[AT] OT don't take any Buffalo Nickels and weather.

[Mogrits]

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> Farmer:
>

 Farmer,

I'm 5 days late but want to say I really enjoy the posts you make like
this. You too, Cecil. And all the rest of you.

I hope the ATIS list is well archived somewhere because there is a real
wealth of information shared by all it's members.

I still sorely miss George Willer and will never forget my visit with Herb
Metz at his home.

I  think I need to add Portland to my bucket list to meet you folks.

Warren

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> On 6/23/2019 2:52 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
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> I find this discussion a little surprising... I was taught in about the
> 6th grade (in a small rural school in the 1950's) that what we all call
> buffalo are really scientifically true bison and that early explorers were
> just guessing as to what they were. It was much like them thinking at first
> that this was the far side of the world and them calling everybody
> "Indians". The name just stuck and so did buffalo.
> Even back when I was in school it was understood that most people would
> probably always continue to call them buffalo in casual conservation and I
> still do. By the time I learned that they were really bison I had already
> learned the words dog, cat, cow etc. and bison was a strange sounding name
> to me.
> Languages are funny things... Always evolving but not always in a good
> way. I have a few pet peeves from more recent years about how people
> butcher things. I watch a lot of DIY stuff and keep saying (mostly to the
> TV screen) "No, that is not ship-lap. Every old 8" board is not ship-lap!"
> or "No that is not a "cinder block! It is either a cement block or a
> concrete block... It is only a cinder block if it was produced using
> cinders for the aggregate and very few of those are being produced these
> days."
> Rambling farther off track (not a cinder track).  :-)
> When Diana and I got married in June 1963 we rented a small house at the
> edge of town for a year and a half that was on a full basement all made of
> actual cinder block. When that first winter came along I got a real shock.
> The cinders were quite coarse and the block walls were not even close to
> being air tight. When the winter winds began to howl you could not heat the
> basement. If you lit a candle (I really did) and held it next to the west
> wall on a high wind day it would blow the candle out.
> Speaking of languages, we have become friends with a Greek family who have
> a local gyro based restaurant (pronounced ˈyērō). Really nice family. We
> were eating there a day or two ago and a lady and I believe her daughter
> sat a the booth behind me and were chatting. I wasn't sure what language
> they were speaking but it wasn't English. When things slowed down our
> friends came out to visit with them and I realized that that they had been
> chatting in Greek. It was a happy visit for the 4 of them and I had to
> chuckle a few times as they talked listening to them as all 4 of them
> flip-flopped from Greek to English over and over again. It was maybe about
> 60% Greek and 40% English. Our friends are quite good at English so it was
> funny hearing the sudden  shift from rapid fire Greek to a perfectly
> enunciated full sentence or more in English then instantly back to Greek. I
> can only assume that some thoughts just might be easier to express in
> English and some easier in Greek. We have some Chinese friends but they
> always speak all Chinese or all English. We also have Hispanic friends and
> family and they also speak mostly all one or the other. I have always
> wished I could learn other languages but while I have learned many thing in
> my time, other languages are just not a big part of my skill set. I do
> speak American English, British English, Australian English and a little
> New  Zealand English...  :-)  I do also speak a little dog, cat and horse.
> .
> Dang! I'm getting burned out on daily raining... Crops are all over the
> place in quality and some fields are still not planted and still standing
> water. One problem with a really wet spring here is that if the ground
> stays too wet too long the corn will not put down many deep roots then if
> it suddenly turns very dry it doesn't have a root system deep enough to get
> good moisture. If that happens the guys that use irrigation here may
> benefit from its use.
> It's been "interesting" with these everyday rains going past the local
> Whitecastle joint in a down pour of rain and seeing their sprinkler system
> running. It must be under "corporate control".
>
>
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