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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:44 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by TEFFY
http://www.kfdm.com/hurricane_live.shtml


John:
When I come I'll bring a lot more chocolate chip cookis then Big_Girl if I can get your team support services.





I' m crushed Bob. [V][:p] Wonder if child welfare would come after me if I put Junior to work every night on the cookie assembly line??? Sugar, chocolate chip, oatmeal scotchies, chocolate chip peanut butter oatmeal monsters even??? Hmmmmm, with Christmas just around the corner could kill two birds with one stone.[;)] What do you say John??[:D]
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Posted by Fergmiester on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:54 PM
Teffy: Unfortunately life isn't quite like that. It went down hill when they wouldn't allow us to flog or keel haul anymore!

Ahhh the good ol' days[oX)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:50 PM
Good Afternoon Captian Fergie:

Now that Captain Fergie is home we all have to congradulate him as this hitch he sailed as the captian. Just think, after spending twenty eight days having all the men becken to his every whim he comes home to Lisa and the two boys. IE: Lisa: "You want the grass cut, well get out their and cut it your self." CAPTIAN FERGIE: "yes dear, .. mumble, mumble." As if the kids care that he was the captian he's just their father.

[#welcome] I'll be nice to have your sense of humor back. I do agree with you though that three months off would run me up the tree. I know their's the "honey-do" list, but that gets old quick. It looks like Tom and Bill in NW Ga. are in for some wind and rain. Dave999 was in the worst place of all - right there in Pensacola, Fla. I think that he and Nancy have left. You missed the part about the Kingston Trio, Burl Ives, and the Smothers Brothers, of course you've probably only heard of these people throu the History channel.

I'm going to call you probably this Sat and talk about the trip. We need to have the whole layout set up for one block if possible, because the chief will put out five amps and will run trains all over the layout. I think that you are going to be impressed.

I figured that by the time John got back on the forum you'd have weighed anchor and been gone, so I called him only to find out that he'd just come back from meeting you. Tell me about how hard you work, as John says ya'll were hard at work Bar - B - Q ing. Texas is the only place were that is considered a vocation.

Well let me get back to work
Ya'll have a blesed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:02 PM
Good Morning All:

I can't believe how fast this forum is going. It's nice to be a part of something good. I've been as busy as a one arm paper hanger and had to miss a little bit.

Tom:
according to our local weather station's hurricane tracking chart, Ivan is going to be around Birmingham about 1:00 AM Friday and headed toward Chattanooga which is going to bring you a lot of rain and wind (called Maria)
the site is:

http://www.kfdm.com/hurricane_live.shtml

My last car for the Walthers Super Chief set came in yesterday and the train sure looks nice with that ABBA up front. Only bad thing is, the train is longer then my passing sidings.

Ed:
I just went back and looked at your pictures and didn't see a turntable. Where is it? No one should miss that much agony. I almost wet my pants reading about your football team selection. Don't the Red Sucks play soccer (?), lacroose (?), curling (?), or some other sport?

Fla Phil:
Remember when the Smothers Bros were the raceiest (not color but lauguage) people on TV, and were censered and we couldn't find out what was bleeped because it was sooooo baaaad.

Big_boy:
GLAD YOU AND BIG_GIRL ARE BACK. I would pull for the Vikings when Warren Moon played for them because of the good things he did for the less fortyanate (SP) (underpriviladged) in Houston. He has the "Warren Moon Foundation" and it helps keep kids in school and off of drugs. It's not sports related.

Noah:
Glad you are going to join the NMRA! I just called and they are going to send me (by snail mail) a list of all of the members in about six zip codes that I gave her, so the list is available you just have to know what you want.

John:
When I come I'll bring a lot more chocolate chip cookis then Big_Girl if I can get your team support services.

Dave9999:
My prayers are with you and your neighbors. The wind is going to be terriable, she's still packing 140 MPH circular and doing 8 MPH on track.

Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
Bob
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Posted by Fergmiester on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:36 AM
Good Afternoon Lady and Gents

Home once again!

Well John I'm glad I got a chance to meet you, I just wish we had more time to talk! Maybe next time.

Now what's with the sports nausea?! Listening to you bunch is like listening to my wife during her Base Ball Heyday.

Teffy thanks for passing John the message as I wasn't sure he saw me pass through. The decals have come along way and should be in production within a week or two. As I'm now researching the measurement / capacity markings.

Lupo and Elliot: I've missed your joyous chorus of late good to see your still hanging around.

And Yes our thoughts and prayers are with those of you who have to face Ivan. Hopefully he will die a quick death.

Regards

Fergie

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Posted by lupo on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:08 AM
Morning all!
Congrats to everyone for reaching milestones in the forum community !
[bday][bow][(-D][swg][:-^]
Hey Elliot you kind of mixed things UP in postcountland:
it was the NES : emeraldisle's instigated never ending story that racked UP 4647 posts !
UP 4647 ?? [D)] that's a locomotive! LOL



[C):-)][C):-)]

the DOS was closed at 939, so the shop is way further than that!
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Posted by egmurphy on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:05 AM
What a streak on the same page!

Jim gets #3000

Big_Boy gets the 2000 th post on this thread !!!

I get first post on page 101, the start of the new millenium !!!!!



Unbelievable.
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:34 AM
Hey Jim congrats on 3000 posts!!!! [bday]

Actually the discontinuance of stars or DOS topic had way more, but Bergie locked it because it was being abused.
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:28 AM
Ed, it was on HBO last year about this time, leading up to the playoffs. I saw it, then I taped it. I should retape it, because the phone rang and I turned the sound down during a short section.

I wanted to see that Cubs vs Red Sox series too. Someone would have had to win it. That fan reaching out for the ball is almost the magnitude of Bucky "F" Dent or Buckner's error.

By the way, back in the mid 80's my father and I went to Boston and saw the Twins play at Fenway. What a neat place. Walking down the street on the way to the game, I didn't even realize it was there, when I was standing right in front of it. It just blended in with the rest of the street. Then to go inside and walk up through the tunnel and WHAM beautiful green (even the monster). The movie Field Of Dreams captured the feeling fairly well. And to think, some people in the video were calling to tear it down to end the curse. How could you part with so much history, even if it is a losing one?[swg]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:59 AM
I just noticed that on the Topic Page it shows this thread as having 100 pages. However we now have 101 pages. They must have never thought there would be so many pages when they designed the system. [B)]


I started a thread in the trains.magazine forum yesterday called, "Duck Duck Goose" and believe it or not it IS train related. Everytime I see the title to THAT thread it quacks me up. [:D] [:D] [:D]


Ed [:)]

So a "bird" designed your code. Sorta fitting since "birds" were also messengers during WWII. I have not seen the movie, Codetalkers but understand it is a good movie. One of these days I will have to rent it and watch it.


Everyone take care.
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Posted by egmurphy on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:31 AM
Krump - I can't believe you broke that code!!! [:O] That was created with a super secret Enigma machine. I had my mother-in-law's parakeet peck out random keys on the computer to generate it!! [:D] All for naught. Oh well, there goes national security. Back to the code board.

BB - where did you find the video, on tv or in a store. I may look for it when we're NOB in a few months. By then the agony of de feet will have worn off and I'll be ready for another jolt of reality.

"The Sox still have 6 games left with NY" - yep, still plenty of time left for them to fold.

Last year I was hoping for the ultimate series - Boston vs Chicago - curse vs curse (although ours is older and more genuine).


Off grocery shopping - more later.

Ed
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:08 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by krump

inspite of Ed's best efforts, and after much time and consideration, I am pleased to say that I have broken the code... the quoted matter below is simply in model railroad code. The entire response is in model rr lingo - you just have to be properly TRAINED to realize that Ed speaks in code - Eagles and Giants are referring to large and / or articulated Steam Engines (just check the internet, dozens of links to these very special engines, of which I know nothing). So, sharing what I have learned, this topic is appropriate to trains - so to be sure... I've cracked the code. Nice try Ed, read on...

QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

Warning - no model railroad content in this pOst whatever!!!

I waNt to telLyou a funny story about how I became a NY (football) Giants fan. I was brought up by my Daddy to be a Red Sox fan. Nothing I can do to change that, it's in my blood. I'VE BEEN uplifted and let down year after year by those guys (except for the years When they didn't even bOtheRlifting me up in the first half of the season). It was liKe doING penance, or atONing for some unkown original sin. BuT I only had tHis pain and agony six months of thE yeaR, if you don't count the remorse during the off seAson.

Anyway, in about 1977 I was transferred to northern New Joysey (actually a reaL beautiful place, but I digRess). At that time I was just starting tO watch pro football, having been more of A college football fan for years. I was thinking maybe I neeDed to have a 'favorite' pro footbALL team. But where to find one THE equaLof my beloved Red Sox, where oh where.

So one day I'm watchIng a game on tV bEtween the Eagles and the Giants. I'm just kind of killing time, because neither team is that important to me. And then it happened, right in front of my eyes, "The Miracle of the Meadowlands". Probably the worst conceived play in the history of pro football. The Giants snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. From the jaws???? They practically had to pull it out of the stomach!!

And it came to me, right then and there. Here was a team just as awful as my Red Sox. By becoming a Giant fan I could suffer all year LONG. It was kinD of An epiphanY (whatever that is).

And that, dear friends, is how I came to be a New York Giants fan.....................[swg]


Regards

Ed




[:D][:D][:D][:o)] - just kidding Ed, you're work has been very impressive and motivational for me. Have a great day!
cheers,


Krump, I believe the CIA has jobs available.[:0][swg]

Ed, the book may be great, but the video narrated by Ben Afflek is spectacular. The music makes it spooky, and the interview snippets with Dennis Leary, Steven Wright, Jeffrey Lyons, Boston's sports writers, and many others, make the whole thing comicly tragic. I just watched it again last night. It allows a non Red Sox fan such as myself to grasp the concept. As a Twins fan I hate the Yankees too, though my venom is not nearly as toxic as a Red Sox fan's.

I checked the standings and the schedules and looked at all 3 teams. This year's race is shaping up to be another interesting one. The Sox still have 6 games left with NY, and the Twins close their season there. You gotta love it when teams like the lowly Royals or Orioles beat the Bronx Bombers. If the Red Sox make it to the World Series, I'll watch and root for them because, one, I like underdogs and longshots, and two, I hate the National League.[swg]
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Posted by philnrunt on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 5:50 AM
Being a Bears fan, I know the bitter taste of, well lets just say i recorded Super Bowl XX because I knew they would fold and I would break something (like my hand, which I did in the late 60's when they lost in OT to the grrrrVikings) because I coudn't watch it live. Drove around listening to rock and roll for 3 hours.
Today, other than Gerlacher, I have no idea who plays for Da Bears, but i still love em. I just get out my old Butkus-Sayers tapes and watch them loose, but in a glorius way.
And the other day a friend told me he saw an add for a machine that adds pops, hisses and cracks to your CD's so they will sound like old LP's. This country has too much money!
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Posted by dharmon on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:34 AM
Ed,

I wanted to pass on a word of thanks for the photo tips. It turns out our little camera does in fact have a macro mode. I was foolin' around with it this evening and it brings out the detail. I'm just about done with the project after tonight's work so I'll post a couple of pics of the horribly oversized dinosaur burning machine then so I don't waste anymore bandwidth. Thanks again.

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Posted by krump on Monday, September 13, 2004 11:51 PM
inspite of Ed's best efforts, and after much time and consideration, I am pleased to say that I have broken the code... the quoted matter below is simply in model railroad code. The entire response is in model rr lingo - you just have to be properly TRAINED to realize that Ed speaks in code - Eagles and Giants are referring to large and / or articulated Steam Engines (just check the internet, dozens of links to these very special engines, of which I know nothing). So, sharing what I have learned, this topic is appropriate to trains - so to be sure... I've cracked the code. Nice try Ed, read on...

QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

Warning - no model railroad content in this pOst whatever!!!

I waNt to telLyou a funny story about how I became a NY (football) Giants fan. I was brought up by my Daddy to be a Red Sox fan. Nothing I can do to change that, it's in my blood. I'VE BEEN uplifted and let down year after year by those guys (except for the years When they didn't even bOtheRlifting me up in the first half of the season). It was liKe doING penance, or atONing for some unkown original sin. BuT I only had tHis pain and agony six months of thE yeaR, if you don't count the remorse during the off seAson.

Anyway, in about 1977 I was transferred to northern New Joysey (actually a reaL beautiful place, but I digRess). At that time I was just starting tO watch pro football, having been more of A college football fan for years. I was thinking maybe I neeDed to have a 'favorite' pro footbALL team. But where to find one THE equaLof my beloved Red Sox, where oh where.

So one day I'm watchIng a game on tV bEtween the Eagles and the Giants. I'm just kind of killing time, because neither team is that important to me. And then it happened, right in front of my eyes, "The Miracle of the Meadowlands". Probably the worst conceived play in the history of pro football. The Giants snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. From the jaws???? They practically had to pull it out of the stomach!!

And it came to me, right then and there. Here was a team just as awful as my Red Sox. By becoming a Giant fan I could suffer all year LONG. It was kinD of An epiphanY (whatever that is).

And that, dear friends, is how I came to be a New York Giants fan.....................[swg]


Regards

Ed




[:D][:D][:D][:o)] - just kidding Ed, you're work has been very impressive and motivational for me. Have a great day!
cheers,

cheers, krump

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 13, 2004 11:34 PM
Hi all [:)]

Ed et al [8D]

I have enjoyed reading about the sucks, oh, I mean socks. [;)] Ed, you and I appreciate and have the same type of humor. [;)]

Big Boy [:p]

I really do like this coffee shop and enjoy "meeting" everyone here. Some of them even talk to me on AIM. [;)] This is a good place, with good people. [^]
In Ed's thread, about returning to to see comments and other posts in a thread, you could see many of our coffee clubbers commenting there too. It does become "family like" and we all look forward to reading each others comments and seeing the pictures they have taken and share with us.

I receive regular mail and phone calls from other forum members as well as emails. That is special and rewarding that other members think so highly of me. And of course I think highly of them also. I believe we all have expressed concern over our friends in Florida and have worried and prayed for them. Our "family" contuines to grow and that is good. As time goes on more and more of them will be able to meet in person and enjoy more personal friendships. I, and others, continue to look forward to that day.

Until then, everyone take care and stay safe.
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Posted by krump on Monday, September 13, 2004 11:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by der5997

8D]
QUOTE: John:
ameliorated What in the world is that? Is it a real word?

What in the world it is is English (rather than American?)[;)] The Oxford Dictionary says it's a verb, transitive and intransitive, to make or become better[:p] So my mother was a school teacher, just shoot me[:D]

I like to think that AMELIORATED, is what we put up with everyday from our daughter Amelia, age 7. When she Ameliaorates things we all laugh at her creativity and playful child like perspective. Truly fun to watch her in action.

Dave9999 - God Bess You my friend - safe travels as you travel to safety. You are in our prayers.

der5997 - things are ALWAYS found in the last place you look [^][^][^][:D], or maybe that's just in my world[V], sometimes the hunt goes on for months, and if not found, I admit defeat ... and buy another one...[:0]

emeraldisle - how about sending me an email, I'd appreciate hearing from you[:)]

mocha please...and a round for all of the coffee crowd

cheers,

cheers, krump

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 13, 2004 11:11 PM
QUOTE: [ from der5997]
Now, sports fans, here's an offer. Both Mrs. der and I are carriers of a never fail sports virus. Whatever team or player, we get interested in immediately goes belly up. We have seen this happen so many times that we can't watch much sport on TV, and never go to actual live games!
So here's the offer. For a considerable fee "to be negotiated", we can be persuaded to become interested in the rival team of your choice[}:)] Rates rise as the level of interest required increases[:0]
Critical moments clause will include a per minute surcharge.[oX)]

Oooh, score another obscure smilie[:p]





I'd like to take you up on that !!!! Me and Big_Boy JR. would like you to take a sudden interest in the GREEN BAY PACKERS!!!!!!!

I won't ask on Big_Boy seniors behalf 'cause he bled out all his purple years ago.[;)]

Junior made some kick butt homemade chocolate chip cookies tonight[C=:-)][C=:-)]--are those payment enough???
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Monday, September 13, 2004 10:48 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

Big_Boy_4005

Kind of fitting that you got the first post on page 100 after starting the thread!!!



Thanks Ed, this is now the most posted to active topic on all of trains.com.

I want to thank everyone who has posted here and given it the QUALITY that I envisioned back at the start. This "place" really has taken on the flavor of a small town coffee shop where the locals gather to be social and talk about anything and everything. People from all over the world come here and make friends. This is the greatest hobby in the world!!![^][8D]
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Posted by der5997 on Monday, September 13, 2004 9:08 PM
TEFFY: Thanks for passing on Fergie's message by phone this evening. I got to see him in his mobile workshop[:D]moored in Sheet Harbour this afternoon. Very pleasant visit. His ship has three Bombardier locomotive engines as the prime movers.[8D]
QUOTE: John:
ameliorated What in the world is that? Is it a real word?

What in the world it is is English (rather than American?)[;)] The Oxford Dictionary says it's a verb, transitive and intransitive, to make or become better[:p] So my mother was a school teacher, just shoot me[:D]

QUOTE: As far as the pictures being the last place that you looked - why would you keep looking after you found them?

Ah! but that's why the smilie in the original post at that point (page 97)
QUOTE: I do know that if they turn up, it will be 1) too late, and 2) in the last place I looked[:D][banghead]

As it turned out, it was too late to do quickly what I wanted to do (post a photo of a twisted tie on the NAR for Ed.), and yes they were itlpIl.

Now, sports fans, here's an offer. Both Mrs. der and I are carriers of a never fail sports virus. Whatever team or player, we get interested in immediately goes belly up. We have seen this happen so many times that we can't watch much sport on TV, and never go to actual live games!
So here's the offer. For a considerable fee "to be negotiated", we can be persuaded to become interested in the rival team of your choice[}:)] Rates rise as the level of interest required increases[:0]
Critical moments clause will include a per minute surcharge.[oX)]

Oooh, score another obscure smilie[:p]

dharmon:
QUOTE: Ahh so that's the story. I used to go to Bellaire Roundhouse when I was a kid. I spent alot of money (well to a kid) there, but I agree, I never felt "at home" there, probably because I was a kid. It seemed that I was disturbing them to ask a question that I should obviously know.

Sounds like Roundhouse Sales in Edmonton, Alberta. When it was one of our LHSs we dreaded going for just those kinds of reasons. Trouble was, they always had the best stock, and the hard to find stuff. You sort of had to know exactly what you wanted, or you we treated like dirt. Odd way to run a business I always thought.

Ed
QUOTE: You're obviously way beyond Wiring 101.
Maybe, but it's not a pretty sight. I never seem to be able to put wires in neat bundles and rows. And try as I might, I don't get half the labels on that I should, and those that are there may mean something at the time, but, as I'm finding now, they don't give the information I really need as I try to sort out the rats nest under the layout[}:)]

Early start tomorrow for a trip to town. Picking up 2 decoders (one a stationary to work my reversing loop polarities) among other things.

Still thinking of all in Ivan's path. Our prayers are with you.

Goodnight all, God Bless.

"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.

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Posted by egmurphy on Monday, September 13, 2004 8:38 PM
QUOTE: I quit da Bums when they went west.


One of my Aunts draped her tv in black and gave up watching baseball on tv when that happened. She never forgave them.
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Posted by fec153 on Monday, September 13, 2004 8:26 PM
Red Sox's -Big deal. Ya had to be a Dodger fan to wait till next year. I quit da Bums
when they went west. Did you know they used to known as the Robins?
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Posted by egmurphy on Monday, September 13, 2004 8:06 PM
QUOTE: Are there similarly bad words for Red Sox fans? I would hate to have this topic deleted for having said "M**kie W**son" or "B***y D**t" or even "Y*****s".


Yeah, it's "Bill Buckner". But B***ky D**t comes a close second!!!


QUOTE: Have you ever seen the documentry "The Curse Of The Bambino". I saw it last year and I absolutely cracked up. Until then I never understood the what it meant to be a Red Sox fan. You have my sympathy.


Didn't see the film but I've got the book!

I don't normally do this, but since you brought the subject up I want to quote a few lines from the book to give our viewers some idea of the true meaning of the Curse of the Bambino.

"One begins to see at last that the true function of the Red Sox may not be to win but to provide New England authors with a theme, now that guilt and whaling have gone out of style."

Peter Gammons (the great sportswriter) remembers, "The last time my brother, Ned, and I spoke to our father before he died in 1981, he said to us, 'The Red Sox will win in your lifetime.' "

And, speaking of the Billy Buckner error that cost the Sox the '86 series,...

In this spirit, more than a few infants were jostled awake and snatched from cribs in the midnight hour when the Sox were one strike away in 1986. Sox fans actually held these children in front of television sets as if they were to be absolved of original sin. The babies instead were baptized into the fold of the long-suffering and cried themselves back to sleep, along with their parents, after the hideous, unthinkable Game 6 defeat.


Whew, tough to relieve that moment again. But as a Red Sox fan i'm sure I'll have other moments even more hideous and unthinkable to remember............. [;)] [:O]



By the way, it's a great book. I got mine used, though Amazon, for a few bucks. well worth it for the read.



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Posted by egmurphy on Monday, September 13, 2004 7:42 PM
Warning - no model railroad content in this post whatever!!!

I want to tell you a funny story about how I became a NY (football) Giants fan. I was brought up by my Daddy to be a Red Sox fan. Nothing I can do to change that, it's in my blood. I've been uplifted and let down year after year by those guys (except for the years when they didn't even bother lifting me up in the first half of the season). It was like doing penance, or atoning for some unkown original sin. But I only had this pain and agony six months of the year, if you don't count the remorse during the off season.

Anyway, in about 1977 I was transferred to northern New Joysey (actually a real beautiful place, but I digress). At that time I was just starting to watch pro football, having been more of a college football fan for years. I was thinking maybe I needed to have a 'favorite' pro football team. But where to find one the equal of my beloved Red Sox, where oh where.

So one day I'm watching a game on tv between the Eagles and the Giants. I'm just kind of killing time, because neither team is that important to me. And then it happened, right in front of my eyes, "The Miracle of the Meadowlands". Probably the worst conceived play in the history of pro football. The Giants snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. From the jaws???? They practically had to pull it out of the stomach!!

And it came to me, right then and there. Here was a team just as awful as my Red Sox. By becoming a Giant fan I could suffer all year long. It was kind of an epiphany (whatever that is).

And that, dear friends, is how I came to be a New York Giants fan.....................[swg]


Regards

Ed


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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Monday, September 13, 2004 7:40 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

QUOTE: They are fast becoming the Red Sox of football.


Hey, watch it there. It's bad enough I've had to suffer all my life as a Red Sucks Sox fan [banghead] without people bringing it up all the time. [(-D] Besides, they've changed their ways. No autumn fold this year!!! No sirree. About 18 games left and we're still only 3-1/2 behind NY. Did you see those guys win 10 straight and 25 of 30?? Made me proud, they did. [:D]

Ed
(proud citizen of Red Sox Nation) [tup] [yeah]





Ed, it seems like every time I say Red Sox around here, another fan turns up. The last time it was Bergie.

The other day, someone posted a topic with profanity in it, and Bergie had to delete it. We all know George Carlin's 7 words that you can't say on television. Are there similarly bad words for Red Sox fans? I would hate to have this topic deleted for having said "M**kie W**son" or "B***y D**t" or even "Y*****s".

Have you ever seen the documentry "The Curse Of The Bambino". I saw it last year and I absolutely cracked up. Until then I never understood the what it meant to be a Red Sox fan. You have my sympathy.

So, it looks like the Sox are going to make the playoffs again. Oh well, maybe next year.[swg]
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Posted by tomwatkins on Monday, September 13, 2004 7:38 PM
Good evening Everybody,
Well, the trip to Chattanooga didn't come off. Actually it did, just without me. Our water heater, which is only 7 months old, decided to stop heating water yesterday evening. So I spent the morning waiting for the plumber instead. Bummer! Oh well, life goes on. It's fixed, it was under warranty, the plumber said he was sorry for the trouble. That's as much as you can ask for.

Fla. Phil, they all ring bells with me. Good groups, good music. I think the Kingston Trio was and is my favorite from that period and type of music, though.

Dave, sound to me like leaving is the best idea. Hopefully the looters, if any, will be shot in the street before they can do any damage. When Opal came inland in '95, she came right through here. spinning off tornados as she went. There wasn't any damage to any of the houses right around here, but lots of trees went down. That wasn't fun. Like you, I'd much rather be drinking a Hurricane than be dealing with one.

Ed, I tend to agree with you. We probably shouldn't go there. It would be an easy way to upset people, make them mad, and possibly spoil something nice. I'd hate to see that happen.

Tomorrow, baring anything unforseen, I'm going to drive down to Kennesaw to one of my LHS's. It's only about 2 hrs. away. Just for the fun of it.

Have a great evening everybody, and stay safe,
Tom
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Posted by fec153 on Monday, September 13, 2004 7:13 PM
Ed- thanks for your input re-a modeler. I'll can the pol jokes. You're right again.
TEFFY- May I join the singing group? Sang bass in h.s.. Also at sing-a-long lounge
in Miami. How about Amos&Andy? Inner Sanctum? Remember them?
Phil
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 13, 2004 7:10 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

QUOTE: Eagles won that makes for a rotten Monday. A cowboy fan in Philly.


What makes it even worse is that they beat the Giants. [:(]


A Giants Fan south of the border.


Ed


Ed - sorry. I feel your pain.
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Posted by egmurphy on Monday, September 13, 2004 7:00 PM
Big_Boy_4005

Kind of fitting that you got the first post on page 100 after starting the thread!!!


Chris

Do you mean the email through the MR Forum, or your regular email?

More later.

Ed
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 13, 2004 6:25 PM
Ed:
The problem with e-mailing you the track plan is that the Outlook express thing on this computer won't work either!!![#oops][C):-)]

Nothin' good happened today, saw a 1955 or '56 Chevy go by, but I don't care for Chevys, so that didn't matter[;)][:D]

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