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What Happened Here??
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 28, 2003 7:52 PM
Geez, I get out and keep workin' and this place sure got boring...

What's going on out there???

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Posted by Puckdropper on Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:34 PM
Aparently, a lot. The weekend's here, and almost everyone leaves campus. I haven't made a post in a few days, and am just 9 from 100...

Maybe Mookie took the weekend off...
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:03 PM
I have to agree with that. But right now there nothing interesting to me here, so i don't post a lot. We need to come up with a good topic- i was thinking about something with humor.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:13 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Alaskaman

I have to agree with that. But right now there nothing interesting to me here, so i don't post a lot. We need to come up with a good topic- i was thinking about something with humor.


Humor, go read a JIM STORY. [:D]

LC bring back HOBO JO [}:)] [:p] [;)] Where is she? What ever happened to your idea about "feathers", or did you forget?
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Posted by Puckdropper on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:18 AM
I looked back, and there were no posts of interest... They either were talked out, or the question was answered.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:30 AM
So, OK, lets start something new. Sorry, but I don't have any more shots of my girl that aren't showing more fle***han Bergie will allow, so that won't work...

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Posted by Puckdropper on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:31 AM
You ought to get a picture of a locomotive without its shell... and maybe tease Bergie about it showing all...
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:39 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Puckdropper

You ought to get a picture of a locomotive without its shell... and maybe tease Bergie about it showing all...


Puckdropper

Now thats funny. lol lol lol
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Posted by Mookie on Monday, September 29, 2003 6:33 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Puckdropper

Aparently, a lot. The weekend's here, and almost everyone leaves campus. I haven't made a post in a few days, and am just 9 from 100...

Maybe Mookie took the weekend off...
Mookie is forced to take every weekend off. And she hates it with a passion, but is too cheap and too tired to get the forums at home. So everyone on the forum gets a two day break. And wait until December. They close campus for almost 2 weeks. Gah!

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Posted by Puckdropper on Monday, September 29, 2003 11:31 AM
You're gonna have to spring for a month of I'net access! I'm online all the time, and cannot stand not having it. The last few times we moved, the ISPs (internet service providers) got a bunch of questions asked to them. Usually about reliability and costs. We went with a slightly more expensive ISP, and have had no trouble.

Before we got the I'net, I used to watch a lot of TV. Now I hardly watch it (in the offseason GO CUBS) at all.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:13 PM
Puckdropper [8D]

About the only thing my tv is used for is watching rr vids. [:)]
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Posted by dharmon on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:48 PM
What do you mean.......It's time for a new round of fall TV reality series....

Who Wants to Marry an RR Engineer?

Survivor: Donner Pass ( airs on the Food Network)

and my personal favorite:

Amazing Videos of Stupid Things People Do at RR Crossings (or riding lawnmowers).

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:53 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

What do you mean.......It's time for a new round of fall TV reality series....

Survivor: Donner Pass ( airs on the Food Network)



Daniel [:)]

Now that is in bad taste. [}:)] [:p] HHaaaaaaaaa I kill me [:o)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 12:56 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

What do you mean.......It's time for a new round of fall TV reality series....

Survivor: Donner Pass ( airs on the Food Network)



Daniel [:)]

Now that is in bad taste. [}:)] [:p] HHaaaaaaaaa I kill me [:o)]


Daniel [:D]


I have a bone to pick with you. [}:)] [:p] HHaaaaaaaa I kill me (again)
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Posted by ironhorseman on Monday, September 29, 2003 1:20 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Alaskaman

I have to agree with that. But right now there nothing interesting to me here, so i don't post a lot. We need to come up with a good topic- i was thinking about something with humor.


so u want humor, eh? here's something i did a while back and never got around to emailing or posting, i hope u all like it, if not, oh well, maybe it'll stir up some controversy

Top 25 signs you’re a train nut (in no particular order other than which I thought of them)

1. You’ve purposely moved to a house closest to the railroad tracks.
2. You’ve never complained about the noise of the switching or horn blasts
3. Your train videos out number your movies
4. You have more home movies of trains than of your family
5. All your computer wallpaper, screen savers, and sound effects are train related
6. All your MP3s are train songs
7. If you haven’t already framed all the pictures from your train calendars you still hang them on the wall even though they’re several years old
8. One of the stops on your garden railway picks up the daily mail and newspaper
9. You have a garden railroad
10. Your doorbell is a soundbite of Ralph Wiggum (from the Simpsons) saying: “choo choo choo choo woo woo!”
11. You replaced your car horn for a real train air horn
12. You don’t speed down the highway, you highball it
13. You think your car runs on steam and you make absolutely sure your truck is a diesel
14. You refer to your driveway as the “yard”, the garage as the “shops”
15. Youthink of your trailer or fifth wheel like pulling a passenger car
16. You don’t live in a house, you live in a depot
17. You own a caboose
18. You always travel by train
19. When you travel by train you don’t understand what everyone else is complaining about
20. AMTRAK=FUN!
21. Your email address is the name of a railroad, the name of a train, or the name of famous trainman.
22. Most of your vacation pictures have more trains than family or friends or the feature attraction
23. The trains ARE the reason you went on vacation
24. You have more issues of Trains Magazine than most collectors have comic books
25. You’ve nicknamed yourself the Iron Horse Man* (that's me)
* I still think this name suits me better than that website (www.ironhorseman.com), which I have no affiliation with, but it's all good.

Created by the Iron Horse Man, 14 July 2002

posted publically for the first time 29 September 2003

add to it, make fun of it, argue about, whatever

enjoy [:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 1:28 PM
WHY does a clothing seller use ironhorseman for their name--they have nothing to do with trains? That doesn't make any sense to me at all. They sell cowboy stuff (no offense intended) not train stuff.
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Posted by ironhorseman on Monday, September 29, 2003 2:05 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

WHY does a clothing seller use ironhorseman for their name--they have nothing to do with trains? That doesn't make any sense to me at all. They sell cowboy stuff (no offense intended) not train stuff.


Uh, your guess is as good as mine. I chose my screen name as in Iron Horse=old steam engines. As for their version? Horse= because cowboys ride horses. Iron=??? because all the metal used in the cowboy era was made of iron??? (eg horseshoes, branding irons, spurs maybe, saddle stirrups, cooking supplies, etc.) I don't know, think ruggedness, I guess. If you look really really close at those pictures those shirts are just T-shirts with printed designs, not real buttons, chains, vests, etc.[V] It looks like a costume.

I'd like to have that Url when they're done with.[8D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 7:11 PM
You know your a train nut, when your wife will not let you drive because you always pick a route that follows train tracks in the hopes of catching a train.
You know your a train nut, when you come to a rail crossing you STOP, LOOK and LISTEN with out being told, in the hope of getting caught by a train.
You know your a train nut, when your wife hides the latest TRAINS magazine and will not give it back till you get all your chores done around the house.
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Posted by Puckdropper on Monday, September 29, 2003 7:20 PM
...If you have 4 stars on the Train forum...and just started going there a few months ago.
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Posted by adrianspeeder on Monday, September 29, 2003 7:52 PM
I drive a turbo diesel pickup, and all I can say is that it must be REALLY fun to drive a 16 cylinder turbo diesel.
Limitedclear, I missed the "girl photo", what was it?

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:48 AM
Adrian : The throttle response is a little slower but watch out for the low end torque, OH BABY !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:17 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by drailed1999

Adrian : The throttle response is a little slower but watch out for the low end torque, OH BABY !!!!!!!!!!!!!


... and like Peter J. S. said on the Alco tape it will outpull anything in the barn. [:)]
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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

Geez, I get out and keep workin' and this place sure got boring...

What's going on out there???

LC
OK - I ate my Friskies, so here goes. This was on Paul Harvey and he is rated G. Besides since most of the readers are male...well, read on and you will get my drift!

Guess Londoners, as in England, are used to late trains. Seems they are late because of leaves on the tracks or the rails are slick. But something new came up the other day. They were late as usual, but it was because the Engineer Trainee fainted - from listening to the hoghead describe his vasectomy.

Sissies! [:I]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:04 PM
Was the Trainee male or female?

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:07 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

Was the Trainee male or female?

LC
[:D] Bad LC Bad LC - of course it was a male - Women aren't that squeamish! Especially since they did away with fainting couches!

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 5, 2003 9:28 PM
ok We all need an OOK fix. Bring back the kitty. No more Friday afternoons off. It just makes the weekend tooooooooooooooo long for the rest of us. [:p]

Well did you really ruin driver's day off? Did ya do any fanning? Come on now, let's have the skinny, who, what, where, when, why? lol

Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Now its back to work. [:(]
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Posted by Mookie on Monday, October 6, 2003 12:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

ok We all need an OOK fix. Bring back the kitty. No more Friday afternoons off. It just makes the weekend tooooooooooooooo long for the rest of us. [:p]

Well did you really ruin driver's day off? Did ya do any fanning? Come on now, let's have the skinny, who, what, where, when, why? lol

Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Now its back to work. [:(]
I am back and yes, I did ruin his nice day off. A little. Made him take me to the grocery store - he cooks, so he has to contribute to buying, too.

Wanted to go watch trains Friday afternoon, so after putting away groceries, we both sat down and never moved until supper! Drat!

But Sat and Sun both, while he was working, I slipped out and Millie and I watched a lot of trains! They were cleaning out the yard, so everything that could, moved. Saw UP, lots of coal, lots of freight and one TFM engine! The Dash 9's still sound like they putt-putt. They are really noisy next to the SD70's. And scared the peas out of a front-end loader. He was going to go around the gates until he sized up the engine coming at him - at a pretty good clip! And this was an older man - well, he had white hair, so assume he was over 30. [;)]

Have one question, and will post it as soon as I get through the list!

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