Buffer stop, a stopping device on railroads, which is also known as a bumper
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The Rolex Watch Company improved Harwood's design in 1930 and used it as the basis for the Rolex Oyster Perpetual, in which the centrally mounted semi-circular weight could rotate through a full 360° rather than the 300° of the 'bumper' winder.
(1)This followed the extremely popular and visible "New Orleans: Proud To Swim Home" bumper sticker which was a conception of Dan Haugh, and seen in the Spike Lee documentary When the Levees Broke.
Thurston and Kim originally found the name of the horse on a bumper sticker that Bob Nastanovich of Pavement had given them.
In Israel, one of the most popular songs of all time is "Shirat Hasticker" ("The Sticker Song") by Hadag Nachash, a song composed entirely of bumper sticker slogans.
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The first widespread use of the advertising bumper sticker might have been the ubiquitous "See Rock City" signs, touting a tourist attraction atop Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
Dagmar bumpers, slang term for the artillery-shell-shaped styling elements found on the front bumper/grille assemblies on several makes of cars produced in the 1950s (named for Egnor after her rise to fame)
Among his other contributions to the use of electro-acoustic music in television were numerous station IDs and commercials, including that of the National Educational Television network (the forerunner to PBS), the 1966 CBS "in color" bumper, the news sounder for the ABC Radio Networks, and the 1965–1976 Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television logos.
In a commercial bumper during an episode of Pardon the Interruption that first aired August 3, 2010, Tony Kornheiser mentioned that in Frackville it's 20 degrees colder than anywhere else on Earth.
Fred Farrar was a non-playing substitute for England against New Zealand, and had been previously complimented on his length-of-the field try for Hunslet against Leeds at Headingley Stadium by Hercules Richard "Bumper" Wright who was watching his first British rugby league match.
Some World Rally Championship cars use a reverse-induction system design whereby air is forced through ducts in the front bumper to a horizontally mounted intercooler.
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Cars such as the Nissan Skyline, Saab, Volvo 200 Series Turbo, Volvo 700 Series (and 900 series) turbo, Dodge SRT-4, 1st gen Mazda MX-6, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Chevrolet Cobalt SS all use front mounted intercooler(s) mounted near the front bumper, in line with the car's radiator.
Vicevich, a self-labeled social libertarian and political conservative, often frames his commentary between bumper-music from upstart Americana performers.
Under the soft rock format, KBKB promoted itself as a hip modern rocking "River Town" station that still had its roots firmly planted in the local Southeast Iowa river valley heritage, and often used a bumper jingle that was based on the blues song "Ol' Man River" with the line: That Ol' man river, he keeps on rolling, just keeps on rolling with K-B-K-B.
For several years a clip of Baker's rendition accompanied a bumper for Turner Classic Movies' morning programming block, titled "Sunny Side of Life" and featuring animation inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper.
National Hunt Flat races, informally known as Bumper races, are flat races run under National Hunt racing rules in Britain and Ireland.
The new Myvi features a modified front grille, front bumper, front bonnet, rear bumper, alloy rims, dashboard color, instrument panel design, MP3/WMA player and seat fabric.
The song "Light You Up", released on Wooden Bones, was featured at TIFF 09, being used during each film screening's opening bumper to promote the Festival's various film categories, the Bell Lightbox as well as major sponsors.
The sled in the second episode Blast Off! has Rosebud on the bumper, referencing Citizen Kane.
Music video for "Pull Up to the Bumper" is a combination of live footage with Jones performing the song on her A One Man Show and excerpts from Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary film Koyaanisqatsi.
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Music critic and writer Glenn O'Brien called "Pull Up to the Bumper" "Grace's first car radio hit".
Instrumental portions of the song were used as bumper music for the Tom Hatten hosted Family Film Festival on KTLA.
This song is currently being used as the intro song to Art Bell's Dark Matter, Art Bell's new radio program, after several years of being used as bumper music for Coast to Coast AM.
Skitching, hitching a ride on a car's bumper while skateboarding, or in the snow
A fan's post to the Nirvana newsgroup, alt.music.nirvana, revealed that Cobain had taken a bumper sticker from the Feederz' Teachers in Space LP and proudly stuck it on his all-black Fender Stratocaster, made famous at the 1991 Reading Festival (see Reading and Leeds Festivals) in England, where Nirvana performed with Sonic Youth.
When Professor Bumper discovers that Tom is headed to the same general area, Rimac, Professor Bumper decides to join the company.
Additional details of the design include adaptive headlamps housed in hand polished surrounds designed to look like Baccarat crystal tumblers and chrome exhaust vents integrated into the rear bumper.
However, in order to achieve these levels of power it is necessary to make quite a number of changes - exchanging the intercooler for a larger version and relocating it to the front bumper, installing a revised exhaust and induction kit, plus a number of electronic engine management devices to alter the fuelling and turbo boost safety points.
The song "Up All Night" from this album is used as the bumper music for the final segment of the U.S. sports radio show The Jim Rome Show.
It also included a segment of tribute to Michael Jackson, snippets of Casey Kasem describing the then-new Compact Disc technology from a 1980s American Top 40, and even old airchecks of bumpers from 99X (from its days on 99.7 FM) and predecessor Power 99 (WAPW), as well as WQXI.
On the last episode of the CBS show WKRP in Cincinnati, entitled, "Up and Down the Dial", which aired on April 21, 1982, a WAKG FM 103 bumper sticker is very visible in program director Andy Travis' office (actual bumper stickers were sent to the show and displayed on the office set).
In 1971, Aloysia Wood was injured on the Grand Prix bumper-car ride at Walt Disney World when her then-fiance, Daniel Wood, rammed his car into the rear of hers.