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I think it was Jerkwater, they opened, then it was Slapstick, then us.
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This was due, at least in part, to Skiba being the drummer of bands such as Blunt, Jerkwater, and The Traitors, always keeping the rhythm at the back of the stage.
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Prior to that he played in bands including Blunt, Jerkwater, and the Traitors. His mother Joan Skiba is a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Woods Creek Elementary School in Crystal Lake, Illinois. His father Thomas Skiba is an oral surgeon in Crystal Lake. He has two younger twin sisters.
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"Let Stations Build Programs, Sell Tie-ins" by E. H. Sanders. The "visual" portion of the broadcast was supplied by the listener's boundless imagination.Comedian and voice actor Stan Freberg demonstrated this point on his radio show in 1957,"A Lake of Hot Chocolate: Stan Freberg Shows the Way" by Harvey Jerkwater, April 20, 2005 (filingcabinetofthedamned.blogspot.com) using sound effects to dramatize the towing of a 10-ton maraschino cherry by the Royal Canadian Air Force, who dropped it onto a 700-ft.
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PA 915 passes through more farmland with some homes, running near Wells Tannery before heading through a mix of farms and woods and passing through a gap in Rays Hill. PA 915 enters Broad Top Township in Bedford County and becomes Sandy Run Road, heading through wooded areas with some homes prior to turning west through a few agricultural clearings with some homes. The road heads across forested Kimber Mountain, curving to the north. The route winds northwest through more forests, passing through Sandy Run and Jerkwater.
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When a train stopped for water and was positioned by a water tower, the boilerman swung out the spigot arm over the water tender and "jerked" the chain to begin watering. This gave rise to a 19th-century slang term "Jerkwater town" for towns too insignificant to have a regular train station.Irving Lewis Allen (1993) "The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech", Oxford University Press, p. 254 Some water stops grew into established settlements: for example, the town of Coalinga, California, formerly, Coaling Station A, gets its name from the original coal stop at this location.
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This was known as "jerking water" and led to the term "jerkwater towns" (meaning a small town, a term which today is considered derisive). In Australia and South Africa, locomotives in drier regions operated with large oversized tenders and some even had an additional water wagon, sometimes called a "canteen" or in Australia (particularly in New South Wales) a "water gin". Steam locomotives working on underground railways (such as London's Metropolitan Railway) were fitted with condensing apparatus to prevent steam from escaping into the railway tunnels. These were still being used between King's Cross and Moorgate into the early 1960s.
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