About 40 years ago I was working at a construction site for a couple of months so got to know most of the workers.?ÿ One day several guys were discussing a nearby small town and how it would be holding it's annual celebration that weekend.?ÿ There would be a parade, speakers, awards for things like oldest man present, oldest woman present, and a beautiful baby contest.?ÿ One of the workers, a grizzled old, very tough, coot said he had attended that celebration every year and, in fact, he had won the beautiful baby contest when he was entered.?ÿ We were astonished.?ÿ One of us then asked, "Were you the only baby entered that year?"
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Fast forward to yesterday.?ÿ A different nearby small town was holding their annual celebration.?ÿ I took my "new" old car up and was in the parade.?ÿ Waved at many friends along the three block route.?ÿ After parking the kit car--1927 Mercedes-Benz Gazelle--I headed to the main building to buy one of their pulled pork lunches.?ÿ The lady who had helped with the parade line up tracked me down and handed me $25.?ÿ She told me I had won the prize for most outstanding automobile entry.?ÿ She also pointed out that I was the only one in that category.?ÿ I then told her the above beautiful baby contest story.
Plan to be in two parades this coming Saturday.
pictures of the MB gazelle please
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The kit car is built on a Pinto chassis with a four-cylinder Ford engine and an automatic transmission.?ÿ The chassis, engine and transmission all came from different vehicles.?ÿ A doctor bought the kit probably 10 years ago and never got around to building the car.?ÿ He donated the kit to our local high school.?ÿ Once they hired an automotive technology instructor, they began to tinker with this a little at a time.?ÿ Five years later they had completed it.?ÿ It is not slick like a rebuilder for auto shows would do, but it is plenty nice enough for me.?ÿ I don't think in 1927 that it would have had bucket seats or the fancy steering wheel.?ÿ You will note there is no air filter under the hood.?ÿ We are looking for a smaller version than normal that can fit under the hood.
Here is a similar car.?ÿ It is a bit fancier than mine.?ÿ I don't have the horns, for example.?ÿ But, I do have the MB ornament atop the radiator.
Speaking of beautiful baby contests, I twice judged such a thing in a town in the next state where my daughter was employed.?ÿ No local preferential treatment that way.?ÿ I always gave extra points to the cute babies with ugly mamas because they had needed to overachieve so much.
Hope the Pinto's gas tank position was modified :). Jp
Hope the Pinto's gas tank position was modified :). Jp
Gas cap's in the rear...sooo it's probably close to where it was in the Pinto chassis.?ÿ?ÿ
Not to worry though.?ÿ If the car is usually in 'parade duty' nobody will scuttle you from the rear at going very fast.?ÿ?ÿ
Plan to be in two parades this coming Saturday.
Sweet car. ?????ÿ
(next parade could I ride in the back seat and throw water balloons at the onlookers?)
Sure. ?ÿDon't be surprised if they throw something back.. Cow chips, for example.
Sure. ?ÿDon't be surprised if they throw something back.. Cow chips, for example.
OK. Serious question here HC...
What's the diff between a cow chip and a cow pie??ÿ
I personally don't see "chips" when I spot a pile in situ, I see "pies".?ÿ Just wondering if there was any distinction twix the twain.
now, that got me laughing
IMVHO,
a cow pie is a fresh enough dropping that it is like warm squishy mud that you definitely do not want to step in or run over with a tire because it splatters everywhere
a cow chip is a dried out dropping that you can sail like a frisbee or pile up and burn in the winter or crumble and spread around like fertilizer
OK.?ÿ I'll buy that, it makes sense.?ÿ And it really was a serious question.?ÿ You see I was raised by folks that spoke plain.?ÿ Anything that came from the south end of a northbound cow was just cow sh*t...no matter its humidity index.?ÿ The same went for horses, dogs, cats or birds.?ÿ I never heard any euphemisms until I was older.?ÿ
I am rather fond of the term "meadow muffins" though.?ÿ I guess those could either be fresh or dehydrated.
I am a natural farm boy that knew what animal had left it and how long it had been sitting there before I started 1st grade. The Harris' were farmers before my generation. Only one of my cousins still keeps up with the truck farming lifestyle.
One Halloween around 1968 a classmate took his dad's new 2 ton flatbed truck high wood panels that would hold dairy cows and loaded up a hoard of plastic sandwich bags of fresh droppings from their dairy to sail at people, vehicles and whatever as he and his "gang of snuff dippers" as they rode thru the middle of town in what soon became called the "Warwagon", in place of eggs or water balloons.
I was on foot with a backpack of water balloons and saw many a person completely disappear into the dimly lighted streets after getting hit in the back with a sack of that crap.
It all came to a very climatic end at the carwash in the wee hours of the night when he had to wash it off before taking it back home.
That boy had to buy a couple of windshields, pay a multitude of fines for littering (that one always gets me over and over), a couple of small claims and assault charges.
Today, a person would never get out of jail from the ordinary things that happened on a daily basis before 1970.
The majority of the Plains Indians used buffalo pies/poop/Frisbee for heating in the winter.?ÿ
A. Harris nailed it. ?ÿHe knows his s#it. ?ÿThat's why they don't have cow pie throwing contests.
The majority of the Plains Indians used buffalo pies/poop/Frisbee for heating in the winter.?ÿ
OK.?ÿ I guess if you were cold enough you'd try to burn anything to keep warm.?ÿ And in case there is anybody out there that hasn't seen this picture (that was in every Oklahoma History textbook I ever saw). here 'tis:
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As the story goes this lady was gathering buffalo patties to burn to keep warm.?ÿ Now here's where I start to wonder about things.?ÿ I've seen plenty of scorched prairie in my days.?ÿ Almost all of the grass fires I've seen seem to skim over the bovine dropping and leave them pretty much untouched.?ÿ And I do admit that grass fires move quickly. But I have personally thrown plenty of them in campfires and they don't seem to burn that well.?ÿ It almost takes a good hot wood fire to first get them going.?ÿ And I've never seen them give off flame, they just kind of glow for a bit and then turn to ash.?ÿ
While I'm not callin' BS on the theory for any real chance of getting a poop-fueled fire going to stay warm or even heat up a pot of coffee, I remain cautiously skeptical.?ÿ I'm thinking there were be a whole lot of huffin' and puffin' just to warm up a kettle of water.
They can smolder for days. ?ÿNot a pleasant aroma. ?ÿNeed to be very dry. ?ÿThe buffalo were eating steamy grass products with virtually no grain or other far more digestible ?ÿfood. The chips would have burned more like hay.?ÿ
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See I know s#it too
...See I know s#it too
On this matter I can honestly say I don't know sh*t... 😉
I am rather fond of the term "meadow muffins" though.?ÿ
Are those the things that grow on cow patties and make you want to listen to Pink Floyd for 9 hours?
