Okay, open Forum, off-topic, or whatever (grab a cup and sit)

[vsmith]

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Wow, did this topic die suddenly like....not a single post for a year and a half...

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mgilger



This is my first test at posting a picture. I hope it works.
Mark

Hmmmmmmmmm it didn't. My suspicion is that the file name and or the URL is too long. Some browsers/forum software get the hicups, but the URL as such works, nice picture.

[mgilger]

This is my first test at posting a picture. I hope it works.
Mark

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tangerine-jack

I think both, Phil. If at first you don't succeed.......................

....Destroy all evidence that it was ever attempted.

Murphy's Law #5

Busy weekend...but between hanging decoration, setting up the tree and Xmas train, Xmas shopping and having to sit thru the wifes new DVD of the BBC "Pride and Prejudice" I DID manage two other very important thing to me.

1. managed to FINALLY retruck almost all of the LGB two axle cars into 4 axle cars thanks to a super el-crappo cheepie trains et that the local Big Lots was selling, I managed to get enough sets before they all dissappeared, that yielded 9 pairs of not very semi-scale 4 axle trucks (but OK to my eye) that only required about 10 minutes each to convert to Bachmann ore car sized wheels. I would have posted a topic on it but the sets came and went SO fast I didnt want to send anyone on a wild goose chase, and the track that came with the set was 50mm gauge which I fixed by adding 2 mm styrene on each side and reboring the wheel holes, I promise to post some some pics.

2. A freind invited us to a movie to see his "acting" premier in "Memoirs of a Geisha" unfortunatly it sold out and we were one ticket shy of a full party, so I volunteered to go see something else ( I didnt really want to see Geisha anyway) and since King Kong was also sold out, I got to go see "The Producers" which turned out to be the ONLY theater in LA it was playing in....

OMG LMAO ROF Bust a gut funny! Ever laughed so hard you dry heave?
Anyway THE funniest Movie I've seen this year, better than "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and tops "Old School" and "Shaun of the Dead" as the funniest movie I've seen in the last 5 years..Will Ferrill is just plain nuts in The Producers[(-D]

BTW my wife said our friends "acting" premier in "Geisha" DID make the final cut, all 3 second of the back of his head were visible,in the theater suddenly someone cried "Thats ME!!!!!!!!" [;)]

PS she didnt like it, too slow, too melodramatic, and adherence to history? whats that?

"Spring time for Hitler and Germany..
Winter for Poland and France....." [(-D]

Mel Brooks is a God![bow]

[tangerine-jack]

I think both, Phil. If at first you don't succeed.......................

[toenailridgesl]

"Picking up (pun intended) on the "G-String" theme in "Faller": How do you tune a "G" string??"

Tongue-in-cheek...
or lickety-split..

[vsmith]

If you can tune a piano can you tuna fish?

[RhB_HJ]

Picking up (pun intended) on the "G-String" theme in "Faller": How do you tune a "G" string??[:)][:)][:D]

[Tom The Brat]

Hahahah! The psycho people tell me I never got to teenage.

Forever 6 and proud of it!

[tangerine-jack]

Sigh, it must be the new teen generation: "I do what I want and if you don't accept that then you are disrespecting me". I always thought that respect was given first before it was returned. Using that philosophy, then aren't the teens disrespecting all of us? Just wondering..............

It's sad that a few anti-social trolls are giving the teens a bad name right now. I'm sure the majority are well behaved, respectful, and very knowledgable. Lord knows they have the enthusiasm and energy! In any case, yes "THEY" are being watched by a great many people, and they know they are wrong or else why the fear of being told on? Just an observation.......

All right, back to normal now!

[RhB_HJ]

TJ,

There is no accounting for some of the behaviour. OTOH TOC and I just returned the favour and told them: You're being watched!

What I'm really not keen on is getting emails with obscene language (aka the way some people talk everyday, all the time!), that's when my eyes get larger and my ears perk up. [;)][:D][:D]

OTOH little has changed since 96/97 when the same clowns (different generation) had their "fun" on the newsgroups. One most unsavoury character finally exited two groups after I wrote a complete modern "fairy tale". The laughter on four continents was something to behold. [;)][:)][:)]

[tangerine-jack]

hey, just to change the subject for a moment, is any body else confused about all the posting going on in the last few days by the "teen" crossovers? Not to try to disuade anybody's free speech, but what purpose does it serve to start a topic on a forum you are not really interested in, then insult longstanding forum members? Maybe it's just me, but that's very rude. Seems to me that each of the forums on trains.com has a "flavor" to it, why disrupt that? Every now and then I'll pop over to the HO forum and snoop around, and maybe once in a great while I'll post a "hello" or something on the coffee shop, but I would never think to impose my brand of RR philosophy on those who wouldn't understand or appreciate it anyway.

Like I said, maybe it's just me [%-)]

[toenailridgesl]

Thanks for that, Clive. I guess he could be a member of the Oddfellows?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by toenailridgesl

Gary, 87 is unlucky according to Oz cricketers becuase of the huge number of batsmen that have been bowled out on that number, plus it's 13 short of a ton. The Poms unlucky cricket number is 111, which for some reason they call a Nelson.

Hello Phil

Nelson (as in 'Admiral Lord Horatio') = 1 eye, 1 arm, 1 t*st*cle (to use the polite version![}:)] )

Cheers

Clive

[Train 284]

bump

trying to get it on the front page again =)

[tangerine-jack]

“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

“The Man in the Arena”
Author Unknown

Just thought I'd share.

[Gary Crawley]

QUOTE: Originally posted by toenailridgesl

Gary, 87 is unlucky according to Oz cricketers becuase of the huge number of batsmen that have been bowled out on that number, plus it's 13 short of a ton. The Poms unlucky cricket number is 111, which for some reason they call a Nelson.

Thanks Phil

I knew there was a reason for not sitting on 87.

Anyway Ia'm watching the ING cup on tele, Tassie against South Aus, having a couple of ales.
Good game.

Regards
Gary

[toenailridgesl]

Gary, 87 is unlucky according to Oz cricketers becuase of the huge number of batsmen that have been bowled out on that number, plus it's 13 short of a ton. The Poms unlucky cricket number is 111, which for some reason they call a Nelson.

[Gary Crawley]

QUOTE: Originally posted by RhB_HJ

QUOTE: Originally posted by Gary Crawley

Had to post again to get off the Devils number

Gary

Hey Gary,

I thought that was 666, not 88!?! [;)][:)]

Sorry guy's
Short exclamation

It's 87 I was refering to.
Cricketers (the game that is) believe that it is unlucky to be on 87, I think it originated in England (something to do with Nelson)

Our English friends may be able to help.

Regards
Gary

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Gary Crawley

Had to post again to get off the Devils number

Gary

Hey Gary,

I thought that was 666, not 88!?! [;)][:)]

[Anonymous]

Well their is no running trains out side for a few days , can't find the tracks , over 8 inches of snow covers every thing , and the wind just started to blow 20 to 30 miles an hour , may not find the track until spring. ben[:)]

[Gary Crawley]

Had to post again to get off the Devils number

Gary

[Gary Crawley]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Bob Johnson

HJ,
Lordy, don't send me to that certain part of Queensland, what do they (ascerbically) call it the gold coast? I always had trouble understanding what those guys on the old "Mobil Austral" were saying (Aussie Crew)!

But, if I have to go, send me on a Columbus Line ship, those krauts are good feeders!

Capt

We will talk real sloooow for you.

Pass another beer please dear. (real hot here)

Reards
Gary

[Capt Bob Johnson]

HJ,
Lordy, don't send me to that certain part of Queensland, what do they (ascerbically) call it the gold coast? I always had trouble understanding what those guys on the old "Mobil Austral" were saying (Aussie Crew)!

But, if I have to go, send me on a Columbus Line ship, those krauts are good feeders!

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Doest thou forget from whence my pension checks come? 35 years guiding tankers on Del River? Biggest refinery area outside of Gulf of Mexico is in Philly area! My bread is buttered with oil! Understand my attitude?

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Bob Johnson

Ah, music to my ears. Those oil stocks are really gonna pay off for me for a change instead of going sideways as they did for years! Who cares about the price if your dividend checks make enough to pay for your heating oil & gas?

Bet I start a war with that attitude, but that's how I feel! That's how I screw the electric co too, just let the dividend checks pay the bill.

Nah, but we'll make you move to Queensland, Australia. [;)][}:)][}:)][:D][:D][:D]

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Ah, music to my ears. Those oil stocks are really gonna pay off for me for a change instead of going sideways as they did for years! Who cares about the price if your dividend checks make enough to pay for your heating oil & gas?

Bet I start a war with that attitude, but that's how I feel! That's how I screw the electric co too, just let the dividend checks pay the bill.

[Anonymous]

Yup. I tried to work on the train shop in the shed tonight. Still can't thaw out. We will have to struggle to get above 12 deg during the day tomorrow. Right now it is 4 with a wind chill of -26. I think the winters of 77-78, 79-80 and 84-85 were similar to the way this one is starting out. No BS that winter, 84-85 in the Chicago area, DuPage county airport recorderd the lowest ever temperature for that area of around 53 degrees below zero. The wind chill was 88 degrees below zero. I had a 5spd transmission in my car. It was so cold the lube froze and took running the engine for 4 hours till it thawed out enough to just be able to put it in gear and another 2 to drive. Glad it was a good bar night at work. I remember I ran the car all night just so I could make it to work the next day, and I did. That was the year I decided to move south to Atlanta.

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cmjrr

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I take it that's the "Ode to chattering teeth".[:p][:p][:p]

[Anonymous]

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