In all probability because the earliest Coca Cola contained cocaine. "Col John Pemberton marketed his drink as a tonic for most common ailments, basing it on cocaine from the coca leaf and caffeine-rich extracts of the kola nut; the cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola's formula in about 1903."
No clue. maybe because early cola contained cocaine. then after it was known that cocaine was actually an addictive drug people began calling it “dope.” just my da opinion.
There's a number of places around us by the old-fashion German Baptist (like Amish) that make their own maple syrup. One guy used to have an out building on his farm where he boiled down the syrup and sold it. There wasn't a maple tree on his whole farm. He arranged with friends, or contracted with them to tap their trees.
There's a park in a little town around here where this time of years the turkey vultures are all over. Trees are covered with them. Friend of mine counted/lost count at a 100 last year. Needless to say a lot of people don't go to the park when they're there.I've observed over 200 vulture in a single committee. Most folks don't realize that the Turkey vultures forage by smell. They can see other vultures several miles distant. Their primary foraging strategy is to spread out as a scattered flock sniffing their way across the land scape. When they smell carrion they circle the odor. Seeing this other animals are then attracted. That is significant for several reasons. A committee is more efficient locating the food. Our testing showed that they could locate a buried carcass buried as deep as 10 inches and dig it up. Additionally the TV has a relatively weak beak leaving the nutrition of larger animals with tough hides unavailable. The circling also serves to attract more powerful scavengers capable of opening the carcass allowing access. In western rangelands, it might be Coyotes, bears or golden eagles. Avian scavengers will circle thousands of feet over the foraging vultures in dense jungle environs. The King vulture depends on the this to locate food. A case of interspecific cooperation.
Me too, that practice is important for falcon survival. An error at 200 mph likely to result in fatality. Mortality among raptor fledglings approach 80%. Accipiters (being true hawks) on the other hand are more efficient hunters and content as fearless hunters not afraid of a fight. Just as hazardous. Still not as vicious as weasels.
We definitely got funny looks in New York when we ordered a pop.
If I quit my job, my wife and kids would disown me. They wouldn't be happy with just window shopping.
Let's get with the program. Buckle up in the park
How true!!! Right there with 'sticks and stones'.
Where did you see this? Parent site? Looked but I don't see anything.
FWIW, visited the National Museum of the Pacific War in of all places, Fredericksburg, TX, not far from you. This was the year UK played A&M. What, F-burg is 150 miles from any salt water? Only made sense it's there in that Nimitz is from there.
I am but a amature bird watcher compared to Mr. Rooster......
OK. Totally missed that. Now your post makes sense....and I'll stand by mine 😉
Seems to me I remember reading that the original Coca Cola was actually an elixir......They used to have a museum in E-Town.....I had been there several times back in the day......I worked one time for about almost a year in their advertising department installing signs.........I was trying to get away from carpentry.....it didn't work....
TI have read that the vultures and buzzards are said to be able to smell the gas that starts developing in a dead animal approximately an hour after the animal dies......(I guess temps have something to do with that).....Buzzards like fresh kill and vultures like it a bit more ripe.......I've observed over 200 vulture in a single committee. Most folks don't realize that the Turkey vultures forage by smell. They can see other vultures several miles distant. Their primary foraging strategy is to spread out as a scattered flock sniffing their way across the land scape. When they smell carrion they circle the odor. Seeing this other animals are then attracted. That is significant for several reasons. A committee is more efficient locating the food. Our testing showed that they could locate a buried carcass buried as deep as 10 inches and dig it up. Additionally the TV has a relatively weak beak leaving the nutrition of larger animals with tough hides unavailable. The circling also serves to attract more powerful scavengers capable of opening the carcass allowing access. In western rangelands, it might be Coyotes, bears or golden eagles. Avian scavengers will circle thousands of feet over the foraging vultures in dense jungle environs. The King vulture depends on the this to locate food. A case of interspecific cooperation.
Me too, that practice is important for falcon survival. An error at 200 mph likely to result in fatality. Mortality among raptor fledglings approach 80%. Accipiters (being true hawks) on the other hand are more efficient hunters and content as fearless hunters not afraid of a fight. Just as hazardous. Still not as vicious as weasels.
He's already in the park so hand smilely a badge and some tools.Let's get with the program. Buckle up in the park
Nope, just my BS is zoology .
He's already in the park so hand smilely a badge and some tools.
Nope, just my BS is zoology .
That is where my in-laws live/lived.....back up in the mountains....
Two summers I worked on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. There are some wonderful folks up that way. I was engaged with a long legged girl from up there.
All American vultures consume meat/by products as available. The blacks bully the larger turkeys using more aggressive mob strategies when competing for the same nutrient resources. Yes known to kill and devour calves. That would be just piss poor management by the way. That mobbing strategy is frequently used in the world of glorified lizards. Mob dominance determined in large part upon the participants body mass. For example, Golden eagles like to eat fresh meat and doesn't want to share. They'll give it up to maybe a bear, but more cantankerous with some reluctance to something less ferocious . They can and are ok with killing a condor over a carcass. A flock of condors another story. Mob rules. Eagle will watch from a distance with patience.
You have to know how to handle those mountain girls.........they are wily........46 yrs and the scars to prove it.....😉Two summers I worked on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. There are some wonderful folks up that way. I was engaged with a long legged girl from up there.
She dumped me like a bad habit.
Two summers I worked on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. There are some wonderful folks up that way. I was engaged with a long legged girl from up there.
She dumped me like a bad habit.
Yep, tell me about it. Both my ex-wives are mountain gals. Stubborn as heck.
Yep! I remember it.
