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Post by Rich Eagle » Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:17 pm

We saw "Horse Feathers" and "White Zombie" at the Biogram Theater one summer evening. John Harron was brilliant in the latter. Mom roomed with his mother at Baskeville State her sophomore year. She snored and walked in her sleep.
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Post by Herb Iffrig » Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:25 am

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Post by Burger in Spokane » Wed Dec 30, 2020 1:04 am

Kalamity Dick was instrumental in the retrofitting of the Chugwater Naval fleet
for mucus navigation when Mt. Stinkmore threatened to erupt again in 1922. His
side-churn screw-drive propellers were an adaption of the transorbital twist units
he built for the Helix Mill, and easily handled the heavy viscosity of the threatened
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Post by Rich Eagle » Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:05 pm

Mongering iron isn't as easy as it looks. Selection, conglomerating and execution take significant practice and study. There seems to be an abundance of farkling barrels in the yard. Williams often tried to sell KD ones that the he (KD) had previously thrown away. Eventually Dick found this was a nice alternative to storing them.
Proper propellers proved particularly precarious previous to procuring. Screening screw sides seemed silly so Sedgwick serrated several Saturday.
The transorbital twist trunnions twice tangled terribly that Tuesday truncating the transqualitor.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:37 pm

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Mongering iron isn't as easy as it looks.
So very true, Rich. For our readers' edification Sebastian has transcribed this photo of Mongo Montgolfier at the helm of the "Steel Elephant" which powered the transorbital twist trunions. It's a generally accepted fact in the Tri-burgs that Mr. Montgolfier lent his name to the craft of mongering Iron. One slip and you're dead.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:53 pm

He looks one slip from death in the photo. That is hardly the helm but the very cogwheel precipice that Jackingham Wizzborn lost his vanity during the debilitation stroke that winter afternoon. Were it not for Weldon and Klamsworth scrambling to his assistance and propelling him to the commissary he would be merely a memo on the consolation docket.
Yes, he recovered atop garnished plumbs and briskets thanks to Lewellen but only barely.
The Commission of Caution wrote several dissertations regarding it. No small matter.
Running the apparatus by Bear power might have been the better choice.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:20 pm

Good observation. Bears are always dependable. Linus just telefaxed this photo of Wizzborn's wife Clamantha and his daughters Cassava and Aspidistra on a shopping trip in downtown Chugwater, accompanied by their family pet. Linus swears it's a bear, but I have some doubts. If it was a bear, Jackingham's accident was all the more tragic, as employing the family pet could have prevented everything.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:38 pm

Yes, it is certainly a bear. The wool gorget does make it look a little like a sheep. A bit like the "Ruffs" worn by men underneath their doublets in the 1560s. Cecil said it best "Is it not a very lamentable thing that we should bestow that upon starch to the setting forth of vanity and pride which would staunch the hunger of many that starve in the streets for want of bread?"
Clamantha's wooly Bear did eat and sleep better that many.
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Post by Herb Iffrig » Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:06 am

Things are not always what they seem to be. This might be a sheep, or the monster from the Chugwater lake.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:57 am

Uncle Lumby was known to summer his sheep down at the lake.
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It was a strange day for predicting the future!
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Post by Rich Eagle » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:20 pm

I have been studying the creature in the Lake. I suspect it is a small human rather that either a sheep or the monster from the Lake. Possibly it fell from the schooner and is being pulled shore by the brown wolf.
As for Oscar Erickson's flying Machines above Canton, their design screams Jules Vernon or Montgomery Python to me. Seeing no signs of alien space craft as in some Main Street scenes, they apparently are doing their job well.

According to Giggle Mapps, this is approximately the same spot today.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Thu Jan 07, 2021 12:04 pm

Heinrich is back from his trip for anyone who needs a hall pass.
By the way, he has a podium for sale.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:49 pm

Good. There was a fellow in just now wearing a buffalo horn hat requesting a hall pass. He was stripped to the waist and appeared anxious and in a hurry. I'll let him know. As for the podium, prospective buyers should know it reeks heavily of skunks. A quart of tomato juice in its crankcase should clear that right up.

Cantonese cuisine has always been popular in Canton. The colorful dirigible in the photograph serves some of the best, but it's too high for most customers.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:22 pm

The high prices were the result of inflation for sure.
Vikings and opera singers arrived at the Lake over the years with the hats bearing horns. In an effort to accept dissimilar cultures the locals reached out with open arms. In the early days the blunderbuss was a popular arm. However Ernie's instituted rules after several puncher injuries during happy hour. Rubber tips were required in addition to the small caliber rule.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:29 pm

The The Saddlestring Gazette ran several ads during this period placed by Slim Cudlip, brand inspector at the Saddlestring stockyards wherein he offered to de-horn helmets of all sizes for $ 1.55 each. Apparently his side business was a brisk one for a time, the ad ran most of the summer. Folks in Saddlestring were always very enthusiastic about an evening in Medicine Bow at Ernies. When Ernie placed the ban on horns, patrons quickly conformed rather than lose their bar privileges.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:05 pm

A recent poll showed that Tri-Burg area residents had a 39% conformity approval
rate, when it came to horn issues. Wilbert Precast is current President of Local 21,
United Conformists Union, E.I.E.I.O.

Calhoun County Fashion Gazette's Advisory Board recommends a 3º forward tilt of
the horns, to the helmet base at level. Probably best to heed that advice.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:04 pm

Melvin Garvelpazter was issued a permanent horn pass. Panning for punctuation below the Alphabet mine the horns were crucial to his interpunction hearkening.
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He became a Class "A" pan handler and double-dipper per his years of submersing his basin. Pauses between the trickles and the dribbles could be detected and thus plucking comas and semicolons from their concealment.
KD had Hydrginiped the pans using a similar process for magnetizing gold. Repudiating the flux flow at culmination of the spin cycle did the trick.
Sadly the same process would not work on vowels or odd numbers.
That, of coarse, was in keeping with the 39% conformity, if you will.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:30 am

Had it not been for the strict adherence to the 39% conformity rule, Garvelpatzer
would have struggled to achieve interpunction, let alone a full hearkening. Yet in
1919, an outbreak of interpunctionary hearkening caused more than a few Upper
Terrace residents to experience high rates of exfoliation. Enid Furgelwurtz was a
sometime friend of Garvelpatzer, and urged him to stay on with the panning operation,
pointing out that with a permanent horn pass, little could stand between him and an
outright success. Which he found shortly thereafter. This is where Fogg Pucker came
back into the story, after being absent since the Nutmeg Incident. Fogg was one of
the Pucker Clan, that settled in the marshy backwater above the rapids. His Father,
Picker, was from the old country and rode the modified unicycle that Kalamity Dick sent
to him across the pond. His arrival at Elvis Island made national news. More on Fogg,
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Post by Herb Iffrig » Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:10 am

I started to do some research on Fogg. I couldn't find much other that this:
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Who was Art Fogg? Was he some how related to Fogg Pucker? It's hard to find some of this stuff out. Was this the museum that was talked about where he wanted to collect some of KD's stuff?
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:34 am

I have nothing on Art Fogg. Fogg Pucker was KD's go-to source
for curves and circles. KD was lazy that way. But the two enjoyed
a decades long friendship and trade partnership, trading curves and
circles for arrows and darts, which Pucker had a hard time with.
All the Puckers, including Fogg's mother, seemed "naturals" when it
came to curves and circles. This worked out really well with the
sales team at the Alphabet Mine and Helix Mill, as they could offer
the Pucker products alongside their own, giving them a wider range
of offerings. Heinrich is searching now for the famous cover photo
of Mother Pucker and her curves, used on the August, 1923 edition
of Hair and Organs magazine.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:32 pm

That's the old building Herb.
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Art Fogg was born during an eclipse of the moon to a tangent farmer in an area once squared. Born with a deformed Hyperbola he sufferer as a child but later in life he worked for the U.S. Geometrical Survey. While surveying a Nebraskan parameter he discovered that F and G equaled C. This naturally increased demands at the mine.
During the War, he served as navigator of a Cantonese provisions dirigible.
Last heard from he set out to pan for punctuation.
Coincidence or a cleverly designed plot?
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:31 pm

The coincidence of bringing up clever plots while on the subject of
the Pucker clan is amazing. Picker Pucker began dredging the marshes
above the rapids in 1904, after discovering a clever plot near the water's
edge. The Pucker Plot Co. was incorporated the following year when
assay tests proved the area rich in plots of all kinds. In 1925 the company
was reorganized under the Pucker Products parent company. Fogg headed
up the curves and circles division, when his mother wanted to leave, to
focus on unicycle watercraft. Fogg was the art connoisseur.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:35 pm

Dredging up some pertinent photos, Sabastian found this one of Plucker T. Fogg sampling the tailings.
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We concluded this was taken just South and a little East on the old Paprika Ranch. Not only had the Ranch been a Winter hide-out for the Spadaford Gang but Marley Simpples wrote several of his mudge chewing sonnets there.
Plucker met Marley coming the other way on a trip to Twin Benches to pick up provisions. Since the two had the same thing in mind they decided to stop and sort out their hyphens. There always seems to be an odd number doesn't there? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Indecently, both wore a size 7.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:25 pm

Lots of cross-reference material here. The Spadaford Gang managed to elude capture by holing up on the Paprika Ranch mostly because Sheriff Dumbrow was violently allergic to Paprika, in spite of his Hungarian ancestry. Mudge was a popular chewable in the Basin, mostly because no spittoons were required. Ernie greatly disapproved of chewing tobacco, had removed the spittoons from his saloon long since, and had actually shot four customers for spitting on the floor before chewing mudge became fashionable. KD was an enthusiastic mudge chewer himself. Duke Fitzellwitz had a major hit on the Codswollop Label, titled, She Was Always Chewing Mudge lyrics: "She was always chewing mudge, she was always chewing mudge. I swore I'd never marry a girl who was always chewing mudge." Vocals were by Ambrose Angostura. Footnote to the previous photo, Plucker T. Fogg gave up smoking after his stint panning the talings for hyphens at the old mill site. It was reported it burned for four month until winter snows finally quenched the flames.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Wed Jan 13, 2021 7:08 pm

One of my favorite movies is "Gone with the Mudge". Deep woods humor, man-eating fish and flying wallabies, what's not to like.
The dissection scene was filmed on location at the old Paprika Ranch as a tribute to Plucker and his Pompano. Seldom do we see a film with clavicle recipes.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:28 pm

I just can't let a reference to "Gone With the Mudge" pass without remarking on the inspirational scene of the burning of Absaroka. Also, it's a shame Betty Grable never got an Oscar. Her performance in the role of Red Buttons was truly legendary. Many people don't realize the pompano was the inspiration for Elvis Presley's signature hair style. It's still a regular menu item at Ernie's on Friday nights, but no longer sauteed in Brylcreme. Tastes change, after all.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:53 am

The original "Mudge", derived from the sludge in the moss refining process, was used by Spitdorph Electrical Company as a substitute for tar in it's coil units. Apparently several connotations have been given to it in later days according to my analyst. My apologies.
It increased the amperage without overheating the hamster windings. But owing to the additional cost it was discontinued opening the door to chew products.
The word was eventually applied to an English broadcloth pigment and finally a karate move.
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Post by Herb Iffrig » Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:12 pm

Now I am going to jump around from the High wheeler thread Rich Bingham started to ponder any connection between KD and Ackermann and his steering principle. Is there a connection other than the connecting rod?

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Post by Rich Eagle » Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:45 pm

HI Herb. I sent his address in a separate note.
I'm looking for the schematic but it mainly functions with curves and circles.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:15 pm

Heinrich and Sebastian just crossed my desk with a wealth of information on Ackermann. It seems he was a very active organization type in the Basin; minutes of the Tri-burg Mudge Chewers Assn., Moss Growers for Better Slurry, and Ernie's Wednesday Night darts team all mention him as being chairman of their steering committees. He was a principled fellow who never failed to offer advice to down-and-out panhandlers, giving rise to the term "bum steer". KD was a sometime member of all of those organizations at one time or another, so it's plausible to assume he had a connection to Ackerman and his steering activities beyond the fabled connecting rod, which was actually the pitman arm from a mowing machine Cuthbert Maddox had abandoned along the fence row where his spread bordered the Paprika Ranch. Slug Spadaford was taking potshots at him from the cover of the ravine.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:23 am

The Pucker clan were stand up folks, and were a bulwark against the
moves and machinations of the Spadaford Gang in any upriver operations,
forcing them to either go around or abandon such ideas. Fogg Pucker
kept Slug Spadaford's left ear, two big toes, and a piece of his tongue on
display in the Art Museum, to remind patrons of the price good people will
extract from the bad, when the good are resolute and upstanding. The
battle of the two at Beacon Rock is the stuff of local legend. Slug never
walked or talked right again after that meeting.

The Puckers were master wheelwrights, specializing in accident repair and
in-situ work that the competition demanded be brought in their shops. Here
we see three of the Pucker brothers, with Picker, sizing up the refitment of
the drive wheels on Melvin Garvelpatzers' wire canoe, after they fell off going
down Any River. Garvelpatzer was asked by Kalamity Dick to provide a reliable
number for how many flapjacks it would take to shingle a dog house, and tried
to run the rapids in the wire canoe when the mishap occurred. In this case, the
canoe was floated to the Chugwater & Northern river crossing at Stillwater and
hoisted onto a flatcar, for the ride into the yards in town. The boys set to work
right there on the siding, across from the roundhouse, never taking the craft
off the flatcar.

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Post by Rich Eagle » Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:22 am

This may or may not be the repair of the canoe mishap. The photo was found under the thresher.
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While it looks a lot like Garvelpatzer, he seldom wore the fur collar due to his anagramitus. The fellow with the hat, second from the spritzel reel, has a strong resemblance to Calvin Simpples (no relation). He had also been accused in the Nutmeg Incident but was released claiming it was Wednesday.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:34 pm

Very often, identifying personalities from photographs presents difficulties for one or another reason; lighting, view angle, focus, all can obscure identifying features past the point of certainty. In this case, one might presume the visible presence of the wire canoe on a flatcar equipped with the necessary drive wheels for refitment would point to the party in question being Mr. Gavelpatzer, in spite of the fur collar he's wearing. Also problematic is the identification of the top-hatted figure as possibly being Calvin Simpples.

Hoping to clear things up, Sebastian has commissioned Leoferic, his sub-altern, to compare all of the archive photos of Simpples with those of KD during the same period. We will soon learn through painstaking, meticulous research the facts which this photo documents.

As a side exercise for the scholarly and detail oriented, below we offer this photo of Gavelpatzer offering hospitality to Cuthbert Maddox in the comfort of the snug little line shack he owned in Freezeout Hollow during the mushroom blight. Like the previous photo, many contest whether that is indeed Cuthbert Maddox, as he never was known to drink coffee.
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The tophat guy looks strikingly like Kalamity Dick. The three in white shirts are
undoubtedly Puckers, as listed in the 1910 Annual. As mentioned before, they
were a clean lot, even when working.

In the cabin photo, the subject in the chair holds that upper arm pose that Cuthbert
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It's interesting to me how our ancestors practiced those poses for the day we would need to hold our cell phones etc. that way. However they haven't learned to look away an ignore any other human in the room at the same time.
From the flogged spaghetti and knurled tomatoes I would say it's a Sunday nosh-up after Sodality. Neither were dyed-in-the-smelt but studied and practiced extenuation.
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I think it is a cup of mushroom soup.


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" ... Neither were dyed-in-the-smelt but studied and practiced extenuation."

A longstanding bit of local wisdom across Calhoun County, often heard around
places like Ernie's and the Terminal Café was "He, who smelt it, dealt it". The
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dusting and extenuation on captive audiences. They were all banned from using
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Regular visitors to this topic have no doubt noticed the hiatus in informative posts through the past week, perhaps the longest pause in over two years. Please do not be alarmed, as we have scarcely scratched surface where the annals of KD's accomplishments and adventures are concerned.

Through the past week, Heinrich and the entire Institute staff have been fully employed in a long overdue inventory of the archives. Additionally, dust balls are being replaced, rust spots on exhibit pieces touched up, and a new infusion of damp rot and mold spores is being pumped into the Institute's chambers in a systematic manner. Regular correspondence to these boards will resume when these projects are completed, hopefully before the 2021 St. Swithin's Day Festival. Until then, put your questions and comments on a penny postcard and send them to Luther in care of Ernie's Saloon in Medicine Bow.

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Thanks Rich. I have my Swiss Army knife out and am scratching the surface even as we speak.
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One of the few times someone of national notoriety almost came to Calhoun County was when White Rock the Magician came to the back lot at Ernie's. He was the cousin of Blackstone the Magician.
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His levitational prowess was always a toss up. Spectators never knew if he would fly or fall flat on his face. For that reason he wore a nose piece that looked like a beak. If you look closely you can see it under his sleeve.
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Of the ten Pucker boys, Horace was the eldest of the three. He married
Eunice Wimplewonker (seen holding the secret recipe, at right) in 1904, at
Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, seen behind Eunice here. Horace was a professional
cat juggler and played first chair triangle in the Saddlestring Symphony. The
pair lived in town on Funkbunkler Street, behind the Cash and Carry. Eunice
was a math whiz and kept the books for many of the town's business people, as
well as being County Auditor. She won the Nozelle Prize for Theoretics, for finding
the square root of orange, and found time to clean and dust the common areas of
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"Ice Box" Pucker was best man at their wedding. Horace selected him as he was the next eldest of the other seven.
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Named Ivan at birth the nickname "Ice Box" was given due to his body temperature of 89.5°F. He shared a bed with Stu and Andy who managed to steal the covers. His metabolism adapted leaving him with a permanent chill.
He is shown here installing the antennae for Dr. Muffbonne's office. This enabled the Doctor to receive carrot juice by radio waves rather than trotting down to the mushroom stand. It was just another convenience furnished by Kalamity Dick. In return, KD got free Electrocauterization of barnacles.
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No one was unhappier than Fogg Pucker, when the City Council created the
trotting tax that forced people like Dr. Muffbonne to seek other options. Soon,
trotting was the thing of tax dodgers and outlaws, something that really steamed
Fogg. And no one was happier than Fogg about the barnacle cauterization, as
the family barnacle beds, there above the rapids, were rife with the need for
cauterization. The electro process produced a heavenly smell that was often
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The Puckers were well established above the rapids when the Chugwater &
Northern pushed their rails toward the headwaters of the mighty Chugwater
drainage. The railroad bought the right-of-way of the Humphrey & Dalkins
Toll Road and Stage Line and proceeded to upgrade the route to railroad standards.
One benefit of the acquisition was the Pucker Meal House, situated on the left bank
of the river, where the bridge crossed. Ma Pucker had been serving hot barnacles
to hungry travelers since the early stage days, and the railroad was only too happy
to continue the meal stop tradition. With the coming of the electrocauterization
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Barnacle Stroganoff at this banquet.
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Part of the by-out agreement was that Dalkins had a free pass anytime he wished on the C&N. He often rode it to the Meal House solely for one of Ma's meals. One Pythagorians New Years he had to ride on the feedwater dome. Emily Fradercaster wrote about him almost losing his grip in her treatise on davenport wetting.
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They sure were a chipper bunch, in spite of the mismatched seating. Historians
have often commented that no mention or complaint was ever recorded of guests
being given unbrewed coffee, straight out of the can. Ma Pucker found the whole
brewing process offensively akin to the distilling of alcohol. Something she gave
up in disgust after the Nutmeg Incident. Humphrey and Dalkins were already part-
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Their representation of the Uvula League and the Moss Growers Association during
the Cannibal Uprising saved the day and ensured Constitutional regularity, where
before there had been none. They also represented Al Cologne in his trial on charges
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That is a particularly touching photo of Ma Pucker waiting on the bleachers for the match to start. (Lower Left of photo above)
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She reads to Fricklick and Joleapin from the Gattling Bros. Fairytales. They had bet heavily on the Mosssquirels from Worland. It was a cool day and rained during the benediction. 83 to something as I remember.
They seem to be reading chapter 5 where Skuzzy the Wolf is chasing Marblette through the greenwood.
Supper that evening was Flemmed Partridge with a twist of Sulfur. 7 Pythagoreans attended but no flossing was required.
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Fogg had always asked Ma to do her reading on the steps of Fergler's General
Merchandise Store, but it was something of folly to even ask, as Ma wanted a
front row, corner seat anyway. Fogg's reason was any appearance of conflict of
interest and to avoid any suggestion of Russian collusion or election impropriety
involving Humphrey, Dalkins, Pucker, and Futz. The firm's reputation was always
a top concern for Fogg. He was a stand-up guy and whether it was his wheelwrighting
or his reputation before the court, he made sure that nothing ever cast a shadow
on their name. Ma, of course, was a graduate of the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading
Academy. She could read so fast that people often thought she was trying to trick
them. Thusly, the concern of Fogg's. But such was never the case, for Ma had a
heart of barnacles, and never would dream of doing such a thing.
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Did Kd work on this Concentrator?
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I'm often asked that question Herb. Thanks for bringing it up.
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Here we see him arriving to pick up a load of conjectures at the rear of the plant. Wearing his taller topper or "thinking cap" as he called it did help him meditate while waiting. The millworks kept busy rewiring multitudes of parsnips for cogitating flimber tubes. They could barely keep up with KD's demands during the Flanagan administration.
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Post by perry kete » Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:09 pm

The truth be known is that KD always told everyone that his taller hat was his thinking cap but after consuming some Happy Sally he spilled the beans at Ernie's one night and told several people who were there for a Parakeet convention that when he wore the taller cap he really kept his lunch under there and it usually consisted of two mushroom moss sandwiches, mashed potatoes, and a bottle of Happy Sally.
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And isn't it fortunate, Perry, there were enough parakeet's on hand to gobble up those beans after KD spilt them? It certainly would have been a mess by Thursday.
Many claim that is was Col. Larkvonnet who gave KD the "High Hat" in the Ballroom.
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"Two mushroom moss sandwiches"? Really?
KD never consumed more than one mushroom moss sandwich. Overeating played hob with his dyspepsia. On rare occasions he would order two so as to share one with Cuthbert when he forgot the bagels. A funny thing about that. Once Cuthbert showed up at lunch with a small fixhound, but no bagels. All butter under the bridge now, so to squeak.
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That butter under the bridge is precisely why the Pucker barnacle beds were
so fertile. Others tried to raise good barnacles, but lacked both the butter and
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The amount of butter under the bridge was margarinable compared to the price of bagels in Kemmerer. Puckers or not, Cuthbert knew which side to spread it on.
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Ma Pucker taught evening classes on which side to butter. Cuthbert graduated
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Heinrich happened by on his surrey today and shared this photo, capturing the
bucolic scene of the bridge over the barnacle beds at Puckersville. Interestingly
enough, Kalamity Dick's seldom photogrpahed or talked about kaphistulator-based
rocket is seen on the launch pad, somewhat hidden by the trees. In between
sequence tests, KD and Irving Schmutz often walked down to the bridge to watch
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Calvin Simpples rented a place from the Mulberry's just around the bend from that spot. Merlin Von Ursidae claimed the kaphistulator had too little gabardine to lift any vessel so KD kept much of it under his hat. Hence the lack of photos.
Evenings on the bridge were a welcome relief after waxing the fuselage and loading the incendiaries. I know Irving had given pet names to many of the sycophants. Willie is one I recall.
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Kalamity Dick's rocket research predates all other work in the field by decades.
Unlike others doing work on this subject later, Kalamity Dick was motivated by
commerce, not war. Moving the mushroom moss outside the Chugwater waterway
was a costly proposition, and one night at Ernie's, under a mild spell of Happy
Sally, the idea came to him to project the moss through the air, using a vessel
that employed mushroom gas as fuel. Initial mock ups and tests showed positive
potential, and several successful launches were made. But the coming of the
Chugwater & Northern to the upper reaches of the basin proved its economic
undoing, and the project was shelved. The research papers were filed with the
Institute, and are available to those with the Silver Level membership. The Puckers
went on farming barnacles, and Puckerville still looks pretty much as it did in the
photo above, except the rocket is now on the other side of Mt. Stinkmore, having
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Heinrich did find this photo covering a hole in the dressing room wall. We think it's the old Mendlefrogg site just West.
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Mushroom gas fortified with pluribus unum and a touch of vanilla was used successfully in July and August.
The barnacles turned a bit lavender after each launch. It didn't seem to affect the pungence though.
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I don't see the missle silo in the picture. This must have been taken on one of the preliminary test firings. I see the gantry crane there though.

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It was my understanding that they would launch the rocket silo first so when the rocket made it to it's destination it would have a place to be stored in. Their secret code for launching the silo first was "move the mobile mushroom house".
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That is interesting Perry. Originally, the silo wasn't intended to launch but an accident. A surplus of hotcadutinary leaked under it and static electricity from the yard arm provoke an eruption.
Bobby Gantry wrote two songs about the event, one predated the actual mishap.
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The successful accidental silo launch prompted several others, the advantage of having a place for the rockets ready and waiting for landing was all too obvious. The regularity of the tandem launches was a boon for Elmo Ferndip, cross-eyed basin sign painter who had botched an order for several "out to lunch" signs the previous fall. Rocketeers ended up paying top dollar for his "out to launch" signs. Even KD bought one, although in his case it was definitely an expression of that wry sense of humor he was famous for. Similarly clueless as the rocketeers, Ernie always thought KD had a "rye" sense of humor, which really didn't make sense, as he only imbibed Happy Sally. The humor was there in evidence though. KD would inevitably "get the giggles" when in his cups, a rather unfortunate turn of events, as it encouraged Cuthbert to recite his entire repertoire of stale old jokes. He thought KD enjoyed them.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:38 pm

At one point, KD, in an uncustomary fit of frustration, loaded up all Cuthbert's stale
old jokes into the rocket, and sent them over the mountain to Saddlestring. Heinrich
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Post by Rich Eagle » Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:00 pm

Sprinkled in amongst the stale jokes were some limericks that took root and sprouted into trees. They provided nice shade according to Ambrose Sawyer, Forman of the silo carpenter team.
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Post by perry kete » Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:47 pm

And while Ambrose stayed behind during lunch hour the rest of the work crew enjoyed banana nut sandwiches and pickles.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:58 pm

It seems odd there were limericks sorinkled into the mix. By his own admission, Cuthbert never knew any limericks that were not downright dirty. Apparently, the surfeit of topsoil provided the fertility necessary for the trees to sprout. During reforestation efforts of the 1930's the CCC approached Cuthbert for more limericks, but he bashfully declined; a product of the Victorian Age, his scruples simply would not permit the dissemination of more risqué rhymes.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:10 pm

Most interesting indeed. Cuthbert was interviewed for the bit
about Humphrey, Dalton, Pucker, and Futz' involvement in the rocket
project, in the June, 1933 edition of Hair and Organs magazine.
Naturally, this led to comments about the limericks, and Cuthbert
confided that he hid the more risqué ones in the banana nut sandwiches,
which the writer commented, were surprisingly delicious. Heinrich
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Post by perry kete » Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:34 am

Being careless while making a banana nut & pickle sandwich Cuthbert tossed the banana peel on the floor while KD was walking past and KD slipped on the banana peel and cracked his coconut!
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Post by Rich Eagle » Sat Feb 13, 2021 12:23 pm

Those were interesting times. Cuthbert made a mean sandwich and Kalamyti Dick enjoyed them even with a sore noggin. The Fosslell brothers were digging camel bones and Slug Spadaford was still tying Rattlesnakes in square knots. Martha Finsternickle had sold over a dozen copies of her new book on Volcanic rock skiing and the Worland Bus Line added a new Pink motor coach to their stable.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:43 pm

It's worth mentioning that Cuthbert's banana, nut and pickle sandwich spread was also used as a poultice with remarkable healing properties. Applied to bruises and simultaneously ingested in sandwich form, it was nearly as good for one's health as chicken soup.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Sat Feb 13, 2021 4:39 pm

Cuthbert began making mean sandwiches after he discovered high grade
mean ore in the tailings dump at the Alphabet mine. Mine management
was so focused on language elements, they never thought to assay their
raw ore for spirit and intent. KD liked the mean sandwiches, because he
said it brought balance to his own laid back mellowness and could temper
a groggy onset from the Happy Sally.

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in the "E" section of Hair & Organs magazine. The C&N railroad personnel used
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at the Pucker House, based on the same. Those WERE interesting times.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:42 pm

That's true. Here is the C&N schedule as well as the menu for the Pucker House posted on the ticket window at the Bungleside Station. Cliff's brother John also wrangled tickets and lip balm Mondays thru Friday noon. Demelza filled in when Clyburn couldn't be there.
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You made me want o look up Frizzle house. I think I see a tie in:
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Post by Rich Bingham » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:10 pm

Good work Herb. Yes indeed, there is a tie-in to the Tri-burg saga. Old Coriander Frizzle loved beer, but detested crowds. Unsociable in the extreme, he began perfecting home brew for his own use, using local mushrooms instead of hops. Ultimately the brew he perfected reached an alcohol content over 40%. He found it so stout even his modest home operation produced an overabundance. That's when Ernie approached him about supplying his saloon. The tipple proved popular with saloon patrons.

Coriander's son Elmo was a backward lad, literally. Misunderstanding his history courses in reverse order, when he came of age, he determined to emigrate to the UK where he set himself up in the brewery trade with minimal success. He actually paid customers to use his product. Unity Brewing bought him out, saving him from bankruptcy and modified the old family recipe to appeal to modern market trends, following the recent fad for "India Pale Ale" and drastically reducing the alcohol content. Essentially nothing remains of Coriander Frizzle's hallmark brew but the name, and the image of Elmo's pet rooster, Zeke.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:58 pm

Herb suggested this photo of Elmo and Zeke. It was apparently prior to the 40%. Cuthbert had found a shortcut to the United Kingdom thru Meeteetse which cut off several miles and eliminated having to cross the ocean. This left Elmo more time to catch up on the homework.
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I think that chicken must be under house arrest as it has an ankle bracelet on.


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Post by Rich Bingham » Sun Feb 14, 2021 4:13 pm

The Frizzles' neighbor, Buff Orpington, had a large poultry flock from whence came Zeke, Elmo's cherished pet. Problem was, Zeke regularly left the Frizzle place to romance Buff's hens. Once he was among the flock, Elmo never could tell which rooster was his. As an act of kindness, Buff fashioned the ankle bracelet we see in the photo, thus enabling Elmo to identify his pet easily, and retrieve him. Zeke, however, deeply resented the intrusions into his love-life.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:03 pm

Buff took his wife's name of Orpington when they married. He was the
8th eldest of the ten Pucker boys. He always felt the name was uncomfortably
close to that of Buff Smucker, inventor of the strawberry.
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Two houses down from the Puckers and just North of the Frizzle bungalow were the Pelvingtons. Zeke often pecked seeds from their vegetable garden.
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Heinrich told the crowd at last Tuesday's meeting that Elvis
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Ya, the note said something about a Holmes wrecker or a home wrecker. The handwriting was a bit fuzzy.
Elvis's tour of duty was interrupted by bouts of silly walking. At first it was considered a hindrance but soon discovered that it affected the enemies aim by causing giggling. Other troops adopted it and eventually contests were held. The entire battle might have been called off were it not for a stone-faced, humorless Colonel who insisted they regain proper step.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:13 pm

Cuthbert generally held himself aloof of family relationships, no doubt a result of having been orphaned at an early age. Imagine his inner turmoil when his great uncle Carborundum X. Maddox turned up unexpectedly before the annual Saddlestring Snail Festival and unformed him they were related to the Puckers, the Frizzles and the Pelvingtons. Incredulous at first, (uncle "Carb" was a joker and a con man) Cuthbert was embarrassed to find his claims of consanguinity with those prominent families was a blind for skulduggery. It all proved out when Carb absconded with Marvis's hat pin collection.
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A cursory search of the Institute records shows Carborundum swept
the Chugwater 500 in 1911, racing in the Nude Guy, Playing Piano, on
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Post by Rich Eagle » Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:06 pm

I might add that the Motorcycle Sidecar Piano as well as the Hat Pin collection are scheduled to be on display at the Institute Homecoming Celebration this Summer.
Guests are welcome to pose nude after 10:30 PM for photos.
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And a special meal is being prepared for all those who attend.
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Post by Rich Eagle » Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:55 pm

That appears to be a demonstration of Buff Orpington's contrivance the "Hip-o-pot-o-mess". Originally, a chamber pot for youngsters and later a wheel cover for the Gangglemobile.
This is pretty much what Ma Pucker thought of it.
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Ma Pucker was known throughout the Basin for raising spirits and motivating the depressed with her cheery exhortation "Keep your pecker up !" Few know that Ma Pucker greatly inspired a youthful Ben Turpin before he left the Tri-burgs for Tinsel-town. Eye-crossing contests were popular in the Tri-burg area in those days. Prompted by Buff Orpington's invention of the "hip-o-pot-a-mess", some wags attempted to raise interest in thunder-mug races down snowy slopes to alleviate winter boredom, but the sport never really caught on. The fact that chamber pots were difficult to steer resulted in a few grisly accidents when revelers inadvertently collided with barb-wire fences. Nothing like an occasional decapitation to instill caution in the reckless.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:46 pm

The thunder mug racers tore their organization apart over the debate of
whether the mug be filled with waste matter during the race. Purists held
that the mug MUST be full of fecals, while the more safety conscious of the
group maintained that accidents were messy and posed a health hazard. The
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I'm pretty sure KD took that picture. I see his Racabout wheel behind the truck and the lens smear looks like his.
Sparley Fergler is the one in the bib overalls and hat. He did cook but used steam.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:31 pm

Does anyone know the story of how Kalamity Dick came to impersonate Teddy Roosevelt ? Bartholomew excised this from the Trunk of Values on Ash Wednesday. That's Cuthbert Maddox driving the team, or I'll eat your hat.
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As Ma Pucker told it, Cuthbert and KD were summoned to Washington D. C. to help with the Fenugreek strike in '03. Teddy knew the pair had averted certain disaster during the Nutmeg Incident and had a certain set of skills few others processed.
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Many citizens naturally mistook KD for the President and visa versa. The problem was that Roosevelt was hounded by machine-heads and autofanatics with questions about the windsnuffer cog train and confabulator windings. He was powerless in getting his normal presidential duties appeased. Normal Washington progress came to a standstill. Fortunately Cuthbert and KD were able to fillistrate the Fenugreek fraternity and with some quick-thinking spit-roast and charbroil prescriptions a clenching acquiescence was reached and the two boarded the train for home.
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Post by Rich Bingham » Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:52 am

That explains the two friends' absence during that period in '03. Thanks, Rich. It also explains Cuthbert's subsequent penchant for saying, "Bully ! Bully for you !" in situations where previously he would have most likely said, "Aw, horseshit." Apparently the delicate diplomacy required to defuse the fenugreek incident had a moderating influence on his demeanor.
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Precisely Rich. And that may explain the photo on their trip Home.
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