Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 From Wikipedia: Alligators are native to only the United States and China. I wonder where that ‘gator came from? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator#:~:text=Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago. 2 1 Quote
Alpo Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 7 hours ago, sassnetguy50 said: https://ifpnews.com/alligator-makes-it-to-industrial-no-go-zone-photos/ That "alligator" is a crocodile. Look at the snout. Just because the idiot "reporter" in Iran called it an alligator in the paper don't mean it is. 3 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted July 25, 2023 Author Posted July 25, 2023 27 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: From Wikipedia: Alligators are native to only the United States and China. I wonder where that ‘gator came from? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator#:~:text=Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago. Learnt something today that gators are native to China. 1 Quote
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 6 minutes ago, Alpo said: That "alligator" is a crocodile. Look at the snout. Just because the idiot "reporter" in Iran called it an alligator in the paper don't mean it is. Maybe. But that snout looks more alligatory in the third image. Image below shows gator on the left and croc on the right. 4 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted July 25, 2023 Author Posted July 25, 2023 8 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: more alligatory " more alligatory " .....love it! 2 2 Quote
Alpo Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 3 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: No it wasn't urine, it used to be a caffeinated lemon drink and was pretty nice Mello yello is the Coca-Cola version of Mountain Dew. Still sold here in the states. Might I presume, from your "used to be comment", that it is no longer sold in Oz? 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted July 25, 2023 Author Posted July 25, 2023 38 minutes ago, Alpo said: Mello yello is the Coca-Cola version of Mountain Dew. Still sold here in the states. Might I presume, from your "used to be comment", that it is no longer sold in Oz? Pretty sure its not sold here anymore Alpo. 2 Quote
sassnetguy50 Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Alpo said: That "alligator" is a crocodile. Look at the snout. Just because the idiot "reporter" in Iran called it an alligator in the paper don't mean it is. You expect a reporter to be accurate? That is a thing of the past. Edited July 25, 2023 by sassnetguy50 Edit- Wikipedia says the mugger crocodile (U shaped snout) is native to Iran. 2 1 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted July 25, 2023 Author Posted July 25, 2023 Melbourne Postmen riding their Penny Farthings with training wheels on, Circa 1880 (with training wheels ???) 2 3 Quote
Alpo Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 I don't believe those are penny farthings. A penny farthing is a bicycle. The front wheel is huge and the back wheel is tiny. A farthing was a fourth of a penny, so a farthing was much smaller than a penny. Having a big wheel and a little wheel, penny farthing made sense. Those things are either unicycles with four training wheels or quintacycles. But they don't have a single little bitty wheel in the back, so I don't believe they would be penny farthings. 2 1 Quote
sassnetguy50 Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Melbourne Postmen riding their Penny Farthings with training wheels on, Circa 1880 (with training wheels ???) Those are pentacycles, designed for rural postmen in Sussex. They could be ordered with front and/or rear baskets to carry the mail. They were reported to be difficult to ride as the steering system was designed for ease of manufacturing rather than ease of use on rough rural roads. 6 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 Imagine the PIA of having to keep climbing on and off the damn thing. 2 3 Quote
Cactus Jack Calder Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, Alpo said: I don't believe those are penny farthings. A penny farthing is a bicycle. The front wheel is huge and the back wheel is tiny. A farthing was a fourth of a penny, so a farthing was much smaller than hya penny. Having a big wheel and a little wheel, penny farthing made sense. Those things are either unicycles with four training wheels or quintacycles. But they don't have a single little bitty wheel in the back, so I don't believe they would be penny farthings. Good call, Alpo. Quintacycles is a good descriptive word for those vehicles. Notice the steering is carried out by the two small wheels in the front, not the large drive wheel. Also, there is no single small wheel in the back to be in the Farthing position. The two small wheels in the rear are the support wheels not just balance wheels. Training wheels are set to allow the cycle to rock from side to side a small amount. Allowing the cyclist to learn to maintain the vehicle off of the training wheels support. CJ Edited July 26, 2023 by Cactus Jack Calder Ratsin, Fratsin OTTO 3 2 Quote
Alpo Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 Oh yes, the fire ant. Came to the port of Mobile Alabama, from Brazil, in a cargo of bananas. Spread over the entire South. "Considered quite able to kill people"? They've done it. 2 3 Quote
Major Crimes Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 On 7/24/2023 at 11:22 AM, Brazos John said: That could also be in Louisiana or Texas. He has his union card, right? Found these other photos, it looks alligatorish in some of them. As safety engineer, what you will do first ? - Engineer Ability | Facebook 1 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted July 28, 2023 Author Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) How to weigh a koala Edited July 28, 2023 by Buckshot Bear 3 1 1 Quote
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted July 29, 2023 Posted July 29, 2023 given the expression , it has figured our , what the leaves were used for 1 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted July 31, 2023 Author Posted July 31, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Alpo said: LOL......could you imagine the hate you'd get from PETA types wearing them !!!!! Edited July 31, 2023 by Buckshot Bear 5 Quote
Major Crimes Posted July 31, 2023 Posted July 31, 2023 4 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: LOL......could you imagine the hate you'd get from PETA types wearing them !!!!! This is his spare pair 5 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted July 31, 2023 Author Posted July 31, 2023 9 minutes ago, Major Crimes said: This is his spare pair Hahahaha Quote
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted July 31, 2023 Posted July 31, 2023 9 hours ago, Major Crimes said: This is his spare pair I thought Australia was trying to minimize anything to do with China. So how about these? 1 1 4 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted July 31, 2023 Posted July 31, 2023 4 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: ....... correct ! 2 2 Quote
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