How many know?

[Kenneth Brown]

Short of people from Texas who knew what Heycods was talking about? Here in Texas we call ponds tanks. We also call lunch dinner. So who knew?

 

[heycods]

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Aint if great I passed a test, for the first time in years. Ok mutley make sure I dont double post.

 

[JRJ]

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I knew about dinner but I didn't know about tanks. What do you call a large above ground container of liquid? We call them vats here

 

[CJY]

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So then, what does your car hold its fuel in? <br /><br />Gas ponds?

 

[Bassy]

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Nope, I didn't know that.

 

[JB]

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Originally a tank was a large, above ground vessel for watering stock. They were filled by a windmill pump from a well. They also served stockmen and hands as a cooling bath and stock-kids for recreation.<br /><br />When stockmen started using the windmills to fill big holes in the earth they still called them tanks.<br /><br />Today, any body of water built specifically to water stock is a tank. Most are filled by runoff except in very low rainfall areas, where the wells are still used, often with windmill pumps.<br /><br />The above ground large metal vessels are called many things. My neighbors call them tubs. I have 100 gallon and 500 gallon tubs. Grandbuddies love the 500. It is 8' diameter, round, and about 3' deep.<br /><br />It is not uncommon for small ponds. . .less than 5 acres. . .to be called tanks regardless of their purpose. Anything over 5 acres is usually a lake.

 

[heycods]

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jRJ & CJY tanks tanks and tanks language is simple here. or more to the point, storage tanks and fuel tanks. tanks or ponds are stock tanks, shortened to just tanks. If your comming for supper come at 6:00, dinners at 12:00 and breakfast is at 4:30 am, after chores, feeding chickens, milking cows and feeding the other barnyard animals. then its time to go to work.<br /><br />God Im glad them days are over.

 

[JRJ]

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Thanks heycods, 0430 your time is easy But whats for supper? My Dad was born in Texas so I feel a little connected, but not in a cowboy way

 

[TexomaAv8r]

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I knew that, but I also have strong conections in Kansas where a creek is a crick and ponds/tanks are interchangeable.

 

[heycods]

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JRJ Stew for Supper, got plenty of left-overs.Come on down. A good night for stew, a regular cold front blew through this evening. it 54* now.<br /><br /> Come on kenith lets hyjack this thread.

 

[NOSLEEP]

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Interesting tanks. We call e'm Dugouts here.

 

[heycods]

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Originally posted by NOSLEEP:<br /> Interesting tanks. We call e'm Dugouts here.

Dugouts: eastern US Iroqua Indians Canoe. <br />Ok KB you can have it back im off to bed, gotta get up at 4:30 you know

 

[JRJ]

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Originally posted by heycods:<br /> JRJ Stew for Supper, got plenty of left-overs.Come on down. A good night for stew, a regular cold front blew through this evening. it 54* now.<br /><br /> Come on kenith lets hyjack this thread.

48 and rain here soon I'd send you some if I could Thanks for the invite

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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The only tanks I know, you can blow stuff up with them and that, I like.

 

[technostingray]

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Me too, me too. I knew, I knew.

 

[heycods]

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Originally posted by SBN:<br /> The only tanks I know, you can blow stuff up with them and that, I like.

Didnt you play with ARMY tanks when you were a kid?

 

[technostingray]

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Originally posted by heycods:<br />

Originally posted by SBN:<br /> The only tanks I know, you can blow stuff up with them and that, I like.

Didnt you play with ARMY tanks when you were a kid?

Supper's over and dinner's a cookin', ol' Dan Tucker just stan's there a lookin'

 

[jtexas]

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and when someone says "what kind of Coke do you want" they don't mean "original, caffeine free, diet, caffeine-free diet, etc." instead they mean "Co-cola, Dr. Pepper, Big Red, 7-Up, etc."<br /><br /><br />

Originally posted by NOSLEEP:<br /> Interesting tanks. We call e'm Dugouts here.

you find a dugout at a baseball park

 

[NOSLEEP]

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Ya, that too jtexas.<br /><br />And the canoe thing.

 

[Newportme]

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Farm ponds up here in Maine