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Why a duck?
Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Friday, June 25, 2010 11:55 PM

BNSF Store ad on page 11 of the July magazine has some interesting merchandise. What caught my eye was the BNSF Duck for $6.99.

Unfortunately, all I find on the website is the Conductor Duck (literally a rubber duckie bath toy). Not that I'm entirely interested in either item (no rugrats or grandrugrats to give to), but an interesting merchandise selection.

Oh, and even though Groucho Marx was associated with ducks, he wasn't the one to ask, "Why a Duck?" (Even though that was the title of one of his books.)

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Saturday, June 26, 2010 12:04 AM

Right. It was Chico. Vy a duck, vy not a chicken. Because there's water there, that's vy a duck! COCONUTS 1929

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Posted by samfp1943 on Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:36 AM

Sign - Off Topic!!OOORRRRR!   MY favorite: The Marx Bros. Duck Soup     

or then again, The ARMY DUCK (DUKW)Confused:

Or more O/T foolishness!Sign - Oops

The Jeep was originally called the Peep and in some outfits the Dodges were Beeps (for BIG Jeep)

 And don't forget the Amphibious jeep was called  a SEEP!

 [The voices in my head are making strange requests now(?)AlienAlien

Why was a GG-1 never a Gee(?).  Why is an AEM-7 called a TOASTER ( there is no microwave oven in the cab)

How did the General Porpose-7, and all it's follow on bretheren, generally, get then name of GEEP(?) 

Why Were the SD's not called Seeps(?)     (Was it because they all had a porch down both sides?)  

 UP's big turbins cam both with, and without porches.

Was Big Boy originally a descriptive or derogatory term?   Was it the same for the UP's 'BIG BLOWS' ?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2010 12:36 PM

samfp1943
or then again, The ARMY DUCK (DUKW)Confused:

 

Yeah, it was the DUKW.

http://www.bostonducktours.com/duck_history_main.html

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:08 PM
samfp1943

[snip]

Why was a GG-1 never a Gee(?).  Why is an AEM-7 called a TOASTER ( there is no microwave oven in the cab)

How did the General Porpose-7, and all it's follow on bretheren, generally, get then name of GEEP(?) 

[snip]

The GG1's were referred to as "G's" or "G-motors".

The boxy look of the AEM-7's and their slightly sloped or sculptured ends - together with that mostly aluminum or stainless steel color, and the stripes, etc. - DO make them look like sleek modern-design 'toasters' on steroids - just scaled up by about a factor of 30 or 50 or so.

GEnEral Purpose = "GEEP"; I suppose the short-version of the SD's "Special Duty" would be something like "SPED" ???

I believe "Big Boy" and "Big Blow" were both descriptive and not derogatory, because they generally performed well.

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:07 PM

samfp1943

Sign - Off Topic!!OOORRRRR!   MY favorite: The Marx Bros. Duck Soup     

or then again, The ARMY DUCK (DUKW)Confused:

Or more O/T foolishness!Sign - Oops

The Jeep was originally called the Peep and in some outfits the Dodges were Beeps (for BIG Jeep)

 And don't forget the Amphibious jeep was called  a SEEP!

 [The voices in my head are making strange requests now(?)AlienAlien

Why was a GG-1 never a Gee(?).  Why is an AEM-7 called a TOASTER ( there is no microwave oven in the cab)

How did the General Porpose-7, and all it's follow on bretheren, generally, get then name of GEEP(?) 

Why Were the SD's not called Seeps(?)     (Was it because they all had a porch down both sides?)  

 UP's big turbins cam both with, and without porches.

Was Big Boy originally a descriptive or derogatory term?   Was it the same for the UP's 'BIG BLOWS' ?

( What's THE BEST SHAPE FOR A TINFOIL HAT?)Confused

 

From Duck Soup: I recommend 10 years in Leavenworth or 11 years in twelveworth.  Saw that recently and couldn't stop laughing..and i am actually more of a Three Stooges fan.
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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, June 27, 2010 8:11 AM

Item:  Lots of those "Army Ducks" were used over America in small towns, etc....to sell War Bonds.  Of course, used to draw the crowds.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:09 AM

samfp1943
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  The same shape as your head? Wink

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Posted by ndbprr on Sunday, June 27, 2010 2:23 PM
Actually the GG1 was named based on the fact that the PRR had a 4-6-0 G class steam engine. Hence a 4-6-0+0-6-4 became a GG1.
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Posted by Great Western on Sunday, June 27, 2010 3:11 PM

 Those who understand cricket will know that to achieve a score of nothing is known as 'a duck', for the shape of a figure zero which resembles a duck egg. Whistling

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Posted by Kevin C. Smith on Sunday, June 27, 2010 4:36 PM

Nobody understands cricket.
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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Sunday, June 27, 2010 4:55 PM

So what's to not understand?  It's simple.

They are telling you the temperature!  Count the number of chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to get the ambient temperture in Degrees Fahrenheit.

Of course, if they are not American Crickets then you count the chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3 and add 4 to get the temperature in Degrees Celcius.

 

In 1898 Amos Dolbear studied cricket chirp rates and found the timing to be based on the temperature of the crickets environment and came up with the cricket chirping temperature formula known as Dolbear's Law:

Degrees (F) = 50 + (Chirps per minute - 40) / 4

Again, if listening to non- American here is the Dolbears Law formula for degrees C:

Degrees (C) = 10 + (Chirps per minute - 40) / 7

But be aware that the cricket chirp temperature formula is based on the temperature of the cricket (probably close to the ground) not be the temperature where you are, sitting in your easy chair.

 

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:20 PM

How does Eleanor feel now that she has been replaced by a duck?

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Monday, June 28, 2010 12:37 AM
Deggesty

How does Eleanor feel now that she has been replaced by a duck?

Like certain pets, you let a topic loose and just see where it wanders, I guess.

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Posted by Great Western on Monday, June 28, 2010 5:43 AM

Kevin C. Smith

 

Nobody understands cricket.

 

Well most of our former Colonies do. Laugh

Just take a vacation in India; you will see what I mean.  

I guess if your War of Independence had been in the 19th. century you folks Stateside would be playing cricket instead of baseball.Wink

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, June 28, 2010 8:40 AM

ChuckCobleigh

BNSF Store ad on page 11 of the July magazine has some interesting merchandise. What caught my eye was the BNSF Duck for $6.99.

Unfortunately, all I find on the website is the Conductor Duck (literally a rubber duckie bath toy).



Maybe ducks are the *in* thing now.  My 11 year old just got back from Boy Scout camp.  The popular items at the camp souvenir store were rubber duckies..  We are now the proud owner of a pirate duck, a Batman duck and a Green Lantern duck.  Who knew, that the Green Lantern would someday return to the crime fighting scene....as a duck.

     I guess I would have to give credit to the hardworking folks at the Rubber Duckie Anti-defamation League, and the Duckies Unlimited organization. Thumbs Up

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Posted by samfp1943 on Monday, June 28, 2010 8:50 AM

AND, I GUESS,

HOWARD the DUCKCool will allways be just a memorySigh in a forgotten movieZzz?   

Where is RDADL when you really need them??Whistling

 

 


 

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