New toy!

[tyson]

I now have an Anas Acuda in my garage, but my dry-top hasn't been returned from Stohlquist yet. ...what to do?

Thank you Peter!

[Brian Nystrom]

I now have an Anas Acuda in my garage, but my dry-top hasn't been returned from Stohlquist yet. ...what to do?

Thank you Peter!

That would be Anas "Acuta".

[tyson]

That would be Anas "Acuta".

Whoops! Sorry about that. ...and I knew that but missed the typo.

Thanks!

Ty

[PeterB]

Whoops! Sorry about that. ...and I knew that but missed the typo.

Thanks!

Ty

Anas acuta is the Latin name for the pintail (duck.) Loosely translated , it means "sharp-tailed duck".

[Phil Allen]

so would that make the anas acuda a sharp tailed barracuda?

Phil

[tyson]

Anas acuta is the Latin name for the pintail (duck.) Loosely translated , it means "sharp-tailed duck".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anas_acuta

[EEL]

I now have an Anas Acuda in my garage, but my dry-top hasn't been returned from Stohlquist yet. ...what to do?

No guts, no Air Medal.

Ed Lawson

[Pintail]

So: did the Romans pronounce "anAs" the same as "anUs", I want to know? Can anyone recollect from one of their former lives? (See "More Lives Than One?" written some years ago by a BBC tv producer who made an interesting investigation of a hypnotherapist who claimed to have regressed subjects back into former incarnations -- fascinating book!)

[brambor]

I would hate to be paddling Anus Acuta

So: did the Romans pronounce "anAs" the same as "anUs", I want to know? Can anyone recollect from one of their former lives? (See "More Lives Than One?" written some years ago by a BBC tv producer who made an interesting investigation of a hypnotherapist who claimed to have regressed subjects back into former incarnations -- fascinating book!)

[NPSheehan]

It appears Valley is really for the Birds

Anas Acuta - Northern Pintial duck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anas_acuta

Pintail - Pintial duck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintail

Avocet - Avocets have long legs and long, thin, upcurved bills (giving their scientific name Recurvirostra) which they sweep from side to side when feeding in the brackish or saline wetlands they prefer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocet

Good thing they didn't come out with a kayak named Recurvirostra avosetta

[PeterB]

So: did the Romans pronounce "anAs" the same as "anUs", I want to know? Can anyone recollect from one of their former lives? (See "More Lives Than One?" written some years ago by a BBC tv producer who made an interesting investigation of a hypnotherapist who claimed to have regressed subjects back into former incarnations -- fascinating book!)

Christopher,

There is no connection between “Anas†" which, translated from Latin, means ‘duck†, and “anus†which , translated from Latin (nus , or "ring" circle") means the circular or ring-like like terminus to the digestive tract , or in other words: “anus.â€

“acuta : refers to “sharp†, Anas “refers to “duck.â€, not anus. If Anas meant "anus", the translation would be†sharp anus,†not "sharp duck". That wouldn't be quite right , would it?

In any event, The Anas acuta is one sharp boat, or ,if I may, one sharp-ass boat.

[EEL]

In any event, The Anas acuta is ..., one sharp-ass boat.

Doing cowboy re-entires has on occasion impressed upon me, as it where, this characteristic.

Ed Lawson

[Pintail]

<There is no connection between “Anas†" which, translated from Latin, means ‘duck†, and “anus†which , translated from Latin (nus , or "ring" circle") means the circular or ring-like like terminus to the digestive tract , or in other words: “anus.†>

Oh, believe me, Peter: I knew that! Eight years of latin were not in vain -- the point was about pronunciation, since this is supposedly a "dead" lingo. Hence the bit about reincarnation...

[Gcosloy]

<There is no connection between “Anas†" which, translated from Latin, means ‘duck†, and “anus†which , translated from Latin (nus , or "ring" circle") means the circular or ring-like like terminus to the digestive tract , or in other words: “anus.†>

Oh, believe me, Peter: I knew that! Eight years of latin were not in vain -- the point was about pronunciation, since this is supposedly a "dead" lingo. Hence the bit about reincarnation...

And then there was 1992, the year that the Queen described as her annus horribilis. Perhaps she suffers from hemorrhoids?