> Thanks, very illuminting indeed! By the way, I heard a rumor that, > somewhere in a swamp in Arkansas there has been a sighting of the > formerly thought to be extinct Hard-Chined Duck. I wonder if it is > true. > > If you don't mind, could you expand a bit on the "crotch dirigible". > How did it work? Is it the predecessor of the modern "crotch rocket" > as perfected by Honda and Kawasaki? > > > Cheers, > > Michael in Tallahassee I think the whole point of the crotch dirigible is that it _is_ expanded. About as far as it can go. To expand it further would make it an "exploded crotch dirigible", or more simply, "ripped cariboo hide". I once lived in the Arctic (Aklavik, NWT) and there was nothing worse than the downwind smell of the Inuit villages when they were piling whale carcasses on the beach to generate the methane gas required to lift one of those crotch dirigibles off the ground. Ahhh, memories of a long-lost way of life! -- Darryl *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed May 18 2005 - 13:00:42 PDT
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