"Today Skedaddle appeals to self-selecting groups, like music lovers and skiers," said Paige Craig, an investor in Skedaddle who was also an early investor in Lyft.
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Meanwhile, Skedaddle is looking at about 250,000 rides in 2016.
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Should winners just give their parents a shoutout and skedaddle?
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Skedaddle was also in talks with Lyft more recently, another source confirmed.
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Placing stinky cat litter around their burrows can prompt them to skedaddle.
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The average price of a ride on Skedaddle is $45 to $50.
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Lyft is not in discussions to acquire Skedaddle, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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I think we've been through that scene, we made the money already, and let's skedaddle.
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The spike in bookings makes Skedaddle one of the unlikely beneficiaries of the presidential inauguration.
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Adam Nestler, Skedaddle co-founder "Each bus asset sits idle 75% of its life," Nestler said.
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"I'm not saying you should skedaddle from every stock with meaningful Chinese exposure," the he said.
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Some of the bookings originated from places where Skedaddle has done little business before, including Wichita, Kan.
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That revenue and demand creation means that the private bus operators are partners rather than competitors for Skedaddle.
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"I'm not saying you should skedaddle from every stock with meaningful Chinese exposure," the "Mad Money" host said.
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Lyft says it's currently "not in discussions to acquire Skedaddle," and it's unclear if conversations with Uber remain active.
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Skedaddle said people were booking bus trips from places where it has done relatively little business, including Wichita, Kan.
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Riders can book, track and rate their transportation providers on Skedaddle, just as they can with Uber or Lyft.
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Users can think of Skedaddle as a Lyft line or Uber pool for either a public or private weekend getaway.
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According to Bill Dowd, founder of Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control, there are many dangers that come with owning a raccoon.
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Skedaddle makes money by securing a discounted rate from the transportation providers for bringing in a higher volume of customers.
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As more people booked seats to the march, Skedaddle employees scrambled to keep up, working longer hours and on weekends.
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Women's March organizers and bus riders have been punctuating their emails to Skedaddle with expressions of relief and heart emojis.
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Since then, a flood of startups, including Skedaddle, an "Uber for buses" company, and Loomia, a wearables company, has followed suit.
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She said about 800 people from Kentucky are now going to the march and nearly half of those will use Skedaddle.
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Uber has been in discussions to acquire Skedaddle for more than a month, an unnamed source familiar with the talks told TechCrunch.
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"Hey, Mountain Goat, it's time to skedaddle," he says, before swaddling her in blankets and hustling her past security toward his jalopy.
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The Skedaddle founders realized that the prospective riders were all going to Washington to be part of the Women's March on Washington.
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Hawk told me with great pride that she converted a handful of undecided voters into Sanders supporters before management told her to skedaddle.
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The surprising beneficiary has been a bus-booking start-up, Skedaddle, which has seen a surge of people booking to attend the march.
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From its experience building out a database of all of these private charter companies, Skedaddle now has a nationwide network it can pull from.
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Skedaddle launched in 2015 to help people find a low-cost and easy way to travel to out-of-town events like music festivals.
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A few days after Donald J. Trump won the presidential election, the founders of Skedaddle, a bus start-up, began seeing some unusual activity.
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But in contrast with Uber and Lyft, all of the vehicles and drivers that Skedaddle contracts with are licensed and insured for commercial operations.
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Harris tells us Gucci had a special attendant from the stadium who instantly sided with the rapper and forced him and his mom to skedaddle.
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Skedaddle began its business with the short-haul trips from cities to the far flung venues where summer concerts, festivals and sporting events tend to live.
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However, Skedaddle entices early route signups by offering the route creator a free seat, and a 20 percent discount for the next nine riders to commit.
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Sadly, he lingers only for a matter of minutes, in the midst of a frenzied effort to shred documents, collect cash and skedaddle out of town.
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Uber and Lyft each held talks to acquire Skedaddle, a startup that creates group bus rides by matching customers headed in the same direction, Axios has learned.
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The territorial males welcome them into their aquatic boudoirs, whereupon immediately after a real female deposits her eggs, the female mimics release their sperm, and then skedaddle.
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And now, what Uber and Lyft have done for ride-sharing inside cities and towns across America, startups like Skedaddle want to do for ride-sharing across America.
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But we can hear MGM's "ultra pool" before we even lay eyes on it, and we turn on our heels and skedaddle back down the Strip to our hotel.
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"We're bringing people to D.C. from as far away as Kansas," said Adam Nestler, one of the founders of Skedaddle, which is based in Boston and New York City.
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On its surface the caper film—based on the true story of the 1985 robbery of the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City—follows a traditional bust-in-and-skedaddle trajectory.
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Skedaddle received media attention earlier this year when the company said it transported more than 11,000 individuals to the Women's March in Washington, D.C., from places as far away as Kansas.
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Mel Gibson just agreed to pay baby mama Oksana Grigorieva 50% more than she was getting last month, but the trade-off is that she has to skedaddle from his home.
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Diplo's pre-Super Bowl show in Houston got an abrupt ending by cops ... who ripped the mic away from him, told everyone to skedaddle, but that doesn't mean they're not fans.
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After Skedaddle, an "Uber for Buses" startup, was featured on Business Insider, a screenshot of the four young male cofounders, smiling atop an article describing an unsavory-sounding mission, ricocheted across Twitter.
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Venues, he added, are going to be happy to give over their lists for a company like Skedaddle, because it can be used as marketing to drive people to their event spaces.
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Then he had a timely change of heart and said he planned to skedaddle back to the state before the storm threatened to bury not only his state, but his political future.
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While Skedaddle aims to someday replace established bus services like Greyhound and Peter Pan, much of its early business has focused on getting people out of cities for trips like weekend getaways.
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So huge was the bookings surge for Skedaddle — the company had interest from thousands more riders than are currently booked — that in early January, it cut off the number of new routes to Washington.
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Launched by a clutch of east coast entrepreneurs led by Adam Nestler, his brother Craig, Brad Werntz and Lou Harwood, Skedaddle began two years ago as a way to bring millennials onto the festival express.
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Denver 245-403 Carolina 240-240 Arizona 221-2 New England 3-1 Cincinnati, Green Bay, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Seattle 3-4 Minnesota 2-403 Houston 1-3 Washington 0-2 Chip Kelly Skedaddle Watch (Series Finale).
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With the election a little more than a month away and few major issues on the table, the House and Senate were going to pass a straightforward stopgap bill to fund the government through early December and then skedaddle.
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It even has its own contribution to the lexicon, as the birthplace of the term "eighty-sixed," derived from the back door at 86 Bedford Street, through which patrons were advised to skedaddle when the police were en route.
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She, using a pseudonym, finds a temporary nursing gig at the town's hospital (I really hope hospitals' actual vetting processes are a bit more rigorous), where she's on the hunt for her cocktail of pills before she and Joy skedaddle.
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While still only operating in a few east coast cities (LA and SF will come this spring), Skedaddle has seen strong traction around both city-to-city routes, as well as one-time transportation needs, like a concert or ski weekend.
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Katie Benner, a technology reporter for The New York Times, found that Skedaddle, a 19-person start-up with an app that lets people collectively commission private bus rides, has had its largest surge in bookings since it was introduced about a year and a half ago.
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Uber and Lyft appear to be pursuing a crowdsourced bus startup called Skedaddle, the latest indication that the ride-hailing companies want to build businesses that cover every mode of transit from last-mile solutions like scooters and bikes to inter-city travel in cars and high-capacity vehicles for longer distances.
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"When we were trying to hire charter buses, there were big questions about insurance and upfront payments," said Lauren North, an organizer of the march who is based in Louisville, Ky. "We were having a hard time moving all of these people to D.C." Ms. North had not heard of Skedaddle until someone mentioned the app during an organizing meeting.
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The Skedaddle Mountains are a mountain range in eastern Lassen County, California, near Nevada.
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Charley Skedaddle is an award-winning children's fiction book by Patricia Beatty. The book was first released in 1987 through Troll Associates, later winning the 1988 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Charley Skedaddle is based on true American Civil War records.
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Reception for Charley Skedaddle was positive, with the book receiving the 1988 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The book is utilized in many classrooms, with teachers using it to help inform about the American Civil War.
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A book of poetry by Richard Griffin, The Dead Rabbit Riot, A.D. 1857: And Other Poems, was published in 1915. Patricia Beatty's 1987 historical children's fiction novel Charlie Skedaddle mentions Dead Rabbits (the main character is a Bowery Boy).
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A book of poetry by Richard Griffin, The Dead Rabbit Riot, A.D. 1857: And Other Poems, was published in 1915. Patricia Beatty's 1987 historical children's fiction novel Charlie Skedaddle mentions Dead Rabbits (the main character is a Bowery Boy).
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Skidoo-wagon (as well as "skidoodle wagon" and "skedaddle wagon") was a short- lived euphemism for automobiles during 1904–1905. The word skidoo, used by itself as a noun denoting a supposed bringer of bad luck, is attested in the early 1910s, in P. G. Wodehouse's Psmith, Journalist.
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Knowlesville is close to Skedaddle Ridge, where a number of Skedaddlers, draft evaders from the American Civil War lived during the 1860s. It was named for Rev. Charles Knowles, a Free Will Baptist minister from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, who persuaded some local fishermen to take up farming in the area in 1861.
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Their famous race horses included Skedaddle, Survivor, Star Davis, Sauce Box, Squeeze 'em, and Victory. Victory (Vic), in 1873, was bought by General George Armstrong Custer who rode him at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. It is believed that Vic died in the battle. Following an illness, Clay died in 1887.
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Russians as "Germans", shooting in poor > or old women or cackling over the girl who skedaddle from them on all fours > - these paintings are not so easy to accept even for the most liberal and > unblinkered consciousness, but it makes the effort of every reader to open > "Diary" even more valuable. Elena Rybakova, the correspondent of "Moscow > News" .
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Skedaddle ( ) is a children's game show that aired in Fall 1988 for six weeks as a part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block of shows. It was hosted by guest star Ron Pearson, and created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The show was executive produced by Hanna and Barbera, along with Jay Wolpert for the autumn season being aired for eight months.
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Webster's New World Dictionary derives skiddoo (with two d's) as probably from skedaddle, meaning "to leave", with an imperative sense. The word, Skidoo, was the name of a Lark-class racing sailboat that competed in races on Long Island Sound during the 1901 racing season. The Skidoo competed every summer through at least 1904. Skidoo is attested, in its conventional, slang sense, by 1904.
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It also introduced to British audiences the American slang word "skedaddle". Allan Metcalf, OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp.173-175 The song's chorus goes: "Walking in the Zoo, walking in the Zoo / The O.K. thing on Sunday is walking in the Zoo"; and a verse contains the lines "My cousin bolted off without any more ado / And I skidaddled also looking very blue."Walking in the Zoo: lyrics, Monologues.co.uk.
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In the early 1860s it was called "Skedaddle Ridge" because of settlers from Maine who fled there to avoid draft into the American Civil War. Some of the settlers include the Leeman and MacKenney families, of which descendants are still living there. In its heyday, Pemberton Ridge probably had a population of 15–20 families comprising 75–100 residents. The community had a post office from 1872 to 1877 and thereafter relied on services in Forest City, as well as rural delivery.
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Minnehaha was driven by a stern-wheel, which was turned by twin steam engines removed from the steam scow Skedaddle, which had been built in 1862 on the Tualatin River. The size of the engines has been variously reported. An 1871 source states that each engine had an internal cylinder diameter, called a "bore" of and the distance traveled by the piston, called the "stroke" of . Minnehaha had a locomotive-type boiler 14 feet long, which was described as "nearly new" in September 1871.
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After Po defeated Temutai, Constable Hu told Po to skedaddle until Superintendent Chang invited Po to sit by him. Superintendent Chang tells Constable Hu that the banquet was boring until Po arrived. When Master Shifu hoped that Superintendent Chang would promote Constable Hu and reassign him, Superintendent Chang instead renews Constable Hu's position for another 10 years. In "Shifu's Back", Po and the others are left waiting for a very long time when it is decided that they need a licence to use their kung fu.
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During the last phase of the Second Anglo-Boer War in the former Orange Free State, the Afrikaner people of Winburg taunted the local British Army garrison with a parody of Bonnie Dundee, which was generally sung in English. The parody celebrated the guerrilla warfare of Boer Commandant Christiaan De Wet. : De Wet he is mounted, he rides up the street : The English skedaddle an A1 retreat! : And the commander swore: They've got through the net : That's been spread with such care for Christiaan De Wet.
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The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) was a battle during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Bragg Military Reservation. Involving about 4,500 men, it pitted mounted Confederate cavalry against dismounted Union cavalry. It was one of the last all-cavalry battles of the Civil War. The inconclusive fighting lasted for several hours early on the morning of March 10, 1865.
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Three primary branches, the North Branch Becaguimec, the South Branch Becaguimec and the Cold Stream compose the Becaguimec Stream. The Cold Stream originates from springs on the western slope of Skedaddle Ridge and the eastern slope of Garvie Mountain in the community of Knowlesville. The North Branch originates in three tiny lakes only a short distance west of the upper reaches of the Nashwaak River: Malcolm Lake, Long Lake and Owl Lake respectively. The South Branch flows from Becaguimec Lake 13 kilometres southeast of the community of Cloverdale.
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A small, intrepid mounted force could charge a much larger one, and with the terrorizing advantage of surprise, rout them. If attacked themselves, the guerrillas would sometimes ride away a brief distance and then round on their attackers and charge back into them, panicking and scattering them in the melee. Or they would simply "skedaddle", that is scatter to the four winds, and individually make their way back to the farms in Loudoun and Fauquier counties where they were welcomed, hidden, and succoured. Mosby would then send word telling chosen men when and where to assemble for the next raid.
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Polina called them "Germans" or "white" because how can she, born at the turn of the Soviet Union and growing up with the Soviet films, name enemies any different? Russians as "Germans", shooting in poor or old women or cackling over the girl who skedaddle from them on all fours – these paintings are not so easy to accept even for the most liberal and unblinkered consciousness, but it makes the effort of every reader to open "Diary" even more valuable. Elena Rybakova, the correspondent of "Moscow News" I read the diaries of Polina Zherebtsova in small portions, they simply cannot be read in bulk. And I am thinking about the following ... It was also very difficult for us to live in the mid-nineties.
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Any kind of opposition to the war -- such as that expressed by the Copperheads peace movement -- was considered sympathy to the enemy, and the order was immediately used as justification to arrest Ohio Representative Vallandigham, a prominent leader in the movement (in fact, he was arrested for criticizing the order itself) and to try him in a military court. Burnside’s order inspired a political campaign song that mentioned Clement Vallandigham: > O, brothers, don't forget the time > When Burnside was our fate, > And laws were superseded > By order 38. > Then like a free-born western man, > Our Val spoke bold and true, > O, when he’s chosen governor > What will poor Burnside do. > Wont he skedaddle, > As he’s well used to do.p.
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"It's fine like it is," > he'd snarl when I suggested another take or some additional harmonies. It > felt like his primary purpose was to get this thing done as quickly as > possible and skedaddle back to the dope man in New Hampshire. King recalled that "there were a few fights" during recording, including an incident in which he, irritable over having to get up early to work on repeated vocal takes while his bandmates slept in until the afternoon, launched into a tirade and threatened to quit the sessions. Among the songs the band recorded for the album were a cover version of the Beach Boys' 1963 single "Hawaii", and "High School Psychopath II", a sequel to Screeching Weasel's song "I Was a High School Psychopath" from their 1993 album Wiggle.
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