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PHPaul wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 4:57 pm Well, if I might let my pedantic inner child out to play for a moment:

It's not "hair" lip, it's "hare" lip as in rabbit. A rabbit's upper lip is divided in the middle. There's a birth defect in humans that does the same thing. If uncorrected, causes a speech impediment. Have a cousin that has that.

Well, I'll be damned!! 70 years old and I learned something brand new!

Thanks, Gene

You're welcome.

I have been (rightfully) accused of being a compendium of little known but useless facts...

PHPaul wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 4:59 pm BTW, one of the nicknames for a certain brand of truck is "Harelipped Duck"

Because a harelipped duck would say "Mack, mack"...

I had also never heard of a Mack called that. I remember some of the CB slang about certain truck lines.

Navaho was called the " Blue eyed Indian". Consolidated Freight (CF) was the "Corn Flakes" or Corn Flaker" But right at the moment, I am drawing a blank on others.

Many of those big ole truck lines are out of business. There was also Yellow.

Gene