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Posted by NeO6874 on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 10:40 AM
He tries converting his household appliances to DCC...

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Posted by tstage on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:03 AM

 NeO6874 wrote:
He tries converting his household appliances to DCC...

...and succeeds! Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by stokesda on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:16 AM

 NeO6874 wrote:
He tries converting his household appliances to DCC...

 

You mean a household appliance such as.... a TOASTER?!!

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Posted by NeO6874 on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:20 AM
... and for the inventive MRR-er, a coffee pot as well ;)

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:22 AM
 NeO6874 wrote:
... and for the inventive MRR-er, a coffee pot as well ;)
You can always do well to have Lil' Joe bring you your Cup 'o' Joe.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:35 AM
What a concept.  All I want is F8 control on the kids' music, the dishwasher and yes, the Wife.

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Posted by NeO6874 on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:39 AM

You're gonna need functions 37,001 through 10 million to control the wife.... 

I don't think they go quite that high yetEvil [}:)]

 

Working on the dishwasher... it's fine on the programming track, but as soon as it hits the main.... there has to be SOME way of keeping it from spitting dishes everywhereWhistling [:-^]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:41 AM
 MisterBeasley wrote:
What a concept.  All I want is F8 control on the kids' music, the dishwasher and yes, the Wife.
Laugh [(-D]I'm not touching that one.

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Posted by cheese4432 on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 12:00 PM

When they start laying track down the hall.

When the bench work goes outside of the garage.

When the credit card bill goes up.

When alot more stuff appears in the house.

when the kids all move into one room.

when you have to eat somewhere besides the dining room.... ALL the time.

 

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Posted by slow train Ed on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 12:05 PM
   when  she says (what the h is going on in here sounds like a train  station)lol.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 12:11 PM
When you are waking up at 3pm and haven't done any work in 2 days...Blush [:I]
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 12:18 PM
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When you are waking up at 3pm and haven't done any work in 2 days...Blush [:I]
Been there and done that!Clown [:o)]

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Posted by mononguy63 on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 12:37 PM
...when he emerges from the basement and says, "Well, that helix is finally done. Say, did Lucky Lindy ever make it all the way to France?"

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 12:42 PM

. . . . . your forearms become valve stems and you simulate chuffing when moving from one room to another.

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Posted by galaxy on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 1:04 PM
 stokesda wrote:

 NeO6874 wrote:
He tries converting his household appliances to DCC...

 

You mean a household appliance such as.... a TOASTER?!!

 

Please define "household appliance"...and how means this thing "toaster"? 

 ...need to go draw more water from the well.......Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 1:21 PM
 galaxy wrote:
 stokesda wrote:

 NeO6874 wrote:
He tries converting his household appliances to DCC...

 

You mean a household appliance such as.... a TOASTER?!!

 

Please define "household appliance"...and how means this thing "toaster"? 

 ...need to go draw more water from the well.......Whistling [:-^]

And party down like it's 1799!

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 7:44 PM

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 NeO6874 wrote:
... and for the inventive MRR-er, a coffee pot as well ;)
You can always do well to have Lil' Joe bring you your Cup 'o' Joe.

If HO scale, like the original Varney dockside, the joe had better come in very small cups!

Of course, you could build a double track-spanning cup carrier - something like the rig the Germans put under their 'Dora' railroad siege gun...Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by beegle55 on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 8:02 PM

It's not the main track my appliances have trouble with, its those durn turnouts, can't figure out whats going on there...

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Posted by cjcrescent on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 7:24 AM

 

When he steps outside, looks up at the sun and says, "What's that?"

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Posted by ARTHILL on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 9:43 AM
Snow? What snow? Isn't it summer?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 11:29 AM

He melts when he comes in contact with sunlight.

He walks out of the train room with his eyes glazed over repeating "NMRA...NMRA..."

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