 pm Posts: 36
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Re: Basin/French history? No kids with her, but she could make that thing talk to yeah. When she would lock on it was all over!
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