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I just want to know the term for the rolling thunder like noise produced by the mountains out east. Such as the Catskills, White mountains etc. This has been bugging me off and on for years, I know there is a name for it but I can't come up with it.
Anyone?
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Bump. Somebody must know the answer to this. I know I heard the rolling thunder like noise and it was on a clear day! Maybe I'm going crazy!
Was it Bike Week?
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I have never heard of such a thing, but now it is bugging me too!
Thanks a lot Ran48 !!!
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Sorry for the snide remark earlier But I have heard of this, just can't remember what causes it.
I don't think it could come from the ground, do they all fart there at the same time
Sorry for the snide remark earlier But I have heard of this, just can't remember what causes it.
I don't think it could come from the ground, do they all fart there at the same time
I think the Mohican description Master L. Bobio posted is, well, kind of poetic. But your point is well taken due to three words: Boston baked beans.
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O boy, I should have anticipated the various ways this could go! Where the heck are the New Englanders. They can't all be out giving out directions to strangers.
I heard this sound myself - really I did - it comes from the ground (mountains) like they are settling or something. In Rip Van Winkle it is alluded to as Henry Hudson and his merry band playing 9 pins.
Your welcome Yucca - I hope you don't have to wait as long as me for answer.
I'm going to keep bumping this until some one comes up with something other than flatulence or borborygmus!
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Randy MMC #55 - 05PSMCSJCW "Dingo & Kato"
"Holy oleo Batman."............."I didn't know you could yodel, Boy Wonder."
I'm going to keep bumping this until some one comes up with something other than flatulence or borborygmus!
Borgorygmus? That word makes my stomach rumble.
Maybe we just don't understand our New England brethren and cistern. In the midwest we give hamfisted handshakes and are happy to help outsiders in any way we can. The only time New Englanders even open their mouths more than a crack is to stuff in steamers, baked beans, or any of the fine line of hostess products.
traveler: I'm lost. How do I get to Milwaukee?
midwesterner: Why the rush? You can sleep in yonder barn tonight with my daughter and then I'll drive you there tomorrow.
vs.
traveler: I'm lost. Can you tell me how to get to Manchester?
New Englander: I could (then he walks off in further pursuit of chowder).
Hey, just trying to get some kind of/any response from the folks that invented clamdigger pants for me.
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traveler: I'm lost. Can you tell me how to get to Manchester?
New Englander: I could (then he walks off in further pursuit of chowder).
Well its not those New Englander's that you have to worry about its the ones that act all cool and try to "help" you and really have no idea what they are talking about but don't want to admit they are wrong... so they give you wrong directions...
In fact, I am unfamiliar with any New Englander willing to give you directions even if they have all the time in the entire world at their disposal and have travelled your route of inquiry 5 times per day for the past 20 years.
Except chrisnl... I think Chris would volunteer directions.
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Then you have to click "The Catskills" by T. Morris Longstreth and the click onto "Stony Clove". Sorry. A bit complicated.
Stony Clove!
Well, I semi-remember the '60s, so I wasn't all THAT stony...tee hee! Check out these quotes from T. Morris Longstreth, as linked above:
"There was a marvelous point of view, discovered and Cooperized with the name of Hawkeye........"
And this charming excerpt:
"Stony Clove, the cross-bar of the letter H which is completed by the valleys of the Esopus and the Schoharie, is but a gash in mother earth. The mass of the southern Catskills rises in ranged domes, which on that morning dropped into gulfs made pearl-gray by the mists of melting snow. Westward the chain that walls the valley toward Lexington wandered away until it grew soft with lilacs and lavendars. The great expanses of leafless hardwoods gave an unreal tone even to the foreground. The rest of the scene was vibrating in the sun."
Day eight and still no answer! The marvelous link by morknmini is just that, marvelous, but I'm not buying the thunderstorm theory. I will not say that it is totally impossible, just highly unlikely. The sounds I remember hearing were more earthy, less aerial in nature, and occurred on a perfectly clear day! I also remember either reading or being told a name for this phenomenon. Would that I could remember that name!
Another quote from that esteemed link:
"Beneath the cuticle of laziness the dermis of doing something began to itch; and so, seizing a morning of exceeding promise, we once more became horses to our packs, engines to our shoes, and slaves to the map."
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Randy MMC #55 - 05PSMCSJCW "Dingo & Kato"
"Holy oleo Batman."............."I didn't know you could yodel, Boy Wonder."
So then where is chrisnl, upstanding guy that he is? Eh gads, likely swilling blueberry beer and supping on chowder.
Why, I'm sure he's out wandering the streets of Boston right now, looking for the wayward and the lost, eager to lend a hand and direct famished tourists toward the nearest SeaDog and Chowdah...
If your ears burn when someone's talking about you, what burns when someone's typing about you?
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That'd be da fingas. lass.
Oiy, Mistah Chris is probly eitha beggin' Red Sox tickets or change ta buy im some Boston baked beanz. I tole da bloke, I sez, lay offa dem beanz or it's da back a me hand! *
Thanks for sharing your diary. Ran.
I caan't do Baawston accents so haaad to try cockney.
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Sheesh, the one time I don't use the vacation sign-out thread to announce a 48-hour absence! For y'all's information, I was busy seeing a whole mess of music this weekend. The Black Crowes and Tom Petty on Friday night, and then Saturday and Sunday at the Lowell Folk Festival in Lowell, MA, where the various artists from all over the country were falling over themselves gushing about how friendly and open we Massachusetts folk are. :smile: And as a matter of fact, I spent the weekend gorging myself on decidedly untraditional New England fare - pad thai, jamaican vegetable curry, samosas, spinach pie, and collards.
And yes, I do enjoy giving directions, but I have to admit that my father has been known to give tourists directions to the local landfill.
I spent a lot of time in the mountains here, but I have no idea what this thunder phenomenon is called... I'm not familiar with it. Are you talking about something that you can actually hear from several states away, or something that we experience here in New England? I trust that this has been exhaustively Googled already?
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But I have heard of this, just can't remember what causes it.
