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Sam (Mo.)

07-24-2000 19:25:45

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I think the Rinaldi's and the N-Newsletter are great, and I always look forward to my copy. With that said, I think the language some of it gets written in lately is worth a friendly comment.

Example: On Page 13 of the Summer, 2000 issue, left-hand column by Staff Product Review it says -
"Our driveway surface is a durable material made from the tailings of a rock crushing process." Well, whaddya know - so is mine, but us dumb Missourians just call the stuff gravel.

Same article: "The forces of vehicular traffic tend to push the material to the outside edges of the road, creating grooves where the tires travel most." Ain't that the darndest thing? That happens around here, too!

I know I'm poking fun, and I know this magazine has done a lot for the hobby. It just seems like legalistic, bureaucratic, politically correct, nonsense language is everywhere nowadays - and now it's even in a magazine about old tractors.

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Heres ya some modern language.

07-26-2000 08:33:40

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Re: Modern Language in reply to Sam (Mo.), 07-24-2000 19:25:45

Round gravel is crick gravel.
Driveways are supposed to be flat.
Crushed stuff is square.
Could I trade some round for some flat and call it square?
L8R----Fred

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Redbelly1

07-26-2000 04:14:33

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Re: Modern Language in reply to Sam (Mo.), 07-24-2000 19:25:45

any idiot can complicate things, even language..... it takes a genius to make it simple. ..... ..... ..nuff said.

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Dennis Brookins

07-25-2000 18:13:29

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Re: Modern Language in reply to Sam (Mo.), 07-24-2000 19:25:45

Sam, I guess I did the same thang in a post I made today, I used "wallered out" and elongated in the same dang sentence. Go Figure. D. Brookins in Atoka

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DUUUHHHH!!!!! What'd ya guy's say?

07-25-2000 15:41:50

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Re: Modern Language in reply to Sam (Mo.), 07-24-2000 19:25:45

After havin' red awl these posts's ah have descovered that ah needs ta bee moore edge-E-kated to cuntinue my resindentsee and presents on this fourum. Ah shall reeturn win ah have ben fourth writely edge-E-kated ta unnerstan whut ewe peepull have sid. Now ah no why that win i reed sum of the posts's cunserning these here "IN" tractores i can't unnerstan em, they is writ'n by hi'ly edge-E-kated folks with a lot of book learnin'. Ewe peepull mus of whint too colledge a long time to lern ta rite an' talk lack at. " I'LL BEE BACK "

Bob (KY)

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Gaspump

07-25-2000 18:42:35

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Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to DUUUHHHH!!!!! What'd ya guy's say?, 07-25-2000 15:41:50

Not to worry Bob! In the same issue there is an article written by the son of a Ford tractor dealer in Cadiz, KY. His english and writing style is what any a country person would understand. Actually I don't have a problem understanding your language either! Stick with it, you don't need a degree to understand N's, just a desire.

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JerryU

07-25-2000 04:35:16

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Re: Modern Language in reply to Sam (Mo.), 07-24-2000 19:25:45

It can be all summed up in a phrase I learned a long time ago, and have previously posted. I would offer it to you that it will serve you well in the future and answer a multiplicity of questions:

"When Mars approaches the diller with the marlitate and the anstray, it's a sure gravelorbius of the cronstrock with all the masticated hairy fibers."

Kinda says it all....

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dave 2N

07-25-2000 04:07:40

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Re: Modern Language in reply to Sam (Mo.), 07-24-2000 19:25:45

Gerard prints what he gets. It might be interesting to conduct a survey to see who (what socio-economic group) owns N's today. My guess is that the make-up would be quite different from those that make up a group of Farmall, JD, Case or A-C owners. Hence, the style that you see.

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9n'er

07-25-2000 02:12:08

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Re: Modern Language in reply to Sam (Mo.), 07-24-2000 19:25:45

"I suspect that over time the idiosyncracies of an increasing complex world will tend to override the basic qualities of tractor ownership creating a perception that mundane events will appear to be heightened and worthy of scientific explanation and importance. My driveway, for example, has a foundation of glacio alluvial outwash deposited by the third glacial period that covered parts of north America. I suspect, that the material is outwash glacial melt from an early riverine system that was experiencing dramatic changes in bed load resulting in the formation of an outwash plain and deposits of glacial till and mixed material. In short, I have a natural gravel driveway cuz I can't afford blacktop." interesting post...I see your point.

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Snow Plow

07-25-2000 10:32:23

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Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to 9n'er, 07-25-2000 02:12:08

Errr....yup.... I got rocks on my driveway too! Sep mine is used to be big rocks an they done been crushed up like, into littler ones. I paid good money fer um too!

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Well, sure, that's easy for you to say.

07-25-2000 09:52:33

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Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to 9n'er, 07-25-2000 02:12:08

Chuck (CA)

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Dave 50 8n

07-25-2000 09:23:02

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Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to 9n'er, 07-25-2000 02:12:08

9n-er,

You must be on vacation! How do you write that stuff? :-)

Style? Or sounds like the N-newsletter writer was, perhaps, a little enamored by the sound/print of the words.

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rbell

07-25-2000 06:08:27

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Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to 9n'er, 07-25-2000 02:12:08

One more time, in Missouri we call that creek gravel! Short, sweet, and `nough said!

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JerryU

07-25-2000 09:54:21

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Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to rbell, 07-25-2000 06:08:27

Ahhh yes, but is it pronounced "creek" or "crick"??

:-)

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dave#1

07-25-2000 15:32:13

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to JerryU, 07-25-2000 09:54:21

First off, you'z guys are all wrong !!
Creek ?, Crick ?, Wash ?,Warsh?

When I'm sitting in one of my favorite seats,doing what we all do..... I don't reach for my favorite issue of "Field and Creek" or "Field and Crick", No, we all read "Field and STREAM"

End of story!
Have a good one(-:

later,dave

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Tyler(MD)

07-25-2000 18:49:19

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to dave#1, 07-25-2000 15:32:13

Thanks ole freind....or is that spelled friend? I'll have to look it up in the "Davester's Dictionary". :-)

Tyman

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Old George

07-25-2000 17:42:49

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to dave#1, 07-25-2000 15:32:13

Dave,
After that last picture post I thought you would be reaching for a Coors Light. How is that diet going anyway? Did you ever figure out what to do with that last case? Good luck with whatever you decide! As for this modern language post, I think I need an adult beverage to try and cipher it all out!:-)

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dave#1

07-25-2000 18:33:59

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to Old George, 07-25-2000 17:42:49

Well, the Coors Light is still in the icebox, I say hi to it everytime I open the fridge. As far as the Diet?, still on it, lost about 35 lbs. so far (Started at 251 lbs.) There's another girl scout here on the board who is also on this diet ! We'll see if he speaks up??? LOL

later,(No belch) dave

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9n'er

07-25-2000 11:57:57

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to JerryU, 07-25-2000 09:54:21

I can lay it on as equal to or better than anyone else in this world. If there's one thing I've learned in my job it is this: "Be appropriately ambigous and reasonably vague..." it gets' em all the time. Crick or creek??..here in New England we have "BROOKS" no cricks or creeks. Creeks sqeak, and cricks hurt...especially those cricks in the neck...some call em pain in the necks...some call em pain the a*&%& see ya boys.

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rbell

07-25-2000 10:37:05

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to JerryU, 07-25-2000 09:54:21

Depends on wether your north or south of the river (Muddy Mo that is).

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Jim (MO)

07-25-2000 11:55:10

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to rbell, 07-25-2000 10:37:05

North of the Muddy MO its called river gravel. Expensive stuff too. The Suburbanites like to decorate their yards with it driving up the price.

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rbell

07-25-2000 12:06:56

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to Jim (MO), 07-25-2000 11:55:10

Money for creek gravel? lets see ifn I load up my truck and drive nort fo about 100 miles humm can I get $50 a ton for it?
Did you catch the "Brooks" in 9ers post? I thought that was what them fancy folks named their daughters.

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Jim (MO)

07-25-2000 12:43:19

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Modern Language in reply to rbell, 07-25-2000 12:06:56

Really don't know much about the economics of the gravel business but that kind of gravel does not occur naturally north of the river. Our "brooks", rivers, streams, creeks, cricks & dry washes (warshes if your prefer)are pretty much mud and/or sand bottomed. Gravel around here is crushed quarry lime and chirt, the latter is pretty hard on tires. The purty river stuff is imported from the south (of the Muddy Mo that is). Pay about $4.50 per ton and about $400.00 for a new set of tires for the local stuff.

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