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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.

 

 

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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. 

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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. 

 

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3 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

No it wasn't urine, it used to be a caffeinated lemon drink and was pretty nice

 

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Edited by sassnetguy50
Edit- Wikipedia says the mugger crocodile (U shaped snout) is native to Iran.
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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.

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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.

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2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Melbourne Postmen riding their Penny Farthings with training wheels on, Circa 1880

(with training wheels ???)

 

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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.

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Imagine the PIA of having to keep climbing on and off the damn thing.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

 

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