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Rick, there you go again with those strange spellings.... HUMOR not humour. I can understand most of the names but why call it a bonnet? Maybe a hat or cap or how about hood? Something that hoods the engine, right? Now I just cannot understand calling it a bonnet. Maybe someone put a 'bonnet' over the engine on one of the first autos and it stuck, right? How about glove or whisky box? What do you guys call them? What else can you put in them? Braces... How in the world did braces come from suspenders. Do they brace the pants or suspend the pants? People in this world really need to know these things!

Here are some Mississippi River sayings I bet you did not know... "Well stacked" means a paddle wheel boat with nice large stacks. A thing of beauty in it's day. "Blowing your stack" comes from pumping steam into the stacks to knock the ash out of them. Watch out, he's blowing his stack! (See, they burned a lot of wood to create steam and the ash builds up inside the stack. To keep it from choking the fire they used a stream of high pressure steam to blow the ash up and out of...! You get get it, right?)

It is funny how these things start and what they mean today. But Bonnet? Hmmmm? :cheeky:

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Some very good points there Loren,

However, we can't lay claim to either the spelling or the terminology as we inherited them from the Poms.

As for something being well stacked, I assure you mate, we certainly are NOT refering to a couple of smokey chimneys.

Rick.

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