Factoid: Skookum Jim Mason (Keish was his Tagish name) is credited with discovering the Klondike gold strike. He was born in Lake Bennett, Yukon Territory. He was dubbed “Skookum” Jim because of his extraordinary strength.
I’ve heard it in Ontario and the Maritimes–but strictly out of the mouths of BC folks.
There’s a Skookumchuck trail in the White Mountains of NH so it traveled east.
I do hope Quelqu’un is a francophone. I would hate to think Quelqu’un is an anglophone who has casually appropriated a term from outside his/her culture because it sounds good as a message board nickname.
As ftg says, Skookum is more of a Pacific Northwest coastal native word than a Canadian one.
There is a Skookumchuck River and Skookumchuck state fish hatchery in the state of Washington.
Same here!
I can just imagine the look on my wife’s face as she tries to borrow my ruler to measure something small and sees that special scale on the end.
(Well, that and I’m not a welder. Now if he did a standard machinist’s ruler with stuff like drill sizes than I’d be more interested.)
Eastern Washington has North and South Skookum Lakes. They are pretty small and near the Kalispel Tribe Reservation. I think the Skookum lakes would be in their historic tribal lands but I’m not sure of the history of how they were named.
I need a briefing as to how one is supposed to use the Pecker Detector.
He did - the welder’s ruler is a new one - the original is here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-them-all-cheeky-jokes
huh. Quelqu’Un has disappeared.
Oh, crap, somebody appropriated him!
With or without compensation? 
That’s really odd. I didn’t think that was supposed to happen on the dope.
Never heard it here in Ohio, but I like it and will try to start using it!
I’ve seen it happen a handful of times in the few months I’ve been here. Someone turns out to be a spammer “warming up” with a couple of legit posts or a returning banned user, and if they have few posts with little impact, their posts are removed. For example, there was someone called “Fossilene” who’s first post was actually relevant and useful, but now exists only in a quotes with the originals tossed down the memory hole.
Yes, AVE’s channel is skookum as fuck.
“Pretty skookum” is a saying I’ve heard in the NW.
It’s a reasonably common word here on the west coast, with great local flair. I find it to be a perfectly cromulent word. 
…and still, despite the rapturing of one of our posters, I’m still left with no information about how best to employ the Pecker Detector.
If you learn some basic jargon terms and then drive around the wetter parts of the PNW you’ll see Chinook jargon terms all over. E.g., Tumwater, WA: “Loud water”, from the waterfall.
One example that went into some usage in English is “hyas muckamuck” which became “high mucketymuck”, the big boss.
Unfortunately, for the word “Chinook” itself the term “Chinook wind” means a wet, warm, marine wind but somehow got perverted to mean a dry, warm, downslope wind.
I thought it was the same wind. It just dropped all of its moisture on the Kootenays on its way to melt the snow in southern Alberta.
I’ve always heard mucky muck. But that’s coming from my dad. Don’t think I’ve heard anyone else say that (or mucketymuck for that matter).