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Posted by Packers#1 on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:03 PM

inch53

 

Afternoon all, just an irish coffee ta-go please.

Just dropped by to leave a couple bad jokes

A Doctor was addressing a large audience:

"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long- term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake."

#2

John was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully.
'Give me one last request, dear,' he said.
'Of course, John,' his wife said softly.
'Six months after I die,' he said, 'I want you to marry Bob.'
'But I thought you hated Bob,' she said.
With his last breath John said, 'I do!'

 

 I will quietly slip out the back door and disappear for a while now

 

ROTFLMAO!!! Great jokes, gonna have to share those at school tomorrow, if I remember them, lol.

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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:04 PM

JimRCGMO

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Luke, congrats on your RR's newest addition to your motive power!

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau

  Thanks Jim. I'm looking to get a sound decoder for it. That is my strongest loco.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:08 PM

 Looks like I got top honors. Go easy on my wallet please, i want to have a little left overf or trains. Wink

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Posted by Robby P. on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:12 PM

Well I will take a water then.  Wink

Can't beat that, and its easy on the wallet.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:19 PM

Robby P.

Well I will take a water then.  Wink

Can't beat that, and its easy on the wallet.

 

Thanks. 

ell, I'm going to head home for the night, been nice talking with you fellas. Just put it on my tab (which I swear will someday be paid after tonight).

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:23 PM

 I'll have the steak and lobster, Coke for the drink.


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Posted by Robby P. on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:30 PM

Jeff, where do you find those pictures.  Every time you post them I get VERY hungry!!!!   Dinner

I can say I have never had lobster.  One of these days I will.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:34 PM

 I dug them up on a Yahoo search for 'food picture' and  saved a bunch of them to a few of my Photobucket accounts. I put the IMG tags in a text file on my hard drive with captions describing what each tage is so I can copy and paste them any time I want.

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Posted by Cederstrand on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:14 PM

Grilled Salmon, please & thank you.

Quite a rain event tonight. Still draining the holding tank in anticipation of another 2" overnight. Have no idea what the total rainfall is for the past few days, but it must be substantial.

Wifes "Ma's Place" model arrived today. Looks nice and will fit in splendedly. Also the 3 new (old Roundhouse) circus cars arrived and she was most pleased with them.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:37 PM

RT; Did we meet somewhere before----I'm trying to type and 'Spring' the child he is has to get up here between me and laptop and 'schmooze' along , headbutting and making barely audible whispermeows------oh brother-----Whistling

I'm going through some brushes and sponges in here----I 'acquired' Audrey's pastels---guess what for?-----heeheeheeMischiefWhistling

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Posted by Hoople on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:38 PM

 Evenin' all!

It's just about dinner time in rainy Seattle, so I'll have the Steakburger again...  Mainly because it makes Jim's mouth water.

 

Yum Yum...

Anyways, we have started auditions for the school play. Every year the 8th grade is forced to put one on. This year, my class will be performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. It is going to be the 1950's rock and roll highschool version... Woohoo. I think the play is going to be some time in march.

Catch Y'all later.

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Posted by Paul W. Beverung on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:43 PM

Evening Gang: Not much going on here. the son in laws parents are heading for home in England tomorrow. I will miss having them here. We didn't get to spend as much time with them as I wanted. I hope that they will be able to come back soon.

Tomorrow we get to sleep in late. We were up at 4am to get Mary Ann to her dialysis appointment so I'm a bit tired. John is coming over tomorrow to work on the stock trailer. We have a bunch of calfs to sell and the floor in the trailer is shot. Calfs without feet don't sell for much.

Well I guess I'll head for bed.

Good Night All

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Posted by TMarsh on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:49 PM

Oh for crying out loud people, PLEASE!! I wasn't all that hungry when I came in Started out having a country fried steak craving thrown at me but now with all these pictures of food... I'll just have the left side of the menu please and a small diet rite cola thank you. Sorry Sawyer but in the words of the imortal John Belushi "IT"S NOT MY FAULT!"

Oh and I told the joke about John on his death bed to my wife.

I'll be spending the night in the back. I'll make sure the coffe's on tomorrow.

Prayers for those in need

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I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk. Laugh

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Posted by unca roggie on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 8:56 PM

 {from someone's earlier post....}

 Nothing wrong with being an insurance agent.

What that "punchline" was supposed to indicate, was how she'd be RIGHT about what I turned out to BE....I guess it isn't as much "common knowledge" of my being in insurance, as I'd hoped---at least to make that joke FUNNY. 

And, by all MEANS, I'm not going to be one to denegrate the insurance biz----it has been "berry berry goot to me" for 35 years, and allows for me to live in two places nowhere NEAR the actual office of the agency (I'm 1200 miles away from it, right now). 

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ON THE MATTER OF DRY TRANSFERS:  Some helpful modeller in here, put me on to some Canadian outfit that is wholesaling off the very LAST of the stock of RAILROAD themed dry transfers...and being in California now, I set it up that they'd mail my neighbour in B.C. my order....and she called today to confirm the fat envelope arrived (mostly WHITE alphabet sets, so I can turn all my UNDEC boxcars and stuff, into equipment owned by the good ol' F&A Rwy)

She also laughed at me, saying she saw a wad of dry transfers at the local DOLLAR STORE, there in Kelowna, B.C., and thinks MICHAEL's stores also carries them.  So I hit the Palm Springs Michaels an hour ago, noticing they DID have sets of alphabets, but only in BLACK, and costing $3 U.S. for a skimpy set, with but ONE "&" provided (no doubt the most used item by model railroaders). 

Anyway, thanks again to the fellow poster on this site who led me to TMR Sales!

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Posted by der5997 on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:02 PM

Just dropped by for a hot chocolate before bed. Sign - Welcometo all the new folks, good to see our merry band increasing. Hope you stay awhile.

Twelth night...we took down all the inside decorations today, and the outside lights are on for the last time this season.  The worst of this is packing away the Christmas hats. (Santa Hats) They are the warmest winter hats we've come across, but do look a bit odd worn in February!

CapeJim: The Doctor's visit was more of a check in than a check up. I needed a prescription renewed, and he won't just write a bunch of refills on this one. He wants to see my blood pressure results over the past prescription time. Last Sunday morning was faily typical...maybe a bit lower than some have been, at 118 over 68.

I forget who mentioned Statins and possible dire effects.  I cut a deal with the endocrinologist who wanted to put me on those.  "Give me 6 moths to try Pysillium Bran" I said.  That was over two years ago, and there has been no mention of Statins since!  I use a table spoon a day in juice, with plenty of water at the meal so it can swell up and not suck water from me!

With both re-installed turnouts functioning, even the oddly behaving loco running through (not the loco it turns out (npi), but my indifferent track laying skills Banged HeadBlush) I'm now ready to complete the track cleaning, and have the whole layout operational again. Yeah!!

There may be a new loco in our future. My VIA train had a Life Like F40PH, but it's wheels wouldn't negotiate important parts of the route. My attempts to install RP25 wheelsets from NWSL ended in failure. So I was after the Kato version. Couldn't get the funds together before the model sold out...so I'm looking at going a bit into the future and positing a GE P42 on the Halifax to Sydney Nova Scotia run.  How do you think a pale turquoise green loco will look hauling silver Bud coaches around?  The loco paint scheme pre-supposes similarly painted coaches. ( bought by VIA from Eurpoe, and used now on the Atlantic, the Montreal-Halifax run.)  I guess in the end it comes down to what I was going to say to whoever mentioned the other day that they were a bit worried about what picky visitors might have to say about their efforts.  One of the original Coffee Shop patrons was "Teffy". He visited our house one time, and brought a present...a plaque that reads

NOTICE!  ANYONE THAT DOESN'T LIKE THE MANNER IN WHICH THESE TRAINS ARE OPERATED, PLEASE NOTICE THE MISTLETOE ATTACHED TOTHE OWNER'S SHIRT TAIL.

 A bit before Christmas I mentioned I had to be at an Arts Society dinner. Kris belongs and I was her guest...but she wasn't well that evening, so I went alone.  What's come of that is an invite to present at their next meeting, Jan 14th, on my layout...pics and models. Turns out mrr is Art.  but you knew that, right?Big Smile

Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.Angel

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:03 PM

Well, since the whole diner is stuffed with the bouquet of delectible goodies for our perusal I'll have the Grilled Salmon dinner then go with a good ol' slice of raspberry pie and a large glass of milk please---oh yes and a decaf coffee pleaseDinnerSmile,Wink, & Grin

Oh well- back to the back---think I'll join todd here--------Whistling

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Posted by gear-jammer on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:24 PM

JimRCGMO

Cederstrand
She now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train?

Rob, quick! - Hide the Walthers catalog from the wife - it's your only hope! ShockSmile,Wink, & Grin

 

Jim in Cape Girardeau

Now really.  How many of your wives have done that to you?  Laugh

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Posted by Flashwave on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:47 PM

John: The fire engine sounds amazing.

Rob: Lima TGV locos run about 40, you may not get many coaches though. Model power recenly put out a nice, but notaccurate model of the ICE, also in Accela scheme. They had on their clearence page a powered engine, four coaches, and an unpowered loco for 50+s/h. But I don't see it as of tonight. Runs great though. I have the accela, but with two powered locos, one turned around and modified with parts from the dummy. She flies.

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Posted by jguess733 on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:33 PM

Black coffee please. Western Washington has a flood/high wind warning. Looks like the avalanche warnings from this morning have been lifted. According to NOAA's National Data Bouy Center the temp at New Dungeness is 48 degrees with a 45 degree water temp. Looks like the New Dungeness Bouy has gone adrift. Other than that, nothing much is going on up here in the PacNorWest. I start working graves tomorrow night, so I'm gonna stay up late tonight in hopes of adjusting my sleep schedule. Later all.

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Posted by Cederstrand on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:37 PM

Found a number of ICE trains by different makers: PIKO, Fleischmann, Marklin and TRIX. Any experiences and/or thoughts on any of these brands for HO ????? (still looking for the Model Power ICE version)

To the sound of rain on a tin roof, it's time I hit the hay. Good night all.

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Posted by wetidlerjr on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 4:34 AM

Good Morning from Tipton IN ! Big Smile

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 4:41 AM

blownout cylinder

RT; Did we meet somewhere before----I'm trying to type and 'Spring' the child he is has to get up here between me and laptop and 'schmooze' along , headbutting and making barely audible whispermeows------oh brother-----Whistling

HMMMM maybe I give yous a little hint

 2009 Coffee Pot. Here we gather with friends with trains for chats, 4 years of coffee and sweet ice tea. Smile,Wink, & Grin

Morning all not to much happening around here just getting ready for work. Have a good day

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 5:07 AM

 

gear-jammer

JimRCGMO

Cederstrand
She now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train?

Rob, quick! - Hide the Walthers catalog from the wife - it's your only hope! ShockSmile,Wink, & Grin

 

Jim in Cape Girardeau

Now really.  How many of your wives have done that to you?  Laugh

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 5:52 AM

 Good morning.

It's 38 and clear. Hard to believe after all the rain we got yesterday. Today's high will be in the mid 60's and it will be partly cloudy.

Didn't do much yesterday aside from pry the base off the Atlas passenger station as the first step of converting it to freight station. I'm at the point of trying to decide where to put the Shell Auto Center. I also have to juggle a couple of structures around to make way for the fire station as well. Decisions, decisions.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      1/7/2009


Wind Chill:  38°F
Humidity:  74%
Dew Point:  30°F

So Far Today
High:  48°F
Low:  38°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  25mph NNE

Today  High: 65    Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.

Tonight  Low: 42    Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.


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Posted by inch53 on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 6:16 AM

gear-jammer

JimRCGMO

Cederstrand
She now wants a double track so she can run two trains at once. One passenger train and of course her cricus train. Anyone know where a reasonable price can be found on any brand of HO scale ICE train or similar high speed European train?

Rob, quick! - Hide the Walthers catalog from the wife - it's your only hope! ShockSmile,Wink, & Grin

 

Jim in Cape Girardeau

Now really.  How many of your wives have done that to you?  Laugh

Sue

 

  Normal 0 Me for one, she even hides my tool catalogs and sale flyers from the lumber yard n hardware stores. Back when I was turning wrenches for a living. She threatened the Mac and Snapon tool guys lives.

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Posted by LSWrr on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 6:48 AM

Good morning all.

Ice with rain this morning turning into snow, high today will be 30F.

Lee

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 7:07 AM

Good morning people---Today will be interesting----Freezing rain, ice pellets, sleet, and snow pretty much through till tomorrow morning will leave us with about 12-15cm on the ground and temps around -2C to -8C range.Grumpy

RT: Oh so thats where----Whistling

JeffW; At least the rain stopped---more like temporary truce, kind of--- from the sounds of things you may need to build an ark----Whistling

Rob----Hope nothing floated away----at least your wife is doing something IN the hobby. Guy I know up here had an issue with his wife---got to the point he had to order stuff over the phone to an LHS---at my place. If his wife caught him at it at home she would pull the plug on the landline----he'd sneak around with his work cell et cetera----no fun at all----Smile,Wink, & GrinWhistling

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Posted by demonwolf224 on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:42 AM

Well, there's good and bad news today, Good News:

School is cancelled

Bad News:

I'm going to have to wait for awhile for a layout due to the economy

To top the money thing, I'm going to have a baby tooth ripped out

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:51 AM

demonwolf224
To top the money thing, I'm going to have a baby tooth ripped out

Ouch! Been there and done that.

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Posted by pcarrell on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:53 AM

Another day, another dollar! 

Good Morning!

Indianapolis, Indiana

Currently: 28°F Light Snow
Wind: South-Southwest at 5 MPH
Humidity: 86%
Dewpoint: 25°F
Barometer: 29.33 inches
Wind Chill: 23°F
Sunrise: 8:05 am
Sunset: 5:36 pm

Today: cloudy with scattered snow showers. Nearly steady temperatures around 30. West winds 10 to 20 mph.

For me, it's kind of a slow start for the morning for me.  I was up late last night working on hanginh bicycles from the garage ceiling.  Made a lot of room in the garage that way.


Yeah, thats me today!

Robby P.
I can say I have never had lobster.

Ummm, I think thats actually a crime, punishable by law!  Well, when you do have it, get the good stuff.  Don't go cheap and get the stuff that tastes like rubber!

Philip

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