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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:10 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

QUOTE: Originally posted by piouslion

Carefull tree, your navy is showing

8 years USAF, which includes 4 months sea time; Shellback.


Ahhh, the Chair Force, we scrounged some of our best food from you guys...

Who said the only Sgt Bilko was in the Army...we had a CPO who could run rings around Bilko...lol

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, July 16, 2004 9:56 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by piouslion

Carefull tree, your navy is showing

8 years USAF, which includes 4 months sea time; Shellback.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 9:43 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by bnsfkline

Wood? NO! Plasitc? NO! It was made from CONCRETE! lol


Amazing what a little torque applied to a topic will do, isn't it??

LOL...

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Posted by bnsfkline on Friday, July 16, 2004 9:31 PM
Wood? NO! Plasitc? NO! It was made from CONCRETE! lol
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 5:21 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

Then again, I have see a lot of those "carports", which are nothing more than a metal frame with a vinyl cover. I can see someone calling it a garage.

If it wasn't properly secured (or slipped its moorings), one of those would travel quite well in a stiff wind.[:P]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 2:28 PM
Oh, and I wasn't aware that garages were gender sensitive...

Do ladies garages have pink curtains and scented towels for help in checking the oil?

If so, please don't tell my wife as she'll have the decorator working on our garage at once...lol...

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 2:26 PM
Is it Mokie or Moxie???

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, July 16, 2004 10:45 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

The radio only said a ladies' garage - as opposed to a gentleman's garage. Since it was out in the central part of the state, where they still know how to live the quiet life - methinks it was probably a wooden garage. Not a carport or appendage to the house, nor a shed, where we would store the tractor or garden tools...

Does that help anyone but LC, who is incorrigable right along with Dan - who is now missing, too. And Kevin!


Uhhh, not to be a stickler, but if you're gonna call me names at least spell them correctly,

It's "incorrigible"...lol....

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 9:01 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

The radio only said a ladies' garage - as opposed to a gentleman's garage. Since it was out in the central part of the state, where they still know how to live the quiet life - methinks it was probably a wooden garage. Not a carport or appendage to the house, nor a shed, where we would store the tractor or garden tools...

Does that help anyone but LC, who is incorrigable right along with Dan - who is now missing, too. And Kevin!


Uhhh, not to be a stickler, but if you're gonna call me names at least spell them correctly,

It's "incorrigible"...lol....

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, July 16, 2004 7:02 AM
Then again, I have see a lot of those "carports", which are nothing more than a metal frame with a vinyl cover. I can see someone calling it a garage.

If it wasn't properly secured (or slipped its moorings), one of those would travel quite well in a stiff wind.[:P]

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, July 16, 2004 6:10 AM
The radio only said a ladies' garage - as opposed to a gentleman's garage. Since it was out in the central part of the state, where they still know how to live the quiet life - methinks it was probably a wooden garage. Not a carport or appendage to the house, nor a shed, where we would store the tractor or garden tools...

Does that help anyone but LC, who is incorrigable right along with Dan - who is now missing, too. And Kevin!

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Posted by Puckdropper on Friday, July 16, 2004 1:17 AM
I've seen several plastic sheds. Here, in my mind, a garage is big enough to hold a car, a shed is not.
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:46 PM
Garage shed what the hell is the difference? Here in Missouri those words are interchangable. j/k [:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:21 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

How many plastic sheds have you seen lately, it may have been WOODEN though.


Who said anything about a shed...LOL!

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Posted by UPTRAIN on Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:19 PM
How many plastic sheds have you seen lately, it may have been WOODEN though.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:12 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

If it was metal, it may have messed the signals up.


But, what if it was plastic???

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Posted by UPTRAIN on Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:52 PM
If it was metal, it may have messed the signals up.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:37 PM
Such expression's as these are truly worth reading, no one would believe them if they weren't written down and thats true in North Carolina as well as Kansas [bow][bow][(-D][(-D][swg]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:21 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching......[}:)]


"Damn ToTo we're back in Kansas!!"

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Munchkins & Flying Monkey Alert: Sure that garage doesn't belong to the Wicked Witch of the North?[(-D][(-D][(-D]


LOL, Hey MC, the wicked witches are east and west. Glenda was the good witch of the north I think...

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Glenda was a Cornhusker?[%-)][%-)][%-)]


Geez MC I guess so, I always though she was a porn star[;)]

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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:05 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching......[}:)]


Z-

I've said it before and I'll say it again...you are an evil genius...FOFLMAO...

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, July 15, 2004 5:56 AM
You guys are too much.

[:o)]

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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:46 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

Signal circuits require a direct short between the rails. A wooden garage isn't going to provide that. Even a steel building would be questionable - witness comments in other threads about hi-rail vehicles not tripping the circuits.

Assuming no casualties, though, the comments in the cab of a train approaching said garage would be worth recording...

<Say, CSX, did the DS say anything about putting this train in the garage?>
<Why, no LC, he didn't. Probably ought to stop then...>
<This'll be a good tale down a the diner!>



Did anybody think to check the batteries in the garage door opener[?][:)]

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Posted by Trainnut484 on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:37 PM
Gee...go out to the car dealership to bring home a new car for a 24 hour test drive and bring home a train instead LOL.

Will have to use more than a tennis ball hanging on a string to judge parking from the wall LOL

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:28 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching......[}:)]


"Damn ToTo we're back in Kansas!!"

LC


Munchkins & Flying Monkey Alert: Sure that garage doesn't belong to the Wicked Witch of the North?[(-D][(-D][(-D]


LOL, Hey MC, the wicked witches are east and west. Glenda was the good witch of the north I think...

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching......[}:)]


Z-

I've said it before and I'll say it again...you are an evil genius...FOFLMAO...

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:03 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching......[}:)]


"Damn ToTo we're back in Kansas!!"

LC


Munchkins & Flying Monkey Alert: Sure that garage doesn't belong to the Wicked Witch of the North?[(-D][(-D][(-D]


LOL, Hey MC, the wicked witches are east and west. Glenda was the good witch of the north I think...

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:01 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

Signal circuits require a direct short between the rails. A wooden garage isn't going to provide that. Even a steel building would be questionable - witness comments in other threads about hi-rail vehicles not tripping the circuits.

Assuming no casualties, though, the comments in the cab of a train approaching said garage would be worth recording...

<Say, CSX, did the DS say anything about putting this train in the garage?>
<Why, no LC, he didn't. Probably ought to stop then...>
<This'll be a good tale down a the diner!>



Since you brought me into this...

I used to know an old head Conductor, now long retired, who was known as the guy responsible for bringing down the last old steel overhead bridge on a certain section of the former Erie in NJ. Apparently one night while heading out with a stack train of double stacks someone forgot to mention that this train was over height for this particular section that was being used as a detour for some bridge work. The overhead bridge was dislocated from its abuttments by the train and...

Early the next morning an NJT commuter train was passing thru when it came around a curve and immediately went into emergency. The crew got on the radio with the obligatory "Emergency, Emergency, Emergency" and when the DS came on and asked why, the Engineer responded, "We're in emergency due to a bridge problem at milepost 71." The DS retorted "there is no bridge at MP71". To which the excited and frustrated Engineer responded, "THERE IS NOW!"

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:59 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching......[}:)]


"Damn ToTo we're back in Kansas!!"

LC


Munchkins & Flying Monkey Alert: Sure that garage doesn't belong to the Wicked Witch of the North?[(-D][(-D][(-D]
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:53 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I would wait until we were just about to hit, then yell to wake up the conductor. Imagine his first thoughts upon awakening and seeing a house approaching......[}:)]


"Damn ToTo we're back in Kansas!!"

LC

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