A Call For Humor!

[Robin L]

 

[Multicore]

Puts me in mind of another boggy waterway: A Slough - a slow-moving, often shallow body of water, or type of waterway characterized by being a slow-moving or stagnant channel, frequently found in marshy areas. They're typically very shallow and can be a remnant of a river or a tidal channel.

Here in Washington State, the former is more often true: a remnant of a river. You see many of them driving the various East/West highways like 90 and 82.

And the town in Berkshire, a popular way stop for progressing pilgrims in the 17c., is called Slough of Despond. I lived in an adjacent town for some months when I was young.

 

[Petrushka]

And the town in Berkshire, a popular way stop for pilgrims in the 17c., is called Slough of Despond. I lived in an adjacent town for some months when I was young.

And the town in Berkshire, a popular way stop for pilgrims in the 17c., is called Slough of Despond. I lived in an adjacent town for some months when I was young.

I lived near an office park named Moccasin Slough.

I always pictured a snake shedding its skin.

 

[mhardy6647]

Come to think of it -- back in the day, a big, fairly early biotech company, Celltech, was located in Slough in the UK.
Indeed, I remember going there once... a long time ago.

 

[rationaltime]

 

[respice finem]

Come to think of it -- back in the day, a big, fairly early biotech company, Celltech, was located in Slough in the UK.
Indeed, I remember going there once... a long time ago.

With a warning sign "don't let your dogs drink from this slough"?

 

[respice finem]

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The Olsen gang of spiders?

 

[FreakyKiwi]

tires (or even tyres, if one prefers) are the best.
Both of our cars ride on 225R-17 tires. (aspect ratio 55%)
225 mm tread width and 17-inch wheel rims.
oy.

And the wheel will be something like 8" wide with a 45mm offset

 

[letspla13]

"A call for humor" because "measurement quirks of the world" and " inconsequential terms for various waterways" wouldn't have gotten the same traction .

 

[ryanosaur]

Darth Vader playing the Imperial March… with Rubber Chickens!

 

[whereisbrian]

 

[respice finem]

Non-violent home defense

 

[somebodyelse]

And, last but not least, the media add ti the chaos, describing areas with football fields, or volumes with bathtubs, etc.

At least The Register have a converter for their alternative units. And often an entertaining backstory.
https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

 

[mhardy6647]

"A call for humor" because "measurement quirks of the world" and " inconsequential terms for various waterways" wouldn't have gotten the same traction .

... and here I was poised to bring up the topic of wadis.

@letspla13, I think you are on to something! Branding is so important! Imagine if Dolby Labs had called ProLogic Quad 2.0?!

 

[Waxx]

 

[Timcognito]

Well because I started this with my bog vs fen post, I would be remiss if I didn't mention my Grandmother Mary Perente was born in a small farm house on the shores of Potato Slough, on Bouldin Island in the San Joaquin Delta, CA. She graduated in 1912 from Antioch HS a part of class of eight, four girls and four boys.

 

[Bleib]

 

[Peterinvan]

Come to think of it -- back in the day, a big, fairly early biotech company, Celltech, was located in Slough in the UK.
Indeed, I remember going there once... a long time ago.

But the town is pronounced with an ow at the end, like ouch.
In California it it pronounces with a Lou.

1996, anchored in Potato Shough, off San Joaquin River:

 

[mhardy6647]

But the town is pronounced with an ow at the end, like ouch.
In California it it pronounces with a Lou.

Potato Shough, off San Joaquin River:

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Absolutely true -- I've been biting my tongue to address this, truth be told!
"A Call for Reflection on Abstruse Regional Pronounciations" it is!

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

Oscar Wilde - "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language"