Comments on: Coming Down the Pike

By: LGW

LGW — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:42:16 +0000

An aircraft on approach is “in the pipe” if it is following an acceptable path to landing, which can be pictured as a pipe as there is some room to be off-center and still be acceptable. In this sense I guess you could throw a baseball “down the pipe”. Both uses are technical jargon, however.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:01:13 +0000

Lavonne,
You’ve stumped me. I wouldn’t use either expression for throwing a baseball.

By: Lavonne Carpenter

Lavonne Carpenter — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:10:47 +0000

My 14 year old son says that when you throw the baseball, You throw it down the pipe. He laughs at me because I say down the pike. Which is it? Please don’t let me be wrong, I’m the mama!!lol

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:57:43 +0000

In Iowa and Minnesota we often fished for the Northern Pike, or Walleye Pike, or even the muskie or muskellunge – members of the perch fish family. My Chambers claims the walleye and other pike-type fish are called that because of the pointed – pike like – snout. I never did hear a fisherman angling for walleye or northern as a “piker.”

@ Connie, Pike’s Peak was named for the explorer, Zebulon Pike, that claimed and got recorded as reaching the top of the mountain over Colorado Springs. Of course, we have no record of the people that didn’t claim or get recorded if they got there before Z. Pike. And no one recorded the two trips I made, in the 1950s with my folks, and again in the 1990s.

By: Nuscha

Nuscha — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:39:55 +0000

mbatey: I just clicked on your user-name, because I found the name of the website intriguing, wondering “Workshop on what?”, hoping for “… writing”, of course.
Such a great trailer! Must be the first one on the internet I watched fully. Ever!
A very interesting mix. And I loved the little plays on words and tongue in cheek.