Not usually up that late but is Dave picking on us??? On his show Friday night, he named Model Railroading at the Number 1 hobby in America.
BUT...knowing Dave, I'm pretty sure there's a story behind this. Anyone with any insight?
Thanks
Chris
Knowing Letterman, I'm sure it was said with irony.
Nelson
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Dave being Dave. This was one of his random thoughts that I'm sure he found interesting and would get a reaction from the audience. I'm sure his research team found it and Dave just read it.
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csmincemoyer Not usually up that late but is Dave picking on us??? On his show Friday night, he named Model Railroading at the Number 1 hobby in America.
Obviously intended as some sort of a joke (in what context was this statement presented?) for, whereas model railroading was indeed acknowledged as the 2nd most popular hobby in the United States during the mid 1950's (stamp collecting was #1), results of a polling I saw a couple of years ago didn't even have it listed among the top 50 current interests!
CNJ831
Maybe Dave bought a train set for little Harry!
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Sounds to me he, and his writers, see Model Railroading as a putzy hobby for railroad geeks that pretend to be real engineers running around say "chooooo choooooo" all the time. Model Railroading is obviously not veiwed as much of a hobby to them, but more as something to be made fun of. Half of them, however probably actually probably like model railroads but just don't want to be made fun of by the ones who will laugh and make fun of them while pretending to be baseball or basketball or football coaches yelling at the TV all dressed up in their little baseball outfits.
Not meant to insult anyone who is a sports fanatic, obviously those here do not slam someone for their choice of hobbies so you are not the ones the remark was directed at. GO RANGERS! This is their year.
Todd
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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.
wm3798 Maybe Dave bought a train set for little Harry!
Either that, or an intern...
Sometimes an offhand comment is is just an offhand comment just as sometimes a cigar is just a cigar (at least according to Sigmund Freud, but what did he know?).
Man, people read a lot of meaning into the utterly trivial.
That's why I've decided to go into the manufacture of tinfoil hats in multiple scales and become the supplier of choice to the paranoid. I'll become the Apple of metallic headgear. The iHat, an idea whose time has come.
Andre
csmincemoyerNot usually up that late but is Dave picking on us??? On his show Friday night, he named Model Railroading at the Number 1 hobby in America.
It doesn't make any difference to me. It's not going to change my involvement in MRRing one iota. Consequently, I would argue that the #1 "hobby" in America is probably TV watching.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
David who?
Not so many years ago David Letterman's Top 10 list came directly from "the home office in Milwaukee." Could the guys at Walthers be moonlighting as list makers?
Anyway this is not the first time Letterman has picked on model railroading. Remember his bit some years ago on special valentine's day cards? "You May be My Soul Mate, but Touch My Model Railroad and You're Gone." I wasn't watching but the day after he had that bit on TV any number of people who know I am a model railroader just had to tell me about it. Whether my wife's friends called to tell her about it I do not know. I have to admit that's a darn good card.
Dave Nelson
I don't understand.....what scale does this Letterman fellow model in? Isn't late night television dominated by poker?
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csmincemoyer Not usually up that late but is Dave picking on us??? On his show Friday night, he named Model Railroading at the Number 1 hobby in America. BUT...knowing Dave, I'm pretty sure there's a story behind this. Anyone with any insight? Thanks Chris
There's money to be made here. You could always write a screenplay about Dave being involved in model railroading, then wait in his parking lot at 6:30 in the morning for him to show up, and then offer to sell him the rights to your screenplay for a couple of mil.
Alton Junction
andrechapelon Sometimes an offhand comment is is just an offhand comment just as sometimes a cigar is just a cigar (at least according to Sigmund Freud, but what did he know?). Man, people read a lot of meaning into the utterly trivial. That's why I've decided to go into the manufacture of tinfoil hats in multiple scales and become the supplier of choice to the paranoid. I'll become the Apple of metallic headgear. The iHat, an idea whose time has come. Andre
Sign me up for a couple of dozen, Andre!
They'll sell better if they say "Lipton" on them.
Dave
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SteamFreakEither that, or an intern...
Must be good!
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Any way, I wouldn't worry about it, either way. I could care less what other's think of my hobby. I even post pictures of it on my page. If they want to make fun of it, then they are no friend of mine.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
markpierce David who?
Second the motion.
I don't spend time watching late-night supposed-to-be-funnymen. That's my most productive forum time!
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
THAT DOES IT! I'M NEVER WATCHING HIM AGAIN!
Isn't that we're supposed to say? : )
At least not tonight because it's a rerun.
Jim
He's jealous. He had to give up his favorite "hobby." Lots of steam, a few whistles and a nice caboose, but in the end all he had was a roundy-round with an F-unit from a different era.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
He did not say anything bad right? Could it be we are just a little ashamed of our hobby and assume he was making fun of us?
I did not see the show, but from what I read here I see no reason to assume he was making fun of us.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Why do we care what he thinks? If were happy with our hobby, then that's all that matters.
And personally, i'm more than happy (I got most of my track laid yesterday!!!! YES!!!)
We had some friends over for dinner on Saturday night who are quite high up the show biz food chain. They love trains and have an good size garden RR ready to be unpacked after their move. Anyway they asked if I had heard his comments and I had said "no". So as we were running trains in the Train Room they mentioned that they heard through the grape vine that he has developed quite an interest in MRR as it is something his son and him can do in the privacy of their home.
He may have said it has become the number one hobby in America because it is now his Number one hobby. Especially now the interns are off the table. Who knows for sure.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I am fortunate enough not to be acquainted with a person of the name of David Letterman, nor is his show on air where I live. So his opinion on our hobby is of no value or importance to me.
dgwinupandrechapelon Sometimes an offhand comment is is just an offhand comment just as sometimes a cigar is just a cigar (at least according to Sigmund Freud, but what did he know?). Man, people read a lot of meaning into the utterly trivial. That's why I've decided to go into the manufacture of tinfoil hats in multiple scales and become the supplier of choice to the paranoid. I'll become the Apple of metallic headgear. The iHat, an idea whose time has come. Andre Sign me up for a couple of dozen, Andre!
With your metallic headgear you'll be protecting folks against everything from A to Z. Therefore I propose a better, more descriptive name for your aluminum apparel is the AzHat...
John
Twerp: a silly, insignificant person. Fits him well.
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Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
OK, Like I'm still confused I was hoping there were fans of Dave on the board here and could shed some insight on if he was being nice or not. You can usually tell when he's being "mean" (raises his eyebrow or something, Paul will say something stupid) but that didn't happen. It was more like he was actually showing us respect, if that makes any sense. Anywhooo, thought it was cool to here it mentioned.
I wonder if there was an uptick in traffic on the trains.com website this past weekend?
csmincemoyer OK, Like I'm still confused I was hoping there were fans of Dave on the board here and could shed some insight on if he was being nice or not. You can usually tell when he's being "mean" (raises his eyebrow or something, Paul will say something stupid) but that didn't happen. It was more like he was actually showing us respect, if that makes any sense. Anywhooo, thought it was cool to here it mentioned. I wonder if there was an uptick in traffic on the trains.com website this past weekend?
What difference does it make? It's a freaking late night TV show. Who cares?
BATMANSo as we were running trains in the Train Room they mentioned that they heard through the grape vine that he has developed quite an interest in MRR as it is something his son and him can do in the privacy of their home
That reminds me that he was good friends with Tom Snyder, who was a big train guy (Lionel, I think), so maybe that sparked an interest. Not that I really care; I haven't watched him since the late 80's when he stopped being funny because he became obsessed with inheriting the Tonight Show.