That milk campaign started almost two decades ago. No one can dispute its success, I suppose, in selling milk, but I always thought the text should have read “Got napkin?” or “Got a clean part of sleeve?”
The slogan came to mind yesterday: I was hanging out along the KVK, teeth chattering as barometer of approaching hypothermia, having fun, and seeing snow and ice in unusual places. So, maybe I can correct what I always imagined to be the flaw of the milk ads . . . Like, the crew of Morgan Reinauer asking . . . “got a snow brush?”
Crewman on Taurus . . .”Got some
warm dry gloves?”
Janice Ann Reinauer herself, “Got my old bow pudding?”
Crew of Katherine Walker, “Got the GPS coordinates?”
Ruth M. Reinauer, “Got a warm notch somewhere, maybe RTC 102?”
Morton S. Bouchard Jr., “Got a berth close by where I can dock this?
Irish Sea, “Got a snow scraper?”
Kimberly Poling, “Got some
warmer ports to deliver to?”
And, I swear, in an Australian-English accent, this pigeon said, “Got some food and hot coffee, or do I need to land on the deck of Piltene out there?”
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders how many days until he gets to walk around without a coat again.
Cold, though it’s all relative. On the coldest day so far in the sixth boro it’s glided to a balmy 16 F; thermometer in Barrow dropped to -38; International Falls, MN -34; Mount Washington Summit, NH -10; Montreal, Massena, and Toronto, -4; Rondout Creek, 0.
For the most-ice-encrusted award, check these fotos from tugster, April 2, 2008, with fotos taken in Boston February 2007. Can anyone out-encrust this encrustedness?
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January 23, 2011 at 10:27 am
Jed
Ahhhh JANICE ANN’s Bow Pudding – THAT was some Marlinespike Seamanship of the FIRST order
January 23, 2011 at 10:57 am
tugster
do you know story or scuttlebutt on why she was so ignobly shorn? yesterday . . . the icicles on her nose seemed to beg for the dignity of that old covering . . .
January 23, 2011 at 4:10 pm
D Merritt
It doesn’t look as chilly as in the Ice Station Zebra post yesterday but still plenty chilly for this “balmy tropics” denizen. And, judging from the photo linked to ‘old bow pudding’ that “Marlinespike Seamanship” …love it, was quite the thing.