Some basic Info.

[Bergie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

Bergie:

Please put new "AAA" batteries in your magic wand and restore Ms. Mookie's rank back to 4 Green Stars!

MC (aka-Dazed & Confused)

Please understand that nothing was taken from the Mookster. Her ranking moved from three green stars to four gold stars based on her number of posts. She has more stars, they're just a different color.

[Bergie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

Bergie:

Please put new "AAA" batteries in your magic wand and restore Ms. Mookie's rank back to 4 Green Stars!

MC (aka-Dazed & Confused)

Please understand that nothing was taken from the Mookster. Her ranking moved from three green stars to four gold stars based on her number of posts. She has more stars, they're just a different color.

[mudchicken]

Bergie:

Please put new "AAA" batteries in your magic wand and restore Ms. Mookie's rank back to 4 Green Stars!

MC (aka-Dazed & Confused)


ps...You do have the corporate granted, electronically administered, abilities to change those stars into hairballs in the unlikely event Ms. Mookie "goes furry" on us - Yes?

[mudchicken]

Bergie:

Please put new "AAA" batteries in your magic wand and restore Ms. Mookie's rank back to 4 Green Stars!

MC (aka-Dazed & Confused)


ps...You do have the corporate granted, electronically administered, abilities to change those stars into hairballs in the unlikely event Ms. Mookie "goes furry" on us - Yes?

[Bergie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie
If the Trains Magazine people want to discipline me for my thoughts, then they can and probably will do so by e-mail.

Don't worry Mookie, I don't think anyone here is going to discipline you for having some fun. Life's too short to be serious all the time... especially in a forum that most users are participating in during their leasure time. Ask anyone on the Trains staff, there's no bigger clown or persuer of fun than me. [:o)] Now that doesn't mean I'll have to curb inappropriate behavior in this forum if I need to, but it would take a hell of a lot more than what you've done to get me to drop the mouse on you, Mookie. [;)]

I hate the personal attacks that unfortunately go hand in hand in most forums. Nobody knows all. We can all learn from one another. And everyone makes mistakes. This typically isn't a life and death topic, people. Let's all try to get along. [:)]

Erik

[Bergie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie
If the Trains Magazine people want to discipline me for my thoughts, then they can and probably will do so by e-mail.

Don't worry Mookie, I don't think anyone here is going to discipline you for having some fun. Life's too short to be serious all the time... especially in a forum that most users are participating in during their leasure time. Ask anyone on the Trains staff, there's no bigger clown or persuer of fun than me. [:o)] Now that doesn't mean I'll have to curb inappropriate behavior in this forum if I need to, but it would take a hell of a lot more than what you've done to get me to drop the mouse on you, Mookie. [;)]

I hate the personal attacks that unfortunately go hand in hand in most forums. Nobody knows all. We can all learn from one another. And everyone makes mistakes. This typically isn't a life and death topic, people. Let's all try to get along. [:)]

Erik

[dharmon]

I'd say that was an "e-slap"

Mr. Radre,

If you are limiting it to US trains, the big four railroads seem to have eliminated alot of the local flavor items in the name of standardization. I have seen some interesting items at some the military bases over the years.....up at the shipyard in Bremerton. WA, there is an interesting collection of antinque switchers (40/70 ton types) moving what used to be ships around on heavy duty flats and gons. At the shipyard in Newport News, the same,but stuff that is getting ready to be ships.
If your interests are elsewhere, the Mexican roads have some neat stuff, second hand ALCOs and such, that have been through many iterations and local modification. I would also direct you overseas. The Egyptian railway is like the old west, with folks and animals riding in open or on the tops of cars. I unfortunately have no pictures or links to offer, but I'm sure someone does. Or take a break from railroads like I did, not necesarliy by choice, but stuff changes and you get to relearn it over again.

[dharmon]

I'd say that was an "e-slap"

Mr. Radre,

If you are limiting it to US trains, the big four railroads seem to have eliminated alot of the local flavor items in the name of standardization. I have seen some interesting items at some the military bases over the years.....up at the shipyard in Bremerton. WA, there is an interesting collection of antinque switchers (40/70 ton types) moving what used to be ships around on heavy duty flats and gons. At the shipyard in Newport News, the same,but stuff that is getting ready to be ships.
If your interests are elsewhere, the Mexican roads have some neat stuff, second hand ALCOs and such, that have been through many iterations and local modification. I would also direct you overseas. The Egyptian railway is like the old west, with folks and animals riding in open or on the tops of cars. I unfortunately have no pictures or links to offer, but I'm sure someone does. Or take a break from railroads like I did, not necesarliy by choice, but stuff changes and you get to relearn it over again.

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

Well, since I am the Mookie Stuff you are referring to, I guess I should respond. Since we are having to be very serious - I seriously asked you a question on one of your posts. You have seriously ignored me.

I am learning as I go with the railroad questions. I spend a good part of my free time trying to think of pertinent questions to ask, since I am an inquisitive person. I try to make my posts serious and not make a lot of frivilous comments. More than once I have made the decision not to make a comment, since I don't want this forum to degenerate into a comedy central situation. But after a thread has been around for so long or generated so many replies, how many times can you rehash a subject. I reply to some people that have yanked my chain before and we have some good-natured fun back and forth. Others, I try to be very serious and maybe even a little helpful.

I don't ask you to like me, my posts or my sense of humor. Don't read the parts marked Mookie. But by the same token, don't try to stifle the rest of the forum just because we don't fit your image of how we should reply.

If the Trains Magazine people want to discipline me for my thoughts, then they can and probably will do so by e-mail. If you want to do it in an open forum, that is your right. But it is also my right to think you are being a little narrow-minded and for that I do feel sorry for you. Now, go back and answer my question and I will reply with a thank you and no humor involved.

Jen

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

Well, since I am the Mookie Stuff you are referring to, I guess I should respond. Since we are having to be very serious - I seriously asked you a question on one of your posts. You have seriously ignored me.

I am learning as I go with the railroad questions. I spend a good part of my free time trying to think of pertinent questions to ask, since I am an inquisitive person. I try to make my posts serious and not make a lot of frivilous comments. More than once I have made the decision not to make a comment, since I don't want this forum to degenerate into a comedy central situation. But after a thread has been around for so long or generated so many replies, how many times can you rehash a subject. I reply to some people that have yanked my chain before and we have some good-natured fun back and forth. Others, I try to be very serious and maybe even a little helpful.

I don't ask you to like me, my posts or my sense of humor. Don't read the parts marked Mookie. But by the same token, don't try to stifle the rest of the forum just because we don't fit your image of how we should reply.

If the Trains Magazine people want to discipline me for my thoughts, then they can and probably will do so by e-mail. If you want to do it in an open forum, that is your right. But it is also my right to think you are being a little narrow-minded and for that I do feel sorry for you. Now, go back and answer my question and I will reply with a thank you and no humor involved.

Jen

[Mookie]

You know - you aren't the first one to tell me I am different. Hmm. Wonder if it is true!

Is there chocolate cake in the time out? Does this mean no 4 greens and tiara?

Gonna go to the STB, the UTU and the MGB (Mookie Grievence Board)

Sulking Mookie

Wow - I posted this for Eric before I found out there is someone in the world that doesn't like me!

So being the shy and retiring person that I am - I will go back and address this person one on one.

Mookie

[Mookie]

You know - you aren't the first one to tell me I am different. Hmm. Wonder if it is true!

Is there chocolate cake in the time out? Does this mean no 4 greens and tiara?

Gonna go to the STB, the UTU and the MGB (Mookie Grievence Board)

Sulking Mookie

Wow - I posted this for Eric before I found out there is someone in the world that doesn't like me!

So being the shy and retiring person that I am - I will go back and address this person one on one.

Mookie

[Anonymous]

Not only do we have fun we also learn a ton of stuff about trains. If you want to ask questions please do, there are good people here who will answer then for you.But please lighten up. We don't want or need another "Missouri" type in the forums. That "person" did a lot of harm in the forums and turned people "OFF" Please don't follow in his footsteps.

It isn't often you see the Unihead letting off steam, but it is most definately allowed as he is also human. [;)]

You are really LUCKY Kevin isn't around now. HE WOULD EAT YOUR LUNCH.
Then he might eat YOU.

Nuff said. Be cool, not mean. [;)]

Now sit back and laugh with us and at us and have a good time. We do, you can too.

[Anonymous]

Not only do we have fun we also learn a ton of stuff about trains. If you want to ask questions please do, there are good people here who will answer then for you.But please lighten up. We don't want or need another "Missouri" type in the forums. That "person" did a lot of harm in the forums and turned people "OFF" Please don't follow in his footsteps.

It isn't often you see the Unihead letting off steam, but it is most definately allowed as he is also human. [;)]

You are really LUCKY Kevin isn't around now. HE WOULD EAT YOUR LUNCH.
Then he might eat YOU.

Nuff said. Be cool, not mean. [;)]

Now sit back and laugh with us and at us and have a good time. We do, you can too.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

I'm sorry sir, maybe this is not what you expected, but if only you had a little sense of humor... we can't be serious all the time- we're humans....
Mookie (and other people) seems like a nice person, and i've only been on these forums since August 1. (But i would be glad with four stars, color don't matter to me).
i'm not trying to be mean or anything, don't get me wrong.
But when you get your own ring of people, talk with them all you want bout everything you want. This is America, after all.
I've learned tons of stuff about train (and not only about trains) here.
On the other note: ARR has 8 GP49 's they say they are the only ones it the country. True[?]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

I'm sorry sir, maybe this is not what you expected, but if only you had a little sense of humor... we can't be serious all the time- we're humans....
Mookie (and other people) seems like a nice person, and i've only been on these forums since August 1. (But i would be glad with four stars, color don't matter to me).
i'm not trying to be mean or anything, don't get me wrong.
But when you get your own ring of people, talk with them all you want bout everything you want. This is America, after all.
I've learned tons of stuff about train (and not only about trains) here.
On the other note: ARR has 8 GP49 's they say they are the only ones it the country. True[?]

[edblysard]

He said WHAT about Mrs mookie and "her little ring of friends?"

Buddy, its real, real simple, but I will go slow so you can catch it the first time around.

If you do not like whats written here,
DONT READ IT.

There are plent of other forums needing a serious railroad kinda guy like you.
Why dont you try them on for size?

Ed, (one of the ringleaders)

[edblysard]

He said WHAT about Mrs mookie and "her little ring of friends?"

Buddy, its real, real simple, but I will go slow so you can catch it the first time around.

If you do not like whats written here,
DONT READ IT.

There are plent of other forums needing a serious railroad kinda guy like you.
Why dont you try them on for size?

Ed, (one of the ringleaders)

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

Sil, babe! Lighten up. If you want to start a serious thread, by all means do so. And if Mook & pals want to launch it into another direction, they will. If you will note, several of the Trains head hanchos were also a little less than serious here. There are some pretty serious threads going...check out the UTU topic. Not much foolin' going on there. It really isn't healthy to be cast-iron serious all the time. Try to find some humor where you can. Otherwise, you'll be pegged as an "angry young man", and nobody will like you. [or answer your NS branch questions!] BTW, if you start bad-mouthing Mook, you will be getting plenty of serious posts headed your way!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

Sil, babe! Lighten up. If you want to start a serious thread, by all means do so. And if Mook & pals want to launch it into another direction, they will. If you will note, several of the Trains head hanchos were also a little less than serious here. There are some pretty serious threads going...check out the UTU topic. Not much foolin' going on there. It really isn't healthy to be cast-iron serious all the time. Try to find some humor where you can. Otherwise, you'll be pegged as an "angry young man", and nobody will like you. [or answer your NS branch questions!] BTW, if you start bad-mouthing Mook, you will be getting plenty of serious posts headed your way!

[mudchicken]

Mr. Silvio:

If we can't have some clean fun with it, than why bother? Does that mean I have to take back my answer about NS branchlines back there in the PA molehills? Sheesh!

-mudchicken
Roving Fowl Ball & fellow Chocolate Cake Taste Taster fan,
Denver Home For the Bewildered & Hopelessly Confused

[mudchicken]

Mr. Silvio:

If we can't have some clean fun with it, than why bother? Does that mean I have to take back my answer about NS branchlines back there in the PA molehills? Sheesh!

-mudchicken
Roving Fowl Ball & fellow Chocolate Cake Taste Taster fan,
Denver Home For the Bewildered & Hopelessly Confused

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

Mr Silvio
getting off topic guilty as charged.However Look at all the railroad questions that Mookie has started.Yellow thingies,hissing noises,whistles,bells etc.To quote shakesphere "wouldn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet?wouldn't a mookie with how ever many colored stars be just as curiuos?
respectfully mookies little BIG brother and adopted nephew [:)]
stay safe
joe and matt

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Silvio510

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.

Mr Silvio
getting off topic guilty as charged.However Look at all the railroad questions that Mookie has started.Yellow thingies,hissing noises,whistles,bells etc.To quote shakesphere "wouldn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet?wouldn't a mookie with how ever many colored stars be just as curiuos?
respectfully mookies little BIG brother and adopted nephew [:)]
stay safe
joe and matt

[dharmon]

Mr Silvio510,

I humbly apologize to you and all the members for my interjection of what I thought was a very small bit of humor. It was an inappropriate interjection and not in keeping with the serious nature of this forum. I will in the future, keep all my posts professional and try to seek my entertainment elsewhere.
My legal advisor has entered the admonishment into my service record and it shall be used against me in any further action.

[dharmon]

Mr Silvio510,

I humbly apologize to you and all the members for my interjection of what I thought was a very small bit of humor. It was an inappropriate interjection and not in keeping with the serious nature of this forum. I will in the future, keep all my posts professional and try to seek my entertainment elsewhere.
My legal advisor has entered the admonishment into my service record and it shall be used against me in any further action.

[Anonymous]

Old Sully would have been proud. He taught me to aggitate like that...quietly walk away grinning while the room is erupting behind you. [This post should be inserted ahead of Sil's rant above. Of course that's the risk of aggitating...the humorless grumps start yelping!]

[Anonymous]

Old Sully would have been proud. He taught me to aggitate like that...quietly walk away grinning while the room is erupting behind you. [This post should be inserted ahead of Sil's rant above. Of course that's the risk of aggitating...the humorless grumps start yelping!]

[Anonymous]

Seriously we are talking about something here, started with a railfan about trains, and this mook stuff is not even in the least bit amusing, get on AOL and instant message if you are just gonna waste time between your little ring of people. I mean no offense but you might as well just forget about people trying to get serious on these forums with all this mookie B.S.