Humor inspired by FJ&G's "tricky terms" list

[brianel027]

Under Dave's posting on "Alumimum and die-cast differences" he had a serious listing of some tricky terms as relating to the post topic. Well, I couldn't resist the urge for a little humor on his little read post.

Maybe if he had titled it "Free Beer: Alumimum and die-cast differences" there might have been a little more action.

And being things are a little slow here - and sometimes on the serious side - I thought a little humor was inorder and worth repeating. Bear in mind folks, my own life has been less than a picnic this past year and it is my faith in God, my ability to appreciate what little I do have and my will to find a laugh in the smallest of things that has kept me going.

So take this in the light hearted way I intend it... why's there's even a jab at myself - being an 027 guy, I'm quite familiar with the 027 jabs...

Postwar Lionel = American made quality
Current Lionel = Chinese made quality
Quality = As long as it is profitable
Profitable = Full retail
Full retail = "You gotta be kidding! Are they outta their minds??"
"I just bought that new engine" = "It's now at a 50% blowout price!!"
Bachmann HO snap track = Lionel FasTrack
FasTrack = Super "O"
Lionel ®™ Corporation LLC = Union Pacfic Railroad ®™
Orange and blue ® = Yellow, red and gray ®
A sucker is born everyday = Greendale Train Set @ $600
027 = Bleech! Kid's trains... arrrgh!
Old Railking = Semi scale
New Railking = Full scale
TMCC = The Union Army
DCS = The Confederate Army
YORK = Gettysburg
Two yearly catalogs = Far too many trains being made
One yearly catalog = That company must be having serious money troubles
MARX tooling = Older K-Line 027 stuff
Older K-Line 027 stuff = New K-Line "S" scale
Early K-Line product = No respect from the scale crowd
Recent K-Line product = No respect from the toy train crowd
Happy customer = "Wow, it worked as it was suppose to right out of the box!"
Unhappy customer = "I returned the loco months ago and now you don't know where it is?"
Lawsuits = Appeals
Appeals = Happy lawyers
Happy lawyers = Happy travel agents booking overseas resort vacations
Victorious lawyers = "Hmmmm, this can't be too darn good for the rest of us!"
None of this makes any sense = "That's a great idea - why didn't I think of that?"
A good laugh = Finding humor in the sad but painful truth.

[FJ and G]

Brian,

Got some chuckles reading your list.

Extruded aluminum makes me think of beer or coke cans. There's a novelty store down the street that sells bi-planes made entirely of coke cans. The propellers spin with the slightest breeze and can be hung from the ceiling. Air conditioner makes props spin.

ALways thought it would look cool above a toy train layout like Spanky's.

Reg. Railking Scale, and other arbitrary "scale" labels, you need to be a lawyer to figure out what size trains you are getting.

This may not be too humorous to some but I'll give it a shot:

DCS=Apple computer (small following)
TMCC=PC computer (large following)
Conventional=Typewriter (largest following)

Lionel=I dig the name
MTH=I dig the guru
K-Line=I dig affordability
3rdRail=I dig limited availability

Fasttrack owner=see, I can even walk on it
Atlas track owner=get your cotten-pickin feet off my track
Lionel tubular owner=you can hear the train coming if you put your ear up to the holes in the rail.

[brianel027]

Those gave me a laugh too Dave! Very good.

Sometimes we take ourselves so seriously with our trains... I know, I have too.

So it's good to have a lighthearted laugh, even if there isn't any free beer!

[Anonymous]

new marx= they are american!?

free beer= happy forumers

diecast= automatic price hightener

[dougdagrump]

Dave, If the planes are made of coke or beer cans you would need the appropriate rolling stock for whichever plane is over the layout at any given time.
If you run a lot of the milk cars you HAVE to get one of those battery powered flying cows. [(-D]

[FJ and G]

To make them fly a bit fast, like greased lightning, you'd also need to grease da cows.

[spankybird]

This is part of next weeks Sunday Photo Fun



BTW I thought of this before this topic was started.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Lionel=I dig the name
MTH=I dig the guru
K-Line=I dig affordability
3rdRail=I dig limited availability

Williams=I dig reliving the postwar days of my youth

DCS=No one's trains but Mikes will work
TMCC=Works with DCS
Williams=We doan need no steenking computers in our trains

Tony

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vitabile

DCS=No one's trains but Mikes will work
TMCC=Works with DCS
Williams=We doan need no steenking computers in our trains

Tony

Ain't that the truth!!!

Congrats in advance on the 3 stars. Actually I thought you would have gone over the top already today. You and Bob Nelson (Lionelsoni) were neck and neck last time I looked. [;)] He made it a little while ago.

I'm back!

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