New word of the day for February, 20 2019
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Started by metmike - Feb. 20, 2019, 2:53 a.m.

Puddle Jumper

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By carlberky - Feb. 20, 2019, 9:08 a.m.
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No google for this one.

 In the 1930's there was a kid show hosted by "Uncle Don" who talked about his Puddle Jumper, an autogiro.

The show was very popular … until Uncle got caught using profanity on a live mike.

By metmike - Feb. 20, 2019, 2:59 p.m.
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By metmike - Feb. 20, 2019, 3:01 p.m.
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OK, the real answer:

puddle jumper

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puddle_jumper

A small passenger airplane, typically used for shorter connecting trips to smaller airports.


By metmike - Feb. 20, 2019, 3:05 p.m.
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I have a sister that's lived in Anchorage for 3 decades:


Traveling the Puddle Jumpers

http://livinginak.blogspot.com/2009/03/travelling-puddle-jumpers.html

By carlberky - Feb. 20, 2019, 4:52 p.m.
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autogiro  -  a form of aircraft with freely rotating horizontal vanes and a propeller. It differs from a helicopter in that the vanes are not powered but rotate in the slipstream, propulsion being by a conventional mounted engine.

By metmike - Feb. 20, 2019, 6:40 p.m.
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By metmike - Feb. 20, 2019, 6:42 p.m.
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By JP - Feb. 20, 2019, 7:47 p.m.
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Well Carl, it may please you to hear that, according to Wikipedia -- the world's most respected source of information -- Uncle Don was probably innocent of that charge!


Puddle-Jumpin' Mother%$@*^^  

By carlberky - Feb. 21, 2019, 8:35 a.m.
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Thanks, John. I am pleased  to have Uncle Don vindicated in my mind after all these many, many years.

" Although this legend has been applied to Uncle Don and nearly everyone else who ever hosted a children’s radio program between the 1920s and the 1960s (and even to some television hosts as well), it is perhaps the greatest apocryphal “manufactured memory” in American popular culture." (Snopes)