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I don/t respect HHH anymore.
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Monday, January 23, 2017 4:03 PM

Because he is the Gigalow of railroad managers. I loved him at CN/IC but he he came a gun for hire at Pershing Capital he lost my respect.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:23 AM

CandOforprogress2

Because he is the Gigalow of railroad managers. I loved him at CN/IC but he he came a gun for hire at Pershing Capital he lost my respect.

Think he'll miss you? Huh?

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Posted by LensCapOn on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:38 PM

So you don't respect him any more.

 

Do you respect him any less?

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Posted by RME on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:44 PM

He never seemed quite the same after he lost to Nixon.  And he's been dead for a long time. 

Or did you get the initials wrong?  Seems more likely.

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Posted by LensCapOn on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:50 PM

RME

He never seemed quite the same after he lost to Nixon.  And he's been dead for a long time. 

Or did you get the initials wrong?  Seems more likely.

 

Keybounce by OP is my guess.  (heh!)

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Posted by RME on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:57 PM

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Keybounce by OP is my guess. (heh!)

Yeah, I was talking to Ray. 

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Posted by samfp1943 on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 3:10 PM

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He never seemed quite the same after he lost to Nixon.  And he's been dead for a long time. 

Or did you get the initials wrong?  Seems more likely.

 

Sort of looks like an Alien Kidnapping....AlienAlienAlienAlien 

OH! Wait. Hubert Horatio Humphry...He was a Pharmacist, and later a Politician from Minnesota....Closest he ever got to railroads was playing with his Ives Trains under the Christmas tree...At least until 1926 when Lionel and Gilbert bought it at a 'firesale'  [$73,200.00].  Whistling

 

 


 

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Posted by NKP guy on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 3:38 PM

My thoughts exactly!

Why blame Vice President Humphrey for anything?  Frankly, I miss the decency he brought to public service.

When in doubt, I always blame Nixon...for everything.

 

Does anyone here remember "Only a gigalo"?   I believe "Gigalow" is a town or suburb in the Scottish Lowlands near the Firth of Fifth.

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Posted by wanswheel on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 5:03 PM

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 5:53 PM

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Sort of looks like an Alien Kidnapping....AlienAlienAlienAlien

OH! Wait. Hubert Horatio Humphry...He was a Pharmacist, and later a Politician from Minnesota....Closest he ever got to railroads was playing with his Ives Trains under the Christmas tree...At least until 1926 when Lionel and Gilbert bought it at a 'firesale'  [$73,200.00].Whistling  

Well, on a political note, my first toy train was an O-gauge set by Marx when I was maybe four or five.  (I didn't know Groucho was in the toy business.)

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 5:58 PM

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Well, on a political note, my first toy train was an O-gauge set by Marx when I was maybe four or five.

Same here, but it only came out to run around the Christmas tree.  Wish Dad hadn't traded/sold it...

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:19 PM

Hubert also lost the stadium named after hime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_H._Humphrey_Metrodome

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Posted by Firelock76 on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:54 PM

NKP guy

My thoughts exactly!

Why blame Vice President Humphrey for anything?  Frankly, I miss the decency he brought to public service.

When in doubt, I always blame Nixon...for everything.

 

Does anyone here remember "Only a gigalo"?   I believe "Gigalow" is a town or suburb in the Scottish Lowlands near the Firth of Fifth.

 

Sure!  The Bing Crosby song from 1931, "Just a Gigolo."

Kind of depressing, it gained a dubious distinction as a "suicide song," after it was found on record players belonging to folks who ended it all after going bust in the Great Depression.

You can find it with a You Tube search, "Bing Crosby 'Just a Gigolo.'"

But if you play it, do yourself a favor and stay away from open windows above the 6th floor, gas ovens, firearms, sleeping pills, you get the picture?

 

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Posted by edblysard on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:08 PM

CandOforprogress2

Because he is the Gigalow of railroad managers. I loved him at CN/IC but he he came a gun for hire at Pershing Capital he lost my respect.

 

Ya ever think of trying spell check?

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Posted by schlimm on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:30 PM

edblysard

 

 
CandOforprogress2

Because he is the Gigalow of railroad managers. I loved him at CN/IC but he he came a gun for hire at Pershing Capital he lost my respect.

 

 

 

Ya ever think of trying spell check?

 

 

Add a grammar and syntax checker.

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:15 PM

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Add a grammar and syntax checker.

Leave my mother's mother out of this.  And I'll be darned if I'm going to pay more money to the government...   Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:19 PM

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I believe "Gigalow" is a town or suburb in the Scottish Lowlands near the Firth of Fifth.

Not found in Google Maps, but Google returns 

Did you mean: Gigolo

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Posted by wanswheel on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 10:14 PM

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:10 PM

Did a certain Mr. or Miss Typo mean Bungalow (as with a control point) and EHH (E. Hunter Harrison) instead of HHH?

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Posted by samfp1943 on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:16 PM

NKP guy

My thoughts exactly!

Why blame Vice President Humphrey for anything?  Frankly, I miss the decency he brought to public service.

When in doubt, I always blame Nixon...for everything.

 

Does anyone here remember "Only a gigalo"?   I believe "Gigalow" is a town or suburb in the Scottish Lowlands near the Firth of Fifth.

 

  I was always partial to the Louis Prima version of the song...Not fond of David Lee Roths rendition... Whistling 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_824699&feature=iv&src_vid=CodmlmxpZeQ&v=F4q8_2q44CQ

As to the minor disfunction of the OP's titling....NKP guy may be on to something..A case of PWI [Posting while intoxicated?]  One might suspect that the contents of thay wee Fifth of Scotch might be to blame?  Mischief

 

 

 

 


 

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Posted by BOB WITHORN on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 7:32 AM

tree68

 

 
schlimm
Add a grammar and syntax checker.

 

Leave my mother's mother out of this.  And I'll be darned if I'm going to pay more money to the government...   Smile, Wink & Grin

 

Larry, I like your humor.  Probably over the head to a few.

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Posted by Firelock76 on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 5:08 PM

Electroliner 1935
 
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I believe "Gigalow" is a town or suburb in the Scottish Lowlands near the Firth of Fifth.

 

Not found in Google Maps, but Google returns 

Did you mean: Gigolo

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Hey, wait a minute, I didn't say that!

Besides, Glasgow's  a city in Scotland!  As Sir Harry Lauder once sang..

"I belong to Glasgow, dear old Glasgow town...

What's the matter with Glasgow as it's goin' round and round..."

A drinking song as you might guess, and Harry pronouced it "Glasga."

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Posted by NKP guy on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 7:34 PM

   I took the time to listen to the recordings ("Just a gigalo") here; in my opinion Bing Crosby just nailed it.  But then again, he just nailed "Buddy, can you spare a dime," too.  Too bad he recorded so much dreck in the second half of his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovndTa7hQDE

   As far as having fun with puns on "Gigalow," I'm reminded of how Lady Margot Astor replied to film star Jean Harlow, when she carelessly mispronounced Lady Astor's first name: "The t is silent, as in Harlow."  

 

 

 

 

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Posted by M636C on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:37 PM

Firelock76

 

 
Electroliner 1935
 
Firelock76
I believe "Gigalow" is a town or suburb in the Scottish Lowlands near the Firth of Fifth.

 

Not found in Google Maps, but Google returns 

Did you mean: Gigolo

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Hey, wait a minute, I didn't say that!

Besides, Glasgow's  a city in Scotland!  As Sir Harry Lauder once sang..

"I belong to Glasgow, dear old Glasgow town...

What's the matter with Glasgow as it's goin' round and round..."

A drinking song as you might guess, and Harry pronouced it "Glasga."

 
Firstly, I agree, you didn't say that....   The dangers of editing posts....
 
My grandfather emigrated from Aberdeen on the other side of Scotland.
 
Many years ago we would have family singalongs in which Scottish songs were sung. "I belong to Glasgow" was popular, among many other songs...
 
We tended to pronouce it more like "Glasgee" but my recollection of your second line was that it started:
 
"But somethin's the matter with Glasgow..."
 
but you shouldn't forget the later line:
 
"When I've had a couple of drinks on a Saturday, Glasgow belongs to me...."
 
In 1974 I visited Aberdeen and was amazed that virtually everyone sounded just like my family...  except for one maid in the hotel who said something completely unintelligible to me. Another maid saw what happened, explained the situation (one of the hotel's elevators was being used for moving laundry) and she said about the other maid "nobody can understand her, she's from Glasgow.."
 
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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:54 PM

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One might suspect that the contents of thay wee Fifth of Scotch might be to blame?Mischief

I think "wee" comes after the Fifth of Scotch.

Or "whee" as well.

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:01 PM

See what happens when I post late at night with a bottle of Laphroaig Scotch http://www.laphroaig.com/opinions/tour.aspx we end up in the Twighlight Zone-

 

 

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:18 PM

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Posted by Firelock76 on Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:54 PM

Thank you M636, and remember...

"If you can see it's a braw, bricht, moon-lit nicht than ye'r all richt, ye ken!"

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Posted by schlimm on Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:01 PM

Perhaps if the OP confined himeself to a fine single malt from Islay instead of the cheapest rot gut, his posts would be marginally more coherent?

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Posted by M636C on Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:02 PM

Firelock76

Thank you M636, and remember...

"If you can see it's a braw, bricht, moon-lit nicht than ye'r all richt, ye ken!"

 
My father used to say that... in an incredibly heavy Scots accent that he never used for anything else.
 
Billy Connolly has the Glasgow accent pretty much down pat (since he once worked in the shipyards). I recall one of his TV shows where he made a tour of Scotland. He read the terrible doggerel about the Tay Bridge while overlooking the bridge itself, and discussed putting leads on "bairns" (children) in the islands to the north to stop them being blown away...
 
Many years ago I worked with an engineer from Glasgow. I found I had to concentrate hard to understand him. I'm told that while replying to him, I reverted to a strong Aberdeen accent which I never noticed but everyone else did.
 
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