The birthday thread got me to thinking about something I didn't know until a few months ago. I watched the Lone Ranger faithfully as a kid right along with Sky King, Bat Masterson, Roy Rogers, Wanted Dead or Alive, The Rifleman, etc. Here's a tidbit I didnt' know then:
"In Navajo, on the other hand, “kemosabe” translates as “soggy shrub.” If this seems an odd thing for faithful friend Tonto to call the Lone Ranger, perhaps he was just repaying the Ranger's long-standing insult. “Tonto,” after all, is a Spanish word meaning “stupid.”
Jake
