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Coppy
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Jerkwater? Oh man, I just can't even begin to speculate on this one. So I'll just look it up because I know no one else knows:
Jerkwater may refer to a remote or unimportant town that is out of the way, and that term probably came from the jerkwater rural trains that operated on the earliest branches of the American railroad system. These trains didn't run on the main line, but rather into some of the most remote parts of the country.
The steam trains, were called jerkwaters, as in jerk + water, in reference to pulling the valve on the water tank to fill the engine boiler.
And... just when I thought I had all the info I needed to satisfy this answer in only the best way I know how, i found this:
| Quote: | A jerkwater train was originally a small locomotive or stagecoach that serviced branch lines. Its small boiler requiring frequent filling by train crews which would have to dismount, form a bucket brigade, and jerk water from a river to feed the steam engine or the horses. From the Overland Monthly of March 1869:
..."jerkwater" stages, which had been three or four days making the trip of one hundred and ten miles from Hamilton with passengers for the mines.
By the end of the 19th century, jerkwater was being applied as an adjective meaning rustic, small, or inconsequential. From the Chicago Tribune, 25 July 1897:
John J. Ingalls regards the Swiss Mission as a jerkwater job, and would not take it if it were offered to him. |
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.45chel
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I apologize, I thought you would get a kick out of it.
Q: Where does the name of the constellation Andromeda come from?
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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ooh ooh! pick me! i love this area (the science olympian is coming out on this one)
it's a show by gene rodenberry.
(j/k...sort of...well, it was one)
but...
it's from greek mythology (sigh...i <3 <3 <3 greek mythology SO MUCH) after princess andromeda.
ew. i'm a nerd. i had to delve deeper:
wiki:
It is most notable for containing the Andromeda Galaxy. It is sometimes called "The Chained Maiden" in English.
sigh.
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.45chel
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Mythology was always one of my favorite things too, Cookie. (cyber-sister wha?!  )
One of my uncles was very disappointed after he found out that Loki was one of my favorite characters. (In my defense, I had only read of a few of his shenanigans at the time and had not gotten to the truly rotten stuff he had done!!) 
Then I moved on to fairy tales: Hans Christian Anderson, Grimm Brothers -- I like them pre-Disney though, gruesome contents and endings intact.
Edited to add the bolded.
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: |
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cyber-sisters fo'sho!!!
have you read:
the woman who lives in the earth (by swain wolfe)
women who run with the wolves (blanking on the author....on the tip'o'my'tonge)
i think, if you like mythologies and its evolotion, that you may enjoy these "modern" ones
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| oh, btw...i am a fan of the persephone story. and narcissus and echo (so sad!) |
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John Chambersburg
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: black truffle sauce |
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| Black Truffle Sauce...this is something new to me. It is very delicious. I had it over leg of lamb this week. Don't miss trying it. |
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.45chel
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome John!!!
Black truffle sauce, locally?
SQUEEEEEeeeeeee!!!
Do tell!
Where might I find such exquisiteness around here?
Tell me Tell me Tellme TellmeTellme
Please please please!!!
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Coppy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hold on, truffle sauce? HERE? WHERE!!!?
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John Chambersburg
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| Just down the road 15 minutes...Airport Inn (just north of Hagerstown). My boss and his wife took us there last week and insisted I have leg of lamb which I had never ate in my life. It was very delicious. |
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Coppy
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Nick's.
That's a good place; it's a little stuffy-old-man, but a great place for a special occasion. |
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cookieclaygirl
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| never been there. my parent's went there once in a blue moon and liked it. agreed...for "special" occasions.... |
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.45chel
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Awwww.
I not special.
nor do I have occasions
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.45chel
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Q: Russia and the United States are often very far apart politically.
However, they may be closer than you think. What is the shortest
distance between the US and Russia and for Bonus, what is the name of
the land bodies on each side of the border?
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Coppy
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Ugh, chel, you know you shouldn't give us the hard ones on a Friday...
I really don't know this but I'm going to guess the shortest distance, from Alaska's last Alutian Island to mainland Russia is about 65 miles. I'm getting this because I once heard that on the clearest of clear days, you may be able to see Russian from American soil.
For the bonus, I'm going to go with Alutian Islands for Alaska, but I have no clue what the Russian side is called... but I bet it's hard to pronounce.  |
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