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Urban Legend, they actually do echo...
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Yup; was hiking the Big Sur Bird Sanctuary and came upon 2 ducks "making out" in the cliffs of a cove high above the surfline. The male's expressed "happiness" reverberated (for a very long time).
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...sorry couldn't help myself from sharing the mental image ur post gave me...
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Yes, I saw that, too, but didn't want to spin it any more than the author.
Two more, in an automotive vein:
The Ferrari insignia:
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"Francesco Baracca was a "cavalier of the sky" (cavaliere del cielo), a WWI ace whose family granted Enzo Ferrari the use of his heraldic symbol...
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Lamborghini
Countach:
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It's an epithet in Piemontese dialect---as in striking one's forehead and uttering "Countach!"...
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(Both from the January 2007 issue of
Road & Track , print edition)