Re: Wheelin'

[farna@xxxxxxx]

I beleive so...  if these are Cormorants -- http://www.taillightking.com/images/Hood%20Ornaments/packard_42-54_Hood_ornament_2.jpg. That would make sense -- Teague worked for Packard at that time. If that's what she meant, she really knows her classic 50's cars!! 

A further search: Wikipedia confirms -- it's a Cormorant! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard (scroll down and check captions under bird hood ornament photo on a 1941). 



On March 6, 2006 Ken Ames wrote:

> Wasn't the cormorant the hood ornament on the Packard - or some other high-end car?
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> Quoting Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > " From: farna@xxxxxxx
> > "
> > " On March 5, 2006 andrew hay wrote:
> > "
> > "
> > " > " The last car built by Studebaker --- whose carriages carried America's
> > " > " Presidents --- in South Bend still is -in- South Bend, in a new museum
> > " > " designed to seem old.  American Motors, the next "last independent" is
> > " > " present in many ways in that place on Chapin Street.  Romney's compact
> > " > " and Teague's cormorant and AMC and S-P --- alive in auto history's
> > mix.
> > " >
> > " > teague's cormorant?  i don't get it.
> > " >
> > " > i read a nero wolfe mystery recently and noted rex stout named wolfe's
> > " > car a cormorant.  connection?
> > "
> > "
> > " Me either. In fact, I looked it up. Other than a sea bird, cormorant
> > " means "greedy and rapacious", which further means "given to seizing
> > " for plunder or the satisfaction of greed; inordinately greedy;
> > " predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition." Maybe in the Wolfe
> > " mystery it was meant as a gas guzzler (greedy for fuel).
> >
> > it's definitely the name of wolfe's own car, and the oblique bits of
> > description suggest a very large and prewar chauffeured limousine.
> > from context i assumed 'cormorant' was merely stout's way of
> > suggesting a luxurious brand.
> >
> > " Now how was AMC any of those? I think she mis-used the word and really
> > " meant something else. Maybe you heard it wrong? Or did you see a
> > " transcript and it got written wrong? Sounds like she meant to say
> > " something positive, not negative.
> >
> > i don't know about that, though stout was extremely literate and
> > probably knew exactly what cormorant meant, and that car appears
> > periodically throughout the wolfe series on the rare occasions when
> > he has to travel.
> >
> > hmmm...  wolfe is sometimes greedy and rapacious, though never at the
> > expense of the defenseless or just.
> >
> > " > " The panel gaps along M-B's new decklid make AMC spaces appear narrow!
> > " >
> > " > saab used to design wide gaps deliberately, so their doors etc.
> > " > couldn't freeze shut.
> > "
> > " Americans tend to judge other cars and cultures by our own conditions
> > " and standards, not withstanding any real reason there may be for
> > " others to think/do otherwise. Hmm... I have to say other cultures do
> > " us the same way -- human nature, I guess.
> >
> > in spades.  all the social bits of our instincts are tuned for small
> > groups, and it's a truism of psych that large groups spontaneously
> > frag into smaller groups, each of which tend to see themselves as 'us'
> > and all the others as 'them'...
> >
> > this digression still leaves the mystery of teague's cormorant...
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> > Andrew Hay                                  the genius nature
> > internet rambler                            is to see what all have seen
> > adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                       and think what none thought
> >
> >
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> >
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