So often during the past 19 years of Pasty Cam photos, we’ve featured people enjoying various activities here in the U.P. Today we look back at a few of those times, starting with a shot from Patricia & Michael Forgrave taken in 2004. That’s their son, Stephan looking pretty small, standing on the edge of Lake Superior's vastness. Neat how they captured the feel of big and small in this shot.

In 2006, Debra McCumber took a photo of the morning gathering at the hunting camp. These unsuspecting hunters were gathered around the pickup truck, planning out their hunting strategies for the day. They all look pretty serious there. Note the sunshine and no snow. Not the case this year here in the Keweenaw.

The photo Chris Gariepy snapped back in 2009 shows another snowless November. What a great shot of his boys taking a drive in the unseasonably warm sunshine that day. It’s great to watch kids having fun like this. Of note... the young man driving the little green jeep, is actually driving for real now, with a learner’s permit, that is!

Today’s video shows some Copper Country kids who are part of a Kivajat Finnish Dance group here in the Chassell area. They perform at various events around the area and even made a trip to Finland to perform in 2015. I don’t know the name of the dance they are performing at the 2012 Parade of Nations and International performance, but they have to dance around the sticks on the stage and if they touch a stick, they have to sit down. Quite a vigorous workout when the music starts getting faster and faster...

Kudos to the young people that reached...The Finnish Line.
And I forgot all about deer season...I wonder how it's playing out this year.

Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex):
Kudos to the young people that reached...The Finnish Line. …"

Groannnn! Now step up and collect your pun-ishment!

Its all Greek to me. :-)

Kudos comes from Greek and means ‘praise’. Despite appearances, it is not a plural form. This means that there is no singular form kudo and that the use of kudos as a plural, as in the following sentence, is incorrect: he received many kudos for his work (correct use is he received much kudos for his work)

Origin:, Late 18th century Greek.

Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex):
"… Kudos comes from Greek and means ‘praise’. Despite appearances, it is not a plural form. This means that there is no singular form kudo and that the use of kudos as a plural, as in the following sentence, is incorrect: he received many kudos for his work (correct use is he received much kudos for his work) …"

It didn't occur to me that "kudos" was either; perhaps both singular and plural like "moose". It was the forward and back transformation from English to Finnish and back again by Google Translate that I found amusing.

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Is kudo a word?

"Some commentators hold that since kudos is a singular word it cannot be used as a plural and that the word kudo is impossible. But kudo does exist; it is simply one of the most recent words created by back-formation from another word misunderstood as a plural. Kudos was introduced into English in the 19th century; it was used in contexts where a reader unfamiliar with Greek could not be sure whether it was singular or plural. By the 1920s it began to appear as a plural, and about 25 years later kudo began to appear. It may have begun as a misunderstanding, but then so did cherry and pea."

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kudo
"A term used by idiots thinking that it is the singulal [sic] form of kudos when kudos is accualy [sic] the singular form of 'kudos' the plural form of kudos is pronounced 'coo-doze' and the singular form is pronounced 'coo-dose' both are spelled the same.
On Dictionary.com kudo is defined as a real word. under the defanition [sic] of kudos they explain that kudo is incorrect. you may be thinking 'But if lots of people use it it's a word' well lots of people are really <bleep>in' stupid, too, should we just accept their standards?

Thanks to George Carlin

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RIP, George. One of my favorite lines by him: "Tonight's low 35, tomorrow's high...whenever I get up, man." (Hippy Dippy Weatherman)