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Old 07-18-2020, 12:16 PM
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"Also, calling rockets a "bird" could be especially offensive to British women." Ditto for "ducky" ('duckie?').

A Bird is the same as calling a young girl a chick in the US, now calling her a tart is defiantly
offensive, when is all of this going to end? I guess we will have to start re-naming US City's next. And we need to close Home Depot, Loews and Ace Hardware: They still sell chains.

The problem is that people in this country no matter who they are DON't KNOW HOW GOOD THEY HAVE IT. THIS IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. PERIOD
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Old 07-18-2020, 12:53 PM
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A Bird is the same as calling a young girl a chick in the US, now calling her a tart is defiantly
offensive, when is all of this going to end? I guess we will have to start re-naming US City's next. And we need to close Home Depot, Loews and Ace Hardware: They still sell chains.

The problem is that people in this country no matter who they are DON't KNOW HOW GOOD THEY HAVE IT. THIS IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. PERIOD
...And not just ^today^, but in all of human history (which is taught ever-more-poorly in government schools). The "ducky/duckie" term is something I remember from a comedy skit by the British comedian Dave Allen ("Dave Allen at Large"):

It involved a global nuclear holocaust, and a woman digging desperately through the ruins, looking for any other survivor. Seeing a man's legs sticking out from the debris, she pulled him out, and he stood up unsteadily and silently, quite dazed; his gaudily-colored clothes were unusual. After expressing her joy at finding another living human being, she said, "We'll have to re-start the human race--I will be the new Eve, and you will be the new Adam!" His eyes suddenly widened and he turned and walked away, lisping to her, "Have I got news for *you*, duckie!" :-)
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Old 07-18-2020, 02:49 PM
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...And not just ^today^, but in all of human history (which is taught ever-more-poorly in government schools). The "ducky/duckie" term is something I remember from a comedy skit by the British comedian Dave Allen ("Dave Allen at Large"):

It involved a global nuclear holocaust, and a woman digging desperately through the ruins, looking for any other survivor. Seeing a man's legs sticking out from the debris, she pulled him out, and he stood up unsteadily and silently, quite dazed; his gaudily-colored clothes were unusual. After expressing her joy at finding another living human being, she said, "We'll have to re-start the human race--I will be the new Eve, and you will be the new Adam!" His eyes suddenly widened and he turned and walked away, lisping to her, "Have I got news for *you*, duckie!" :-)

And it seams that he was as dry as good old British Humor, or Bombay Gin what have you
Duckie?
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Leaving the diameters out of the dimensions for each kit in the catalog is...well.....DUMBBBB.
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And it seams that he was as dry as good old British Humor, or Bombay Gin what have you
Duckie?
Yes. indeed :-)--and Indians have a dry sense of humor, too. A reporter once asked Mohandas K. Gandhi, soon after he'd been released from one of his several stints of incarceration (which sometimes involved beatings and physical privations), "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?", and he answered: "I think that it would be an excellent idea."
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Leaving the diameters out of the dimensions for each kit in the catalog is...well.....DUMBBBB.
Maybe they wanted future kit history researchers to feel a sense of accomplishment for their detective work to document and re-create (what will then be, to them) old and classic kits. :-) But seriously, I agree with you. Even now, there are enough near-but-not-identical tubing types (such as BT-50 and the thicker-walled, 1" or so diameter tubing that's used in plastic-finned kits like the Banshee and Dragonite), plus one or two close "Estes-adopted" Centuri tube sizes (such as ST-13 / BT-56, which isn't far different from BT-55) that one can be confused when trying to clone old (to us) kits.
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