2-26-2008 Storm

[Sammy]

Have about 4-5 inchs of new snow last night.
Still snowing. You guys out there, have fun !

[Seascape]

Great!!!!

So whats this mean? We gotta sita round here and listen to you yap yer jaws all day while yer snowed in?

[Bulldog26]

Just got in, been plowing since 2am and it's still coming down.

[Sammy]

So whats this mean? We gotta sita round here and listen to you yap yer jaws all day while yer snowed in?

Go Blue !

[Seascape]

Remember this cat? http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d806dbf70

If you dont recognize him ,, ask Chad Penny............ he'll tell ya all about him.

BTW.......... anybody seen Chad Penny at the combines?

[Sammy]

Remember this cat?

SissyScape,

Please start your own thread in the OT forum. ..... TY

[Sammy]

Just got in, been plowing since 2am and it's still coming down.

It let up for awhile, but now has started again.

[Seascape]

Putting UM win record into perspective

SissyScape,

Please start your own thread in the OT forum. ..... TY

It seem when UM first started playing organized football, around 1879, apparently there weren't enough college teams around, so they played High School teams and the wins are part of there record to this day.
They recorded wins over Ann Arbor HS, Grand Rapids HS, The Windsor Club, Case Institute of Technology, (26 of UM's wins) Michigan Military Academy, etc. ( 220 wins overall ) A LOT of these wins came before OSU was in existence. UM has 7 recorded National Titles, but only one since 1948 and that was tainted & split (1997). Consider that two of the titles, 1901 & 1902, came before the forward pass was even allowed (1906)
There is much more to this story, it was written by Chris Galoski, for The Olentangy Valley News.

[Sammy]

SissyScape ........

You really need to move past the fact that Ohio State will never have a better record than Michigan.

Now go get new tires for your trailer so you don't hurt anyone.

Have a nice day and enjoy the snow.

[Bulldog26]

Same here....

It let up for awhile, but now has started again.

Sun came out and even melted the snow off the plowed roads. But the lake effect will kick in tonight and will prob. be up again in the morning. Bad with the trucks today..... All three had some issue at one point or another...... worst... broke another axle on the dog. 1500. National back order

[Seascape]

LMFAO...............:laughing:


http://fandome.com/watch.php?vid=98286

UHHHHHHHHHHH Wheres Meatchicken?

[Seascape]

Biologists have linked a mysterious, underwater farting sound to bubbles coming out of a herring's anus. No fish had been known to emit sound from its anus nor to be capable of producing such a high-pitched noise.

"It sounds just like a high-pitched raspberry," says Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (Listen here, .wav file). Wilson and his colleagues cannot be sure why herring make this sound, but initial research suggests that it might explain the puzzle of how shoals keep together after dark.

"Surprising and interesting" is how aquatic acoustic specialist Dennis Higgs, of the University of Windsor in Ontario, describes the discovery. It is the first case of a fish potentially using high frequency for communication, he believes.

Arthur Popper, an aquatic bio-acoustic specialist at the University of Maryland, US, is also intrigued. "I'd not have thought of it, but fish do very strange and diverse things," he says

Grunts and buzzes
Fish are known to call out to potential mates with low "grunts and buzzes", produced by wobbling a balloon of air called the swim bladder located in the abdomen. The swim bladder inflates and deflates to adjust the fish's buoyancy.

The biologists initially assumed that the swim bladder was also producing the high-pitched sound they had detected. But then they noticed that a stream of bubbles expelled from the fish's anus corresponded exactly with the timing of the noise. So a more likely cause was air escaping from the swim bladder through the anus.

It was at this point that the team named the noise Fast Repetitive Tick (FRT). But Wilson points that, unlike a human fart, the sounds are probably not caused by digestive gases because the number of sounds does not change when the fish are fed.

The researchers also tested whether the fish were farting from fear, perhaps to sound an alarm. But when they exposed fish to a shark scent, there was again no change in the number of FRTs.

Night waves
Finally, three observations persuaded the researchers that the FRT is most likely produced for communication. Firstly, when more herring are in a tank, the researchers record more FRTs per fish.

Secondly, the herring are only noisy after dark, indicating that the sounds might allow the fish to locate one another when they cannot be seen. Thirdly, the biologists know that herrings can hear sounds of this frequency, while most fish cannot. This would allow them to communicate by FRT without alerting predators to their presence.

Wilson emphasises that at present this idea is just a theory. But the discovery is still useful, he says. Herring might be tracked by their FRTs, in the same way that whales and dolphins are monitored by their high-pitched squeals. Fishermen might even exploit this to locate shoals.

There may even be a conservation issue. Some experts believe human-generated sounds can damage underwater mammals. Now it seems underwater noise might disrupt fish too.

Journal reference: Biology Letters (DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0107)