Not long, chores to do and all that stuff. Simple though. The Wiki explanation was confusing. That's not hard to do with the running around I just came home from. I'm in a bit of a fibro daze. Just the basics.
AK in PA
Pig iron? Perhaps they were making a pun, a play on words?
We are also getting a minor league team and a new stadium. It boggles the mind. Tax revenue is down, the gov is cutting services, the city decides to take the central fire station and some surrounding property to build a stadium. Also a new fire station to replace the one they're grabbing. I'm not sure where the money is coming from -- but we're still paying for the bowling stadium, too.
I guess they figure there will be new sources of revenue both from the taxes imposed on the sales at the stadium. Also at local vendors, which might increase in number and quality at that end of town.
At least there will be a place for the July 4th fireworks now.
They altered the school district stadium which used to host the fireworks so it could not hold even half of what it used to. Then they tried to hold it at the local small plane airport. Nightmare traffic situation. Total gridlock for several hours. Needless to say, we haven't had any fireworks for a few years.
Where do these beaureucrats get these harebrained schemes. And where do they think the bottomless pockets are to pay for all this stuff.
Just out of curiosity, bowling stadium??
Oh yeah, the idea that started this response. How do we (fans) cheer for the Iron Pigs?? Go Pigs!! ?? Do they steel bases??
AK in PA
Our fireworks for the 4th are usually set off in a big park. Other fireworks are regularly set off from the roofs of casinos, such as the Silver Legacy, Circus Circus and the Eldorado. I can see those from my livingroom window.
Steel bases for the iron pigs? You could have a magnetic attraction for the sport.
AK&DStrohl wrote: Our city, actually three city area, has
In case there are some readers who are not "in the know", pig iron is the first, raw iron which comes out of the blast furnace. It is (or used to be) normally poured into semi-cylindrical moulds to cool and harden before being sent off for further processing. The lumps of iron which come out of these moulds are "iron pigs". Another, slightly different use of the term is for iron cylinders which are pulled through pipes of any sort to clean off any debris sticking to the sides.
Therefore, presumably, your Iron Pigs are rough and tough, just somewhat less refined than the Steelers??????????????????
(nudge, nudge, wink, wink.)
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
According to my dictionary, a pig is an open-sand casting of metal run directly from the smelting furnace. When the team was named, everyone would have been familiar with iron pigs.
Joy Beeson
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yeah, i was wondering about that too...
sooooooooooooWEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee perhaps? Iron Pigs is better than Beer Pigs (but maybe that would be the fans?) are the Iron Pigs going to play the Fisher Cats (the NH team)? lee
It is, Spouse was a metallurgist, responsible for the quality of iron produced in a large ferrous foundry, when I met him. The pigs were small and light enough to be handled.
It's really quite interesting, a large mould has several smaller ones coming from it, the large one endls up looking like a sow with a row of piglets hanging on to her :-)
Mary
:-)) Yeah, but really, be honest about them. They don't count as high as hill of beans in the cricketing world.
LOL. I do have some sympathy for the poor old Poms. It would get up my left nostril if I knew that my country was the ancestral home of the game but we could never seem to do much again all those pesky colonials.
:-)) Unfortunately it isn't a simple game, even though it can be appreciated by just watching it and letting it flow over one. Often the spectators can be as good to watch as the game especially if the West Indies are playing - lots of steel drumming as I recall it from the only time I saw them play at the Oval in London. It can take years to understand it. I know there are 11 ways of being out (or is it 12?), but I certainly couldn't name all of them
Then there are delightful descriptions of fielding positions like "silly mid on", "leg slip", "fine leg", "leg gully" etc
Baseball is the national pasttime. And there
Avctually I think it sounds like a good name for a town with steel industry connections.
True, but that apple pie has never been a uniquely American thing :-))
And now to top it all off.... On page one of the local newspaper........ after 7300 suggestions .........the name of the mascot is............
Pork Chop.
Dear God can it get any worse.
SoooooooooooooooooWeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
AK in PA
Mary and interested others,
My Dad was actually a die designer for the Beth Steel. He often went into the plant and the labs to check on the quality for the project he was working on.
He'd probably purchase season tickets.
AK in PA
In the small world department, my late uncle was an executive at Bethlehem Steel in Pittsburgh.
A good friend had a rescued pot-belly pig named Pork Chop. He went to piggy heaven from natural causes after a long and happy life. The horse missed him terribly.
You obviously don't follow the game or you'd know that we win a lot of matches.
You must be seeing different games to those that Larry and I have seen. Larry commented that his beloved England team lost on a regular basis. And I know that Australia's wins over England in the Ashes is heavily weighted against England but IIRC, England won the one before last breaking a longish drought. And England hasn't featured at all in the last 4 One Day International World Cups. IIRC, Aus won the last 3 of those and we lost the one before that to Sri Lanka.
I don't see any - no tv - but I follow it.
Mary
Here in the USA, the first 13 colonies to form the USA were not states, but commonwealths. Pennsylvania is a commonwealth, so is Massachusetts, so is NY, VT etc. only the states which joined later are called states.
Sorry, New York is a State! so is Vermont.... the Commonwealths are: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Massachusetts.
had to put my 7 cents in...
amy in CNY
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