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I don't know what separates a blizzard from a snowstormThis is really dumb, me replying to my own post. But I managed to find a great thing about blizzards (definitions of) and some great descriptive stuff, for all you who have never experienced such a thing: http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/arc2000/alm00jan.htm
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In addition to the well known snow shovel, there is the motorized snow blower and the efficient snow scoop. Our local paper has also had contests to name the gunk which accumulates in the wheel wells, but so far none of the nominations has hit squarely. Michigan Tech University has a Winter Festival every year, with a spectacular snow sculpture contest. There is a photo of one of the entries on the bottom left of this page: http://www.fannyhooe.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?target=14EDIT: more photos of snow sculptureshttp://www.cs.mtu.edu/~yinma/life/WinterCarnival2001.html
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is called a pizza paddle. But somewhere in the back of my mind there's another word for it.
And have youy ever noticed that a peson who works around the oven has no hair on his or her forearms. Burnt off from the heat of the oven. Now: do NOT think about where those ashes go. I defy you to STOP thinking about it now that the image has been planted in your mind.
TEd -- who cooks his own pizzas, thank you
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blobs in your wheel wells: we call them crud-budgies. NO idea why.
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re:And what is the name of the similarly-shaped thing in a pizzeria?
a peel. and pizza ovens are technically peel ovens. from the latin pala, related to the latin word for a stake or stick..(leads into stockade, and pale..) (some where in a RATA (or a yart, or what ever) in some food thread, i actually made a pun with peel.
Ny'ers call them ice choppers too, and since we don't chop wood, never thought to made that association.. but they do work like old fashioned choppers for nuts.. remember them? a cutter, in a jar with a wood block in the bottom, and you pushed down to chop nuts or parsley? not a food thread, not a food thread..think about chopping, a verb..
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Here's another one: circular ice formations are pancakes. There's a photo of some pancakes on the middle right of this page:
www.pasty.com/cam/2001/cam012101.html
Note that the photo was taken with the Pasty cam!
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crud-budgies.
My mom says "crud-bugs" when she needs a non-serious swear. No idea why.
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Sparteye, I'm supposed to be working! But you tempt me to look up too many things. In this case, Newfoundland words for ice-related things, all of which I've heard but since I don't actually work on the sea I looked up the definitions for accuracy:
ice pans - seem to be like your pancakes copying - jumping from pan to pan (rather dangerous, but used to be a childrens' pastime) growler -"Piece of floating ice esp hazardous to vessels because of its instability or indeterminate size." (Dictionary of Nfld. English) bergy bit - "large chunk of glacier ice (a very small iceberg) floating in the sea" (All About...Glaciers) slob ice - "Heavy, slushy, densely packed mass of ice fragments, snow and freezing water, esp. on the surface of the sea; sludge" (Dictionary of Nfld. English)
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All this talk about snow!! NYC has steam pipes under many streets, and many of them leak (steam!) (you know those scene in movies, where a scary character appears out of a fog..)
it's rare for manhattan to have very much in the way of snow accumulations. steam heated streets don't favor snow.
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NYC has steam pipes under many streets
Am I missing something obvious here? Why would there be steam pipes under the streets? Or is that just incidental to some other use for the pipes? Needless to say, snow doesn't usually accumulates near a sewer grate...all that nice hot stuff (!) running into the sewer keeps it quite warm...YUCK!
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