"Sticks in My Craw"

My craw must be full of sticks.

For so many years I've heard the old phrase "sticks in ones craw or "sticks in my craw".  First of all, I didn't even know I had a craw.  So, to find out where my craw was,  I did an anatomy google search.  Birds have craws, and then it says an animal's stomach.  I got a little worried when I typed in the search on google as it kept changing my word craw to crab.  No I didn't want to know if humans have crabs, I wanted to know if humans have a craw.

Yes, I know Mr. Googleman, I know humans can have crabs and humans can also eat crabs (the right kind of course) but I assume that I need a craw to eat a crab or anything else for that matter.   Mr. Googleman (or if it Mrs. Googlewoman I wonder) is my craw in my throat?  But did he answer me?  NO NO NO.  What came up was the word crop and then it went on to explain that a crop was also called a coup or a craw but geeze Mr. Googleman was talking about a stomach where food was stored before digestion and then said like an earthworm, bird, leeches.  For some reason I really don't think I got an answer from Mr. or Mrs. Google person.  Dang it!!!  I really wanted to know where my craw was.

From now on anytime I hear someone say it sticks in their craw, I'm going to picture a big old earthworm, fat and dirty and creepy crawly, dropping food into their craw.  I know that what the person really means is something is bothering the person who doesn't have a craw, and that situation is very annoying and it really ticks off the person who doesn't really have a craw. 

My deduction of the situation is that I really don't have a craw until I say "something sticks in my craw", then I must have a craw and it must be full as heck because a lot of things annoy the heck out of me, including lots of people, stupid drivers, high gas prices, my utility bills, and the list goes on but I forgot one important thing that really bothers me, and that's a person who uses long sentences with no break, like this one.  The former sentence really sticks in my craw.  You be the judge.  Annoying isn't it?

 

This is a 1935 picture of the Illinois State Fairgrounds Coliseum.

This was the site of the Republican Convention starting on

June 8, 1935. 

 

 

 

South 5th Street Streetcar, Springfield.

Unknown date but I would guess the 1930's

 

 

 

The following is documentation of particular incidences in Springfield, IL area history.

 

 

April  1917 - An earthquake of moderate intensity occurred at 2:58 p.m. on the 9th of April.  It was felt as a series of rather rapid oscillations in a direction from east to west and lasting about one second each.  Reports indicate that shocks occurred at most Central and Southern Illinois locations.  No damage was done.  Instances were reported of houses jarring violently, people being frightened, telephone bells ringing and shutters on switchboards being jarred open by the vibrations.  At some of the fire stations in Springfield, the men were roused from bed by the "rocking of the beds".  (This was from an earthquake centered at Desota, Missouri and was rated as a category VI on the modified Mercali Intensity Scale - which would be between 5.0 and 5.9 on the Richter Scale.

 

January 1918 - One of the most serious traffic damaging conditions on record occurred the 10th - 14th.  With an accumulated depth of 9.5 inches on ground, snow began falling at 7:45 on the 10th, and by 8:00 am of the 11th it was being driven by a brisk northwest wind, increasing, and accompanied by rapidly falling temperature. The snowfall ended at 5:20 pm amounting to 5.4 inches: but a strong wind continuing caused the light and fluffy snow to drift badly until late of the night on the 12th, although there have been deeper individual drifts in previous storms.  By 3:00 am on the 12th the temperature had fallen to 20 degrees below zero, breaking all former minimum records for January with the exception of that month in1884.

 

"During the day (11th) traffic was considerably hampered, and from Friday night (11th) until Sunday evening (13th) was entirely suspended with the exception of the Illinois Traction System, which maintained occasional service to Decatur and Elkhart. By Sunday evening (13th), all railroads except the C&A managed to operate one or two trains two and from Springfield. No train entered or left the city from Friday night (11) until Monday morning (14th) on the C&A, and their Peoria Division was not in operation until Thursday the 17th. City traffic, in general, was badly demoralized and street car service seriously impaired. Considerable difficulty was experienced Friday, and on Saturday conditions were still worse: three lines not operating, and all cars taken off at 7:00 p.m. Partial service was resumed Sunday. The entire Second Street line, however, was not operated from Friday until Sunday evening.

 

"The unusual combination of deep and drifting snow with high wind and extremely low temperatures produced a condition unprecedented in years. During the night of the 13th, 1.7 inches more of snow fell, making a total accumulated depth of 16.3 inches, which is the greatest depth of snow on ground ever recorded.
 

Quote For The Day

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

--Albert Camus

 

 

I saw the following the other day and about laughed my socks off.  Each day we need to laugh a whole bunch just to ward of the evils of the day.  Enjoy!

 

"A couple was going on vacation but his wife was on a business trip so he went to the destination first and his wife was to meet him there the next day.

 

When he reached his hotel,  he decided to send his wife a quick email.

 

Unfortunately, when he typed her email address, he mistyped a letter and his email was delivered instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away the day before.

 

When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.

 

At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the monitor screen:

 

Dearest Wife,

Just got checked in.  Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow. 

 

p.s.  Sure is hot down here.

 

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