In Jokes and Gags

[Packer]

I have an HO VW minibus, maybe I'll get another one and try that.

[Anonymous]

I've seen some old car converted into a  "Ma and Pa"  track inpection vehicle.  Doubt the BN would do that though....

[lvanhen]

Maybe I'll model one of these.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th6-klM-3jU 

NOTE: Video is not dirty or inappropriate in any way. 

I've got one of those!!  It's a Bachmann - I don't think it runs anymore - never ran well to start with - too light - too short - & God only knows what's inside for a motor (I never bothered to look!)

[Flashwave]

- Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday?

GS:

I am pretty sure that the "Car of Tomorrow" would have to have more fins, a bubble canopy, six wheels, some turbine intakes, and steering by joystick. 

Obviously not a NASCAR fan.  The "Car of Tomorrow" is now the standard NASCAR racer, and it still bears a passing resemblance to street legal.  (It also has a V8 with four-barrel carburetors - the 'Car of Tomorrow' with Grandpa's Dream Engine!)

Modeling challenge - model a pig unit loaded with NASCAR haulers.  If fuel costs keep going up, we may see it in the prototype.

Chuck (NASCAR fan modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

That brings back my plans of a NASCAR road course running across a the mainline. "Racing the train???"

As a transfan, and an owner of the Tyco 86 Transformers trainset, I plan on recreating Mount Saint Hilary (the volcano the Ark crashlanded into) with a spurline. *Insert obligatory "scene is more than meets the eye" joke here*

As Dad spent some time out of state, we had stories we told to keep us awake on the 2.5 hour trip to his place on the weekends. We played the truck as a train, and now we're playing the cast of regular passengers into their day lifes

Modeling an homage to the Madison Incline. Not funny

have a boxcar sticking out of river on end of fishing line=Funny.

 

I managed to forget 2, of which I've forgotten one again. One focused a video of a car in an industral road, with Streetrunning or at least a roadside spur. Fred qwould sit in a car with a hardwired Turnsignal, and would suffer every start of the workweek by being made late from a tramn less than 50 feet from his office. His name is Fred. (Which was an unintentional joke in and of itself) And we'd end every video with "Happy Monday!"

[trolleyboy]

Lets see I have a couple. I have a kitbashed  heljan Brewery Kit which is now the I.P. Freely & Sons Bath Fixture Plant ( I've yet to kitbash or find some porcelin thrones for the loading  dock ) I have a near HO scale Chewbacca that's sitting in an outdoor cafe, and I've set up a small donut shop using the Walther hite castle restaurant  which has at least 15 plice cars parked in it's lot and out back I have the Woodland scenic Chain Gang enlarging the parking lot.

Rob

Funny stuff! Especially the chain gang!

Got pics?

Rotor

 No no pictures yet, the layout's not finished enough yet to be photogenic ( not that it will win any prizes anyway LOL )

We used to do all sorts of wierd and wonderfull things on a club layout I belonged to as well.During open houses we handed out a sheet to the kids comming in with fifteen or twenty funny things to look for while they were in,the parents got a bigger kick out of that as well,

At one point on the  club layout we had a window washer clinging to his washing rig with his feet dangling a bucket was attached to his one foot ( approx on the tenth story of the building )Lots of small stuff like that, we had the preiser crate on an old athearn 40 foot flat with the large green octopus tentacles coming out,we also had a "party car " another old Athern 40' flat with benches and kegs mounted on it along with some of the towns notables

Rob

 

[wjstix]

And I got Mongo And GW.

 

You gotta fatten up that Mongo, Alex Karras was around 250-275 lbs. in his playing days.

[cbq9911a]

I've got a couple:

Headache Hammers

G. E. Neric and Company

Madonna Della Ferrostrada Cathedral (literally "Our Lady of the Railway"), a take on Madonna Della Strada, the church on the Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus.

Canine American Pet Foods

Karol Wojtoyla Community College.  Named after the Archbishop of Cracow and Polish Patriot who "disappeared" in October 1978 (but lived another 28 years as Pope John Paul II).

Condemned Edison - like Commonwealth Edison and Consolidated Edison.

Penguin Tuxedo.

Tarjhay Department Stores  

[MisterBeasley]

Here's the Strumpet Brewery:

The slogan at the top reads "Nothing Goes Down Like A Strumpet."

[miniwyo]

One of our club members is pretty heavy into the political humor....

He has, Honest Willes Used Cars, W.J.Clinton Proprieter.

The Al Gore Memorial Forest (Which Has been completely clearcut by logging)

2 office buildings Sharing a wall, One has blue trim and AC, the Other with Grey trim and all the windows open. Each with a sign, The Mason Building and the Dixon Building. He also has a figure at a Sinclair Station sitting in a chair. His Father In law used to own a Sinclair Station and sit in a chair outside it.

He took business cards from a local business, glued them back to back, cut the logo and name out, and turned it in to a sign for a building.

An out of the way point on the river, Viewable only by people of adult heigth, with skinny dippers. 

 

I am planning on a Construction site, and modeling all the guys I know on it. As well as painting and decalling equipment for the Contractors we use.

Also The UP some years ago buried a Tank Car full of Peanut Oil in the desert out here after a derailment. Well, on my layout, the Tank Car was not buried deep enough....

My Aunt, Who is a horrible driver, will have been in an accident somewhere on the layout.

I may attempt to make a Cloverfield type Scene, with the people runnng from a monster, one shooting it with a video camera.

I was thinking of a Rodeo Scene too.... Complete with Rodeo Clown, And maybe a rider hanging by the seat of his pants from the Bull's Horn

 

[twhite]

Well, in thinking about it, there is ONE 'in' joke on the Yuba River Sub, it concerns a little restaurant/uh--"establishment" outside of Sierra City across the North Fork bridge called MA'S PLACE that is pretty popular with the loggers and miners of that area. 

In fact, I have the mayor's teenage son pulled over by Officer Kolstad just as he was thinking of frequenting that particular establishment (while his high school buddy drives slowly by in his yellow '48 Ford convertible), and Ma herself leaning on the porch looking on, chuckling to herself thinking: "This kid should be at football practice". 

You see, it's early afternoon, and the place isn't even OPEN yet, so about all the Mayor's son could have gotten would have been a Coca-Cola, anyway. 

Ah, nothing like growing up in the California foothills!

Tom

 

[METRO]

Another thing I intend to do, is put in a headline ticker board on the offices of the newspaper in the urban part of the layout.  On it will read "Interport Budget Doubled" (Interport being the name of the freelanced government-owned belt line around the metropolis.) 

Right in front of the building will be parked a brand new Porsche Cayenne Turbo modified into a Hi-Rail with the Interport Logo on the side.

Cheers!
~METRO

[lvanhen]

Some place I have a White Water Real Estate, Bill & Hillary prop. and a Simpson & Bobitt Knives & Cutlery.

[PA&ERR]

NOTE: Video is not dirty or inappropriate in any way. 

Then why bother watching it?

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself!)

-George

[jfallon]

One of the industries on my layout is a scrapyard with a large pile of horn-hook and plastic knuckle couplers.

[philnrunt]

   I remember a fellow who had a nude HO scale picture of his ex-wife in the picture window of his ex-house, he would point it out to suitable subjects at train shows.

   Steamage and twhite- if you add a recording of the noise the ants made and have it coming out of that sewer entrance, well lets just say- feets don't fail me now! Great scene!

[R. T. POTEET]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

[ArtOfRuin]

One of my Guilford locos has part of the "R" in "Guilford Rail System" removed so it now reads "Guilford Fail System." This vandalism actually happens to GRS locos in real life, too.

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2006070316442025613.jpg:bysearch:Guilford+Fail+System:SEARCHTYPE=SIMPLE&PAGE=1&BOOL=ALL&SEARCHSTRING=Guilford+Fail+System

I'm going to add a winter rally race scene to my layout. Should I make a scene set in another season, I plan on adding a road race track.

One guy I know did have a 1:48 scale Transformers Subaru WRX he had on his Lionel layout. He'd usually leave it in car mode, but occasionally he'd put it on his old HO scale layout he was dismantling and have it duke it out with Godzilla or Voltron.

[MisterBeasley]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

Go for it, Little Buddy.

[PA&ERR]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

No wonder it took them so long to get off that island!

-George

[shayfan84325]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

I don't know if it's wise to mess with MaryAnn: 

[jondrd]

One of our members is working on a hotel...with two separate light circuits.  One for "family" viewers, and one for adult viewers.  And the interior scenes lit by each will be appropriate for each.

For the adult hotel scene, thinking of making a model of ex Gov. Eliot Spitzer? Maybe a state trooper outside the hotel entrance leaning on a patrol car?

Jon

[Kenfolk]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

Go for it, Little Buddy.

                       That is funny!

[lvanhen]

One of our members is working on a hotel...with two separate light circuits.  One for "family" viewers, and one for adult viewers.  And the interior scenes lit by each will be appropriate for each.

For the adult hotel scene, thinking of making a model of ex Gov. Eliot Spitzer? Maybe a state trooper outside the hotel entrance leaning on a patrol car?

Jon

Hey!!  I'm from New Jersey - let's not forget OUR ex-gov!!!

[vsmith]

I dont know if these are considered "inside jokes" or not but most of my layout will or already is named after things I've found in some of my favorite movies, even the very name of my layout comes from a scene in the movie The Great Race ..."Citizens of Borracho!" . Well my layout will have a saloon that will be called "Donovans Reef" from the same movie, a gentlemans club called "Madame Orr's House" and a cafe "Emma's Tasty Treats" both from "Support your Local Sheriff" a few other in the works as the layout progresses. I also have the advantage that at 1/22.5 scale I can use a great deal of commercially avalable figures in 1/2" scale, including some nifty "Galaxy Express 999" figures I picked up recently, they will be hanging out at the RR station, I also have a couple of "Cowboy Bebop" figurines, I'm also looking for a Bob and Doug McKenzie figurine set for in front of the General Store. I will also be hiding some surprises, like a Dalek hiding amongst some tin trash cans. Theirs a German company (schluco?)  producing a line of cowboy/western figures in close to 1/22 scale that are outstanding, I'm planning to modify one gruffy miner to be riding a Grizzly bear, complete with saddle, into town for his weekly visit, and a group of figures called "terrified B movie victims" that will be fleeing. Lots of ideas can be integrated with subtlety into a layout without it getting campy. I think the trick its to not make make these additions obvious.

[MisterBeasley]

This shot is looking into the window of the Burns Coal and Oil Company:

 

[train18393]

It is the car of yesterday, as the car of tomorrow is now the car of today. I assume it was one of those show cars that the various sponsors tour the country with, because the guy driving the car is not Jeff. I don't think that in 1967 they had any touring COTs, so it had to be the car of yesterday. Jeff would probably been driving quarter migits in 1967, so it can't be him driving. Or would it be the car of the future? At least its not a DeLorian, wait a minuit, that would be Back To the Future, not the Car Of Tomorrow. I forgot about the 68 mustang, they didn't come out until the fall of 67, but that was my first new car, so it stays also even though it ain't right.

Paul
Dayton and Mad River RR

[Texas Zepher]

I didn't do it but during the last op session one of my crew added some 'passengers' to one of my cab forward steam engines...

I've always wanted to add a barbecue grill & associated griller on the "porch" of an SD40-2.

[Texas Zepher]

All of these jokes and gags are visual.  I still think my "stock car with scent" joke a year ago tops them all.   You know, I smelled that car rolling by in a consist at the last operating session....

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1084192/ShowPost.aspx 

[sleeper33]

Hi gang

 when i was reading some of this conversation I noticed that a couple of you want the TARDIS

( police box ) so here is the web site for a company who stocks them

 www. harburnhobbies.com

 sorry don't know how to set a link in.

 hope this helps

Gav

[MisterBeasley]

All of these jokes and gags are visual.  I still think my "stock car with scent" joke a year ago tops them all.   You know, I smelled that car rolling by in a consist at the last operating session....

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1084192/ShowPost.aspx 

Thanks for that reminder.  I went back and read it again, and again laughed out loud.  For those of you who don't normally follow links:  Do this one.  It's worth it.