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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:14 PM

Anatomy of a ditto tree.

Trainfreak409 posted the original article about the Jawn Henry way back on page 2.

Pc quoted it.

soumodeler made the first ditto on page 2.

I made the 2nd ditto.

Derrick made the 3rd ditto on page 18.

I made the 4th ditto on page 18.

Derrick quoted.

Hoople made the 5th ditto on page 18.

Defruif made the 6th ditto on page 19.

Derrick made the 7th ditto on page 19.

Dekruif asked who's next.

Derrick made the 8th ditto on page 21.

Hoople made the 9th and 10th ditto's on page 22.

Hoople made the 11th and 12th ditto's on page 23.

Derrick made the 13th ditto on page 23, using 14 ditto's.

I said enough with the ditto tree.

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Posted by pcarrell on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:13 AM
 Derrick Moore wrote:

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
Enough with the ditto tree already!

Okay, I'm goodBig Smile [:D]

It's a good thing you didn't say "Ditto"! Blindfold [X-)]

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Posted by pcarrell on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:10 AM
 der5997 wrote:

PC:

You all realize that Scott is going to go down in history as the originator of the "Ditto Tree"!
…Not so fast there, who was it that dittoed his ditto, thus making a “tree”…hm….Whistling [:-^]

You're right, it was soulmodeler that did the first ditto, wasn't it?

EDIT: I can't find the start of the dito tree.  The first thing I find is on page 19.  I wonder where it went.

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Posted by grayfox1119 on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:30 AM

Good morning everyone, 29F here this morning in Cherry Valley, Ma, with winds blowing at 25 mph, giving us a wind chill temp of 17F (-11C). Skies are clear, but white out snow flurries are forecasted for later this afternoon.

The U.S. Weather prelim. data is out for 2006, the average temp was 55F, making this the warmest year ever since records were kept (1895), and 2.5F higher than 2005 average. Scientist now ALL agree, finally, that all this rise is NOT due to natural, cyclical events, but due in large part to humans. Are you surprised???Shock [:O]

JEFF: THANK YOU, I was getting dizzy and almost fell out of the ditto tree!!

LEE: Congratulations on your promo to E7!!!!!!! Wow!! [wow]Bow [bow]

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Posted by Derrick Moore on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:22 AM

 ModelTrainLover wrote:
1-800-ditiojack

Is that a real phone number?

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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:20 AM
1-800-ditiojack
Maine Central rules! Lewiston High School Swimteam nickname: Loco Colby
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Posted by Derrick Moore on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:16 AM

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
Enough with the ditto tree already!

Okay, I'm goodBig Smile [:D]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:10 AM
Enough with the ditto tree already!

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Posted by Derrick Moore on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:05 AM
 Hoople wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 dekruif wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 dekruif wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 soumodeler wrote:
 pcarrell wrote:
 TrainFreak409 wrote:

Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...

Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper.

Mischief [:-,] Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion.

Sign - Ditto [#ditto] 

You are not alone there!Tongue [:P] 

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]
Just for the heck of it...
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Why not 
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

I guess I'll join in

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by Attaboy on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:53 AM
Yeah, that's what I had in mind, Ryan.
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Posted by ModelTrainLover on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:50 AM
I know so DitioJacks that can take care to the Ditio Tree!!
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Posted by SilverSpike on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:53 AM

Good morning fellers!

Chloe set me up a bowl of Kashi Go-Lean Crunch and some fresh blueberries. Oh, and a tall cup of fresh JOE! Thanks!

You know, as I drive into work every morning the sunrise is always behind me, and as I get to the top of the first high hill out of the neighborhood I can see the first glimmer of light peaking over the horizon. The orange, ochre, and red hues are just spectacular. Sunrises and sunsets are one of my favorite photo opportunities too.

And now for today's weather forecast here in the Piedmont...

 No snow here, but in the mountains around Asheville they got some last night I heard!

Der John, it is amazing how many people speed around school zones, like they are in complete oblivion of their surrounds.

Congratulations Lee!

Hey Attaboy, how about this for the ditto tree....

 

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Posted by Attaboy on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:53 AM

I have something for the ditto tree

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Posted by Paul W. Beverung on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:48 AM

Lee: OUTSTANDING! Now if you get the promotion that's more money, which equals more MRR stuff. Have you been on any interesrting boats lately? I guess that the shipping season is winding down now. Altho, with the mild weather it may not wind down at all. The new Mac won't get to do it's thing this winter. I know that the crew was looking forward to showing there stuff.

It's time to punch in so I'll be back later.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:22 AM
Lee: Congratulations on the nomination.

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Posted by LSWrr on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:25 AM

Good morning all,

Everything on my tab today,

Yesterday I received the nomination for Coast Guardsman of the year.  Between now and May I'll be competing against almost 45,000 service members for the Enlisted Person of the Year.  I doubt I get it considering the competition is pretty tight, but I feel pretty good about getting the nomination. If I do win, I get a field promotion to E7.  Wahoo!

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Posted by wetidlerjr on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:25 AM

Good morning ! from Indiana. Big Smile [:D]

01-10-07

Clown [:o)]

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Near a cornfield in Indiana...

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:58 AM

Alright guys, that's enough with the ditto tree already.

Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye. Today I'll be having the bacon and eggs.

Today's Weather for:  
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      1/10/2007

Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23
 
Wind Chill41°F
Humidity36%
Dew Point21°F
 
So Far Today
High46°F
Low45°F
Rain0.00"
Rain Rate0.00"/h
Gust9mph ENE
 
High: 59 °F
Low: 34 °F

Today  High: 62    Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.  

Tonight  Low: 45    Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.

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Posted by Hoople on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 10:22 PM
 Hoople wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 dekruif wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 dekruif wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 soumodeler wrote:
 pcarrell wrote:
 TrainFreak409 wrote:

Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...

Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper.

Mischief [:-,] Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion.

Sign - Ditto [#ditto] 

You are not alone there!Tongue [:P] 

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]
Just for the heck of it...
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Why not 
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

I guess I'll join in

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by Hoople on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 10:20 PM
 Hoople wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 dekruif wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 dekruif wrote:
 Hoople wrote:
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 Derrick Moore wrote:
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 soumodeler wrote:
 pcarrell wrote:
 TrainFreak409 wrote:

Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...

Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper.

Mischief [:-,] Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion.

Sign - Ditto [#ditto] 

You are not alone there!Tongue [:P] 

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]
Just for the heck of it...
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Why not 
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

I guess I'll join in

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 10:11 PM
Time for me to shut down. I've had a busy day today.

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Posted by Cox 47 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 9:31 PM
Evening All...Just a fast drop in before headin to bed...Its been a slow day around here...Sallie has surgery onher arm wedesday AM....You all have a good night....Jerry
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Posted by der5997 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 8:40 PM

Good evening everybody: Chloe I’ll have a medium JR Regular please, and a slice of the “sweetened with Splenda®” pumpkin pie that’s left over in back of the fridge. Thanks RT!

 

JR: …What colours are you using now for the “urban river”? Any dark greens in there with the browns? I find the shading off into deeper water the trickiest to get right…I’m enjoying seeing acres of wood and foam slowly disappearing in favour of more realistic scenes.  What fascinates me is the way parts of scenes, while staying within the original design concept, sort of “evolve” into shapes and spaces that were never planned in detail, but just seem to “come together” to be better than my mental image when I planned the layout.  I got my two bits of sea poured this afternoon; the cove has turned out to be quite a turbulent sea.  All far too soft to fiddle with yet, but colouring the wavy plaster to show the colours of the sea floor is going to be interesting.  I’ve never used poured plastic “water”, and don’t like the idea for moving bodies of water anyway.  I go for plaster with some “motion” to it, paint that, and add gloss medium in several coats, working in texture.  For this cove, there will be breakers, I’ve got some WS Flex Paste for that.  I’m toying with the idea of chucking one of those mini whisks into the power drill, and beating some air into the Flex Paste to get a foam to represent spray. 

 

Ryan: Good story about the school crossing guard.  The fines for speeding in school zones in Nova Scotia have just doubled!  Feels a bit like the later stages of a Monopoly game. (Not that I intend to make a habit of speeding in school zones, but our local one is sometimes difficult to remember as the schools to which it refers are off the road, and so not “there” as a reminder.  No crossing guards anywhere either.

 

Jeremy: Welcome back, January is a third over already, so you are getting your wish, I guess!  I have a mortgage to renew before March 1st., so am not wanting the time to rush too much.

 

Jeff:  Sign - Ditto [#ditto] your

Thank God there wasn't a derailment,
…that would have been far worse.

 

PC:

You all realize that Scott is going to go down in history as the originator of the "Ditto Tree"!
…Not so fast there, who was it that dittoed his ditto, thus making a “tree”…hm….Whistling [:-^]

 

Dick:

Do you also realize that all those guys who still have dial up service, i.e Der John, etc.  are screaming at you guys for the time it takes to download all the features?
…Well actually Dick it’s not the trees and so on that take the time, it’s the large file size photos.  Folks, if you can spare a thought for dial-up users, and take the time to adjust the size of your photo files before uploading to photobucket or whoever, it would be a great favour.  Those sites now accommodate quite large files, on the assumption that any civilized user is on high speed by now.  We less than civilized yobs who have Aliant as their isp have to suffer.  Dick, it’s Aliant I’m screaming at. “Aliant, Here For You” NOT

 

Rant over, I’d better finish off that pie and get out of here.

Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort (remembering the families involved in those two tragedies Dick mentioned), and peace.Angel [angel]

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 8:38 PM

There are 55 dittos in Scott's ditto tree.

Just thought y'all'd like to know.

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Posted by Hoople on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 8:08 PM
 soumodeler wrote:
 SilverSpike wrote:

 pcarrell wrote:
You all realize that Scott is going to go down in history as the originator of the "Ditto Tree"!

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto] 

OK, I'm done now.
but wait, theres more!
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]
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Posted by soumodeler on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 7:57 PM
 SilverSpike wrote:

 pcarrell wrote:
You all realize that Scott is going to go down in history as the originator of the "Ditto Tree"!

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sign - Ditto [#ditto] 

OK, I'm done now.
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Posted by rtraincollector on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 7:37 PM
You also remember you all wanted elliot's name at the top by keep hitting reply to links without it just removes his name from the top of the post and all your voting to do it just goes down the drain

Life's hard, even harder if your stupid  John Wayne

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Posted by grayfox1119 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 7:00 PM
Do you also realize that all those guys who still have dial up service, i.e Der John, etc.  are screaming at you guys for the time it takes to download all the features? I have Hi-speed Cable, no big deal...but I hear a bunch of guys and gals outside the Diner ready to string up a few people inside.
Dick If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got!! Learn from the mistakes of others, trust me........you can't live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself, I tried !! Picture album at :http://www.railimages.com/gallery/dickjubinville Picture album at:http://community.webshots.com/user/dickj19 local weather www.weatherlink.com/user/grayfox1119
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Posted by SilverSpike on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 6:47 PM

 pcarrell wrote:
You all realize that Scott is going to go down in history as the originator of the "Ditto Tree"!

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

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Posted by pcarrell on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 6:46 PM
You all realize that Scott is going to go down in history as the originator of the "Ditto Tree"!
Philip

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