winter doldrums

[Rastun]

What happens if I get offended by that last lawn jockey? 

TJ you're not allowed to be offended.

[vsmith]

What happens if I get offended by that last lawn jockey? 

 

That you lost a wad of cash at the racetrack last weekend?

[Anonymous]

I also subscribe to a list on speeders/put-puts, but the Cabin fever material usually starts just after Christmas. Heres GR talking about the pillage of Gnomes!

Heres some info on Neville Bonner.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/obits/bonner/bonner_bio.htm

The term "Neville" for garden ornaments in the appearance of an indigenous warrior was made very popular by an Australian Sit-com that was very politically incorrect "Kingswood Country".

The show centred around a racist (in todays values anyway) bloke, Ted Bullpitt (yep, there are lots of ways that can be spun into a line) who drove a Kingswood (built by GM's (subsidised by my governments) Australian Brand, Holden). He had such a statue in his garden!

all sorts of terrible things happened to Neville!

heres a link for more on Kingswood country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingswood_Country

As for the earlier comments re crime in australia - its a bit like watching American Sitcoms - the telly here shows all the death and gore holliwood can produce, and the news shows all the murders etc etc so one could believe if you don't get mugged murdered and or raped when stateside, you ain't been. yet I managed a month in North America, drove the freeways of LA, and did not get mugged, raped or murdered or even experience road rage. Rather, I met some great people!

reminds me of the old statistics/lies quote - same can be said for the media!

[Tom The Brat]

As for the earlier comments re crime in australia - its a bit like watching American Sitcoms - the telly here shows all the death and gore holliwood can produce, and the news shows all the murders etc etc so one could believe if you don't get mugged murdered and or raped when stateside, you ain't been. yet I managed a month in North America, drove the freeways of LA, and did not get mugged, raped or murdered or even experience road rage. Rather, I met some great people!

Sorry, we'll try harder next time

[Anonymous]

I don't agree with Nic on much but i have had the same experience he had in North America. I have been there 4 or 5 times, once for 3 months and i have visited 20 cities in 12 states and i didn't even see a crime or even hear of one. Even the supposedly arraogeant darker type americans in Nan Francisco were pretty pleasant to me.

Rgds Ian 

[GP-9_Man11786]

Well here's my list of winter projects:

1. Finish my New York City R-26 Subway car.
2. Start building a Metro-North steeple-cab electric locomotive
3. Give my locomotives a tune-up (wheel cleaning, lubrication, cleaning, etc).
4. Find a job in South Florida, where winter exists in memory only.

[markn]

The clock changing always reminds me of the "politically incorrect"quip by someone like Churchill or Will Rogers that Daylight saving time was like the old Indian chief that wanted a longer blanket, so he cut a foot off the top and sewed it on the bottom..I guess we could get up an hour earlier...naw! It's dark by 5:30, the leaves are falling faster than I can rake them off the tracks, but the weather is perfect here in Virginia- it's always something.  The really bad part about all this is the political ads this time of year but if I understand them, they say if we vote out the damn Reporkicans and vote in the damn Demoncats, they will fix everything including this winter doldrum problem and pay me a subsidy to not rake my leaves-or did I get that wrong?

[tangerine-jack]

The clock changing always reminds me of the "politically incorrect"quip by someone like Churchill or Will Rogers that Daylight saving time was like the old Indian chief that wanted a longer blanket, so he cut a foot off the top and sewed it on the bottom..I guess we could get up an hour earlier...naw! It's dark by 5:30, the leaves are falling faster than I can rake them off the tracks, but the weather is perfect here in Virginia- it's always something.  The really bad part about all this is the political ads this time of year but if I understand them, they say if we vote out the damn Reporkicans and vote in the damn Demoncats, they will fix everything including this winter doldrum problem and pay me a subsidy to not rake my leaves-or did I get that wrong?

 

No, you got it right.  But remember Kerry voted for winter before he voted against it.

[Anonymous]

I'm with Mark.  I can barely keep up with the leaves.  I don't blow 'em---they just keep coming back. I use the shop-vac.  Four times I've sucked 'em up so  far.  The trees are all bare, and yet more leaves keep appearing as if by magic.  This is my first year in garden railroading.  I've got the railroading part down pretty good.  The garden part I'm not too sure about yet. 

[Anonymous]

By rights we should not have this leaf problem here in Australia as all our native trees are evergreens, mainly eucalypts no less.

Interesting enough we have about 2500 tropical islands here in Queensland and mostly uninhabited and none of them have palm trees except that have been planted there.

Rgds Ian