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WCDT: 2372-2376 (28 January - 1 February 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
cesium133:
I drove from Maryland to Oklahoma once, stopping at my brother's house in Kentucky on the way. Bit of advice: never try to drive across Tennessee in August in a car without AC.
Carl-E:
Moose:
Elk:
...I'm sorry, those are not the same animal. Similar, yes. But there's a reason we name these things the way we do...
Method of Madness:
I once drove from New Jersey to Connecticut and back. It took a week and I drove 2,000 miles by way of Indiana, Canada and Buffalo. Road trips are pretty awesome indeed.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 31 Jan 2013, 17:32 ---Moose:
Elk:
...I'm sorry, those are not the same animal. Similar, yes. But there's a reason we name these things the way we do...
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No, those are American usages. In the UK it said it was the same as an Älg.
(UK) The largest member of the deer family (Alces alces); a moose.
(North America) The common wapiti (Cervus canadensis); the second largest member of the deer family, smaller only than a moose. Elk never have flat antlers; moose do.
This is an Älg:
Looks like what you called a Moose to me.
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 31 Jan 2013, 16:41 ---That's pretty much what I meant by "corridor". I've driven the 55-44-40 route a few times, and even got enamored enough by a small town in New Mexico to get a photo of me standing right in the middle of what used to be Route 66:
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Driving across the country on I-40 in a u-haul truck containing our worldly belongings and pulling my car on a trailer behind, we went through a stretch of concrete pavement (in Oklahoma?) along which I could not drive faster than 47.5 mph. At 47.5 mph some kind of resonance/harmonic period was reached between the joints on the highway and the wheelbases of the truck and the trailer resulting in a dangerous swaying that threatened to throw us off the road.
I never got the guts up to try to go fast enough to get past that node, so we were getting passed and flipped off by everyone from grannies up to 18 wheelers.
Switching to the blessed asphalt of historic US 66 allowed us to make better time (no joints) and enjoy the countryside a bit. Highly recommended if you've got the time. And if you don't have the time, you should make the time.
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