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.)
Right. It was Chico. Vy a duck, vy not a chicken. Because there's water there, that's vy a duck! COCONUTS 1929
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
OOORRRRR! MY favorite: The Marx Bros. Duck Soup
or then again, The ARMY DUCK (DUKW):
Or more O/T foolishness!
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(?)
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?)
samfp1943or then again, The ARMY DUCK (DUKW):
Yeah, it was the DUKW.
http://www.bostonducktours.com/duck_history_main.html
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]
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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.
- Paul North.
samfp1943OOORRRRR! MY favorite: The Marx Bros. Duck Soup or then again, The ARMY DUCK (DUKW): Or more O/T foolishness! 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(?) 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?)
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.
Quentin
samfp1943( What's THE BEST SHAPE FOR A TINFOIL HAT?)
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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.
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
https://www.buckfast.org.uk/
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
How does Eleanor feel now that she has been replaced by a duck?
Johnny
DeggestyHow 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.
Kevin C. Smith Nobody understands cricket.
Nobody understands cricket.
Well most of our former Colonies do.
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.
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).
Unfortunately, all I find on the website is the Conductor Duck (literally a rubber duckie bath toy).
AND, I GUESS,
HOWARD the DUCK will allways be just a memory in a forgotten movie?
Where is RDADL when you really need them??
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