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Posted by drafterdude on Monday, September 3, 2007 8:04 PM

Hey Brandon; 152 was running this weekend at KRM. We also have a new diner but I'm not sure if we plan on serving Spam on board. However I suspect some of the steam TRAIN (whoop there it is) crew may be guilty of cooking Spam in the cab during the weekend runs.

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Posted by loathar on Monday, September 3, 2007 8:09 PM

UP2CSX-You forgot to mention "trains" (rules is rules!)

Shouldn't we all be out drinking at a BBQ somewhere? Preferably on a train!

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Posted by myred02 on Monday, September 3, 2007 8:19 PM
 drafterdude wrote:

Hey Brandon; 152 was running this weekend at KRM. We also have a new diner but I'm not sure if we plan on serving Spam on board. However I suspect some of the steam TRAIN (whoop there it is) crew may be guilty of cooking Spam in the cab during the weekend runs.

Dale

 Aww, man! I wish I could have been there...

I went there on June 19 this past summer, but the 152 didn't pull our train. However, it was conducting an "unofficial test run" to Boston and back. I was a cab rider that day. Boy, Tish and Jim sure know how to keep you entertained! They even let me and my brother (who was also riding in the cab) stay on board after the passengers offloaded and go into the yard and help them switch a little.

I can tell you right now that when the 152 rolls by you at an arm's length away at a fast walkng pace, you never forget it.

As for the spam in the new diner, well, if the people ask for it I guess I could put the CF7 in notch 8 and cook it on the engine's surface, since I plan on coming down there next summer and voulenteering as a diesel engineer every weekend so I can "get my feet wet" in the railroad industry.

-Brandon, NOT a certified engineer, for now...

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Monday, September 3, 2007 8:19 PM
 MisterBeasley wrote:

 loathar wrote:
And which state consumes the most spam? (They have a restored tourist steam train!)

What is Hawaii?

I'll take Spam for a hundred, Alex...

Well, I guess if I turn the sliced Spam at right angles and slice it again, there will be enough sticks for 143 to have some. Chef [C=:-)]

If I turn it again in the other plain, 1144 can each have a cube. Mischief [:-,]

You don't think I'm gonna open more than one can, do you?

Semper Vaporo

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Posted by RedGrey62 on Monday, September 3, 2007 9:53 PM

I like Spam

I like DQ Blizzards

I don't think I'd like a Spam Blizzard!

Not even while watching a train, in the rain, when in Maine, if I only had a brain!  (I know, Dr Seuss and The Wizard of Oz don't go together, just like a Spam Blizzard!)

Rick

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, September 3, 2007 10:03 PM
I do not lke Green Eggs and Spam
Served on the Katy's diner "Sam."
I would not eat them in the Texas heat,
Nor where ever where a freight shall meet.
I could not eat them in an RPO,
nor when the conductor shouts allabode.
I will not eat them with Peter Cooper,
or fried on an SD's Prime mover.
I shall not eat them in a bright red car,
traveling from the gulf to places far,
away along the katy route,
wearing a B&M minuteman suit,
I will not eat green eggs and spam,
Not even in Katy's diner "Sam."

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Posted by youngengineer on Monday, September 3, 2007 10:10 PM

Spam Police alert:

section 1(a) subsection c(3) of the spam covenant code of rules

Talking about spam while not offically part of the spam fan club can get you permanent disbarment from the spam weekly photo contest, and spam forums.

Are you a member..... www.SPAMISKING.com

TRAINS ARE WAY COOLER THAN SPAM!!!!!!!!

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Posted by SOU Fan on Monday, September 3, 2007 10:13 PM

This thread is a bunch of

But then again it is also

BTW

but I read this thread because it's funny!

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Posted by ereimer on Monday, September 3, 2007 10:37 PM
 SpaceMouse wrote:

We don't want this post to get derailled.

 

tell me you meant to include that pun !

i'm not crazy about Spam , used to eat it as a kid but my wife would be disgusted if i brought any home now .

a local DQ had coconut cream pie Blizzards (fantastic BTW) earlier this summer , but only one time , and i haven't seen the flavour elsewhere . maybe it was a market test , and i should have gone back every day ? 

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Posted by alfadawg01 on Monday, September 3, 2007 10:53 PM

And please remember.....Spam spells mapS, backwards.

The ES44AC....fully equipped with factory air conditioning from our fully factory equipped, air conditioned factory.

train

Golly, Mr. Time, do you think it will work?

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 6:16 AM
 alfadawg01 wrote:

And please remember.....Spam spells mapS, backwards.

The ES44AC....fully equipped with factory air conditioning from our fully factory equipped, air conditioned factory.

train

Golly, Mr. Time, do you think it will work?

...here in the city of Emphysema.  Yes, it's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match...

From another old Firesign Theater fan.   Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Humphrey, Humphrey, Humphrew, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon....(that's the train reference, for those that don't remember the LP.)

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:00 AM

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Posted by alfadawg01 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:48 AM
 MisterBeasley wrote:
...here in the city of Emphysema.  Yes, it's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match...

From another old Firesign Theater fan.   Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Humphrey, Humphrey, Humphrew, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon....(that's the train reference, for those that don't remember the LP.)

I think we're all bozos on this, um, train......

Bill

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:26 AM

Say goodnight, Gracie... 

Building advertising on my layout, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, and our favorite enigmatic meat-in-a-can.

 

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Posted by easyaces on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:36 AM
"I am, I am Said Sam I am, Along with trains and green eggs and spam!
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Posted by PA&ERR on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:53 AM

Since this is a model railroad forum, shouldn't we rename "bandwidth" to "trainlength"? In that case shouldn't this thread be renamed "Another pointless waste of trainlength? Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by SteamFreak on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:02 AM

I'll have a dry Spamtini, please.

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Posted by loathar on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:22 AM
Steamfreak-You need to have that Spamtini on a train!
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Posted by jesrr on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:29 AM

 I like spam and I like martinis. this could be the beginning of a beautiful day.

       train

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Posted by SteamFreak on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:57 AM

 loathar wrote:
Steamfreak-You need to have that Spamtini on a train!

I do not like them on a train

I do not like them in the rain

I do not like them here or there

I do not like them anywhere!

 

 jesrr wrote:

 I like spam and I like martinis. this could be the beginning of a beautiful day.

Spamtinis all around on the house!

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:09 AM

What the HELL??????

This thread is like a broken pencil...Pointless. Confused [%-)]

See ya!

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by jesrr on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:32 AM

 steam freak

 

   I'll meet you at the beer barn...... on meSmile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

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Posted by PA&ERR on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 1:44 PM
 SteamFreak wrote:

I'll have a dry Spamtini, please.

Shaken, not stirred, right?

-George

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 1:57 PM

 Dave Vollmer wrote:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

My eyes are actually wet from laughing!  I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!

Did you do that digitally or did you ACTUALLY spread SPAM (tm) into a disk drive????

I LOVE IT!

THAT IS FUNNY, with a capital SPAM!

SEND IT TO HORMEL!!!!!!!!

MAY I PLEASE, PURTY PLEASE, with cream and sugar on top (well, how about Spam and cheese on top), make a copy of your WONDERFUL picture to use as my desktop backgound?

Or even use it as my avitar?

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

SEMPER SPAM!

 

Semper Vaporo

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Posted by claycts on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 1:59 PM

Chip look what you have DONE!!! Pirate [oX)]

Everybody will have to through TRAINING so that the can be TRAINED to work on TRAINS and not get FLAMED for Bad Pictures of TRAINS.

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Posted by SteamFreak on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 6:35 PM
 Semper Vaporo wrote:

 Dave Vollmer wrote:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

My eyes are actually wet from laughing!  I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!

Then you oughta love this.

Which pretty much describes what this weekend felt like. 

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:39 PM
 SteamFreak wrote:
 Semper Vaporo wrote:

 Dave Vollmer wrote:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

My eyes are actually wet from laughing!  I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!

Then you oughta love this.

Which pretty much describes what this weekend felt like. 

Yes, I got a pretty good laugh out of that one too.  That is how I have felt opening some web sites that flood the user with multiple windows being opened.

But I need to explain why that first one was so funny to me.

I used to be the "Acting Manager" of the Automatic Test Equipment Lab where I worked.  ("Acting Manager" means I had ALL the responsibility but not at the Manager pay scale.)

Anyway, I was DEEP into computers; I ate, breathed and slept computers.  I would get so involved in programming problems at the systems level that I would loose track of the hour of the day and day of the week.  I would need to ask someone a question and when I would open the door to the lab to go to the office area the whole place would be dark because everyone had gone home 10 hours ago.

My subconcious would work on software/hardware problems all the time.  I would dream solutions to difficult problems and when I came in to work I could fix them... happened MANY times... Made the phrase "Sleep on it" very meaningful.

There was a period of time where I worked so many hours and was so tired that I was having trouble separating present reality from dreams I had two or three nights(/days) before.  I'd dream that I had done something and then get confused when it had not been done already, or vice-versa.

One day we had a problem with a 5.25-inch floppy disk drive and I told a coworker I would fix it tomorrow when I could bring in some Braunschweiger and a butter knife.

Uh... say what!?!?!?

Apparently, a couple of nights before I had dreamed that a fix for a broken disk drive was to smear Braunschweiger into the opening with a butter knife (like putting peanut butter on bread).

It is now a bit of an inside joke with one of my kids.  Whenever something isn't working right, (especially a computer problem) one of us will say, "I know how to fix it, smear Braunschweiger in the disk drive."

I know that a lot of my dreamed solutions actually worked, but this one was just a bit too far off into left field to even think about actually doing it.  (But, I have often wondered what my mind was trying to do by associating the two in a fix... what is it about Braunschweiger that would be a fix for problems with a floppy disk drive?)

The photo in this thread was so much like the image in the dream that it really hit home.  The only difference is that the Spam is coming out, not Braunschweiger going in.

Oh well...

Semper Vaporo

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:19 PM
 Semper Vaporo wrote:

My eyes are actually wet from laughing!  I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!

Did you do that digitally or did you ACTUALLY spread SPAM (tm) into a disk drive????

I LOVE IT!

Oh, boy...  I just lifted that off a Google image search for SPAM, sorry!  I can't take any credit for it.  Go ahead and use it...  ...if it's copyrighted then we'll both be in trouble!

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:39 PM

Whilst googling for SPAM

Haiku on the Internet

This one caught my eye:

 

SPAM on railroad tracks
Diesels skidding into town
Squealing like stuck pigs

--John Mitchell, jam@altagroup.com

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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