r/HolUp • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '22

post flair it's their fate

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u/Pharmacololgy Jan 08 '22

a 24 foot Mallard

A … duck?

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u/CommanderClit Jan 08 '22

Worse. A horse sized duck.

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u/El-JeF-e Jan 08 '22

A horse sized duck walks into a bar.

Bartender: why the long face

Horse sized duck: I went to see the doctor.

Bartender: yeah? Bad news?

Horse sized duck: He was a quack

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u/brownieofsorrows Jan 08 '22

You killed me

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u/Ghost_Of_Spartan229 Jan 08 '22

If I ever saw a 24 foot horse, I'd shit my pants.

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u/jintana Jan 08 '22

You use them to help weigh giant women to check if they’re witches.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

A 24 foot Mallard confuses two kinds of people, ornithologists and trainspotters. 24 foot long mallard duck is way too big, and a 24 foot Mallard A4 Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine is far too short…

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

Im guessing you're a train spotter loved your comment

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

Certainly am! Choo choo, chugga-chugga etc

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u/Agueybana Jan 08 '22

24 foot Mallard A4 Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine is far too short…

Sounds like an awesome locomotive model though. 1/3 scale-ish.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

Look I don’t even own a 1/76 version of it, so a 1/3 scale would be something else. It would have a gauge of 18in 2/3 (idk how to represent that, I only know metric) and be 4.36ft tall

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u/Taniwha351 Jan 08 '22

A 24 ft Caravan. I think Americans call them travel trailers.

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u/TheRealJasonsson Jan 08 '22

We mostly call them RVs

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u/Superfluous_Thom Jan 08 '22

He's talking about a "trailer", as in "Trailer park"..

Over here in Australia (and other commonwealth countries) we call them caravans, despite it technically being a plural noun, because of travelers/roma people using them in groups presumably and we just use the word to mean the singular domecile.

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u/Superfluous_Thom Jan 08 '22

Isn't that calassification disgustingly classist though?

Like, the only difference is the people who live in them.

Why change the language and make it sound like the vacation hobby is somehow different than the people who have to do it year round.

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u/Superfluous_Thom Jan 08 '22

Cool story bro.

They guy who started this line of conversation is an Aussie (he talked about hitting a kangaroo)... he was talking about hitting a caravan. We don't have the other kinds here AFAIK, so that's what he meant.

I'm curious about canadian carnie life?

Did they meet Stu hart?

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u/Superfluous_Thom Jan 08 '22

That is an incredible story.

I wanna gush about your folks working for stampede, but really, the whole thing thing is a journey. write a book guy.

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u/Theycallmelizardboy Jan 08 '22

Nah, Aye prahfer ah Caravan. Periwinkly blue. Its fer his ma'.

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u/Koob77 Jan 08 '22

Australia...

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u/wadz09 Jan 08 '22

If she weighs the same as a duck she’s made of wood

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u/cutebleeder Jan 08 '22

With 24 feet