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What we do have, however, is a lifelong Masters patron and Augusta food blogger who wasn’t above reverse-engineering the ingredients list from the back of the w
by DoreenMichele 6y ago
What we do have, however, is a lifelong Masters patron and Augusta food blogger who wasn’t above reverse-engineering the ingredients list from the back of the wrapper in 2016. It’s an imitation of an imitation of an approximation...
That's such a delightful description.
When a new building is constructed, he says, it simply appears the day of the tournament’s opening, already inexplicably covered in vines.
(Insert joke about how fast kudzu grows -- This is Georgia, after all.)
The pimento cheese he sold from his store, Woodruff Drug in Aiken, South Carolina, won so many fans across the region that in the 1960s, Masters organizers dropped the husband-and-wife catering team they’d hired since the 1940s to make way for Rangos.
For those not familiar with the area, Augusta is in Georgia and smooshed up against the Georgia-South Carolina state border. Aiken, South Carolina is about 20 miles away, about a thirty minute drive to some parts of Augusta. Augusta is a sprawling city. You can probably drive thirty minutes from point A to point B within Augusta, so reaching out to a unique business in a small town a few miles away is completely reasonable and not some big huge deal, logistically.
Not to take anything away from the small business, just saying that "going to a whole other state!!!" is like tossing a rock across the river in this case, because some river no doubt serves as the demarcation for the state border.
- javert 6y ago> tossing a rock across the river Rivers can be miles wide. That's actually the norm in a lot of people's experiences. Where I am from, "tossing a rock across the river" would be taken to mean something that's impossible.
- wil421 6y agoOP used his own version of a stone’s throw away. It’s farther away than a Hop, Skip, and, a Jump but not as close as spitting distance. Still not sure if a Hop, Skip, and a Jump is closer or father away than something you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.
- grimjack00 6y agoThe world record for the triple jump [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump] is just over 18 meters, so quite a bit further than a 10 foot pole.
- chihuahua 6y agoBut is a triple jump the same as a hop, skip and jump? It seems to me that a hop and a skip are each smaller than a jump.
- lmkg 6y agoThe triple-jump event is literally described as "a hop, skip, and jump." The three bounding motions are done in a sequence without breaking forward momentum, so "triple jump" is an accurate description of the combination, while "hop, skip and jump" is an accurate description of each of the three bounds individually.
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- DoreenMichele 6y agohttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013WR015068 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201... https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34400/how-wide-can-a-river-be https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34400/how-... -- Potentially 60 miles, if you consider The Florida Everglades to be a slow moving river. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-water-depth-m-and-water-body-WB-width-m-in-the-river-and-the-forest-with_tbl1_328429345 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-water-depth-m-an... This site lists 30m as "average" for river width. No clue what rivers they were measuring. https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac35-sci-riverwidth/river-width-north-american-rivers-and-their-widths/ https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac35-sci-riverwi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River It seems there is no readily available canned answer for average river width and I've already grown bored with this rabbit hole. Note to self: Vernacular measures unwelcome on HN.
- samatman 6y agoIllegitimi non carborundum, Doreen.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoNah. I have had one whole class in Hydrology. I read books about water (rights and development history, for example) for fun. [1] I just tuckered out before getting to the part of trying to look up average river width for my home state of Georgia. I'm just tired today, as is often the case, or I would be all over that. [1] Citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650
- javert 6y agoFYI, my point about river width was not a put down in any way. I'm not sure if you took it that way. It seems like other people did. Average river width is not representative because there are often big population centers near wider parts of rivers. For example, when the east cost of the US was settled, people built cities on the wide, navigable (for big ships) parts of rivers that were close to the ocean.
- benatkin 6y agoWhat you often see about really wide rivers: > Depending on the geographer, the Río de la Plata may be considered a river, an estuary, a gulf, or a marginal sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata Fine to assume the river isn't miles wide.