Tom:
Jimmy Carter talked about "all" - black gold.....
Gotta love those accents!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Southern people have never learned how to speak proper english. I once had friends who lived down in Louisiana who I thought spoke rather funny. I don't know were they are today and I kind of miss them!
Ray
grampaw pettibone A salesman was driving through a small Texas town a few weeks ago and was taking in the scenery. In front of a church, he saw a manger scene. As he was admiring it, he noticed that three of the figures were wearing fire helmets. This bothered him no end, and he decided that he would eat lunch at the diner (!) and ask somebody about it. The waitress brought him a glass of water, and he asked her why the three figures were decked out in fire helmets. She advised him that he was totally ignorant of the bible, which plainly stated that the three wise men came from afar. Get it? A far. They were wearing far helmets. It's a joke son.
A salesman was driving through a small Texas town a few weeks ago and was taking in the scenery. In front of a church, he saw a manger scene. As he was admiring it, he noticed that three of the figures were wearing fire helmets. This bothered him no end, and he decided that he would eat lunch at the diner (!) and ask somebody about it. The waitress brought him a glass of water, and he asked her why the three figures were decked out in fire helmets. She advised him that he was totally ignorant of the bible, which plainly stated that the three wise men came from afar.
Get it? A far. They were wearing far helmets.
It's a joke son.
kinda like seeing a bar fixin to run from a far about to eat far away anything that gets in its way cause he recons it's cooked hot & he's hungry
PL
Gee, I thought that all this time, it was northerners who talked funny: not us southerners. You mean to tell me I've heard wrong all my 56 years?!?!
Oh well, on to our Saturday Night Pizza Fest:
1. Anchovie
2. Cheese w/extra cheese
3. Goetta
5. Hawaiian
6. Pepperoni/mushroom
7. Supreme
8. Italian sausage calzones
Well, we set a record here in Louisville today: our new high is 71 degrees for this date. Winds gusted to 39 mph. Now, wonder what tomorrow will bring us.
cherokee woman Gee, I thought that all this time, it was northerners who talked funny: not us southerners. You mean to tell me I've heard wrong all my 56 years?!?! Oh well, on to our Saturday Night Pizza Fest: 1. Anchovie 2. Cheese w/extra cheese 3. Goetta 5. Hawaiian 6. Pepperoni/mushroom 7. Supreme 8. Italian sausage calzones Well, we set a record here in Louisville today: our new high is 71 degrees for this date. Winds gusted to 39 mph. Now, wonder what tomorrow will bring us.
Supper tonight--yours sounds good, but my wife would not go for it. We will have left over prime rib roast (she will eat that with me, though she prefers chicken, lamb, bacon (not ham), and fish).
Johnny
Don't know if we set a record high today but it was nice outside.The wind has really picked up right now.Cw thanks for the pizza.met some old friends and made new friends.Please also welcome our great nephew Ean into the world.he weighed 9lbs 3 oz and was 21 inches long.Mamma and family doing fine.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
I found a Mudchicken joke: After surveying property along the New Hampshire and Maine border, some engineers decided the boundaries needed to be changed. So they stopped to tell a farmer that he was no longer in Maine but in New Hampshire. "Good," said the farmer. "I couldn't take another one of those Maine winters." *
And for Willy and me: "Just keep driving and when something changes, you know you are out of Nebraska!"*
Off to do mischief....
*Readers Digest
Good Sunday morning, everyone. After setting a high temp for 12/27 yesterday, we're back down to 38 degrees this morning.
Johnny, your supper for last night sounds pretty good.
Mookie, got any more railroad jokes? I like them. (Maybe you and I can get into mischief together, what do you think?)
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider and hot water for tea are ready. On the counter this morning: cinnamon rolls, bagels, bear claws, and muffins.
You all have a very good morning, be careful going out today (holiday travelers returning home, you know) , and I'll see you all later.
morning
mother nature is still blowing here in nw ohio.tempratures are suppossed to be back to normal readings for the week .CW thanks for breakfast.
Good morning! I've been up for roughly an hour, and right now our temp here in Sioux Falls is roughly 18 degrees. It's supposed to warm up here to about 32 degrees this afternoon, quite a nice change compared to what it was like here a full week ago.
I had three over-ripe bananas on my kitchen counter last night, so I made myself a loaf of banana nut bread with two of them. The recipe that I used was once used by dining car chefs of the Northern Pacific Railway. I am letting it age a few days before I slice into it to eat it, but if anyone is interested here is the recipe:
1/3 C. shortening, 2/3 C. sugar, 2 eggs, 1 & 3/4 C. sifted flour, 2 & 3/4 tsp. baking powder, 1 C. mashed bananas, 1/2 c. chopped English walnuts, 1/2 tsp salt.*
*Salt is optional, and I don't use it in anything when I am baking.
Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Stir together flour, salt and baking powder. Add to creamed mixture alternately with mashed bananas, blending well with each addition. Stir in walnuts. Pour mixture into a well-greased 9" x 5" loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes. Remove from pan, cool completely on rack. Wrap and store overnight for full flavor. Makes 1 loaf.
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
"There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild, majestic mountains stood alone against the sun, long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the green, dark forest was too silent to be real." -Gordon Lightfoot
Ray - that sounds good! Mom didn't like the price of bananas here last night, so we didn't get any, though.
Windy here today - starting to hear many wind related calls on the scanner.
Had to come to work to let a technician in. Then it's off for a little shopping and then back home. DIL acquired a flag that flew aboard AF1 on the recent mission to the desert and I can't find a frame for it, so I gotta build one.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Larry, sounds like you've got a real good souvenir there! We've got sunshine here, now; so maybe we'll make it to the projected high of 49 this afternoon!
For our Sunday Dinner today:
Roast beef w/green beans, mashed taters & brown gravy, corn, your choice of cole slaw or garden salad, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/plenty of butter, and, for dessert, your choice of chocolate cake w/chocolate icing and homemade/baked apple cobbler w/ice cream (whatever flavor you want, that is in the freezer).
Enjoy your afternoon and your dinner, and take care.
Good afternoon everyone. (Grabs plate of roast beef with green bean, mashed potatoes and cole slaw )
By the way, did any of you experience problems surfing the Web today? Around 7:00 am PST his morning, I was having trouble accessing many web sites (they were either loading slowly or sometimes not at all. ). I think someone online said there may have been an Internet "backbone" problem causing the slow web surfing....
CW - It's a unique place to know someone....
Temps dropped 20 degrees in 4 hours, between 11 and 3. Recorded my highest wind gust ever at 36 mph. I'm rather sheltered from the wind here, so it's gotta be worse "up top".
Loaded up one of those digital picture frames for Mom today - she got it from son & DIL, so it's loaded up with pictures of my granddaughter. Only pictures we have right now of my grandson are ultrasounds....
Still fighting with a cold. Yuck. This one just doesn't want to give up.
On accents - I read once where the four leads in a southern-based movie ("Fried Green Tomatoes"?) all had different accents, which probably wouldn't be an accurate portrayal.
I've heard more that once that us northerners talk to fast.
Which reminds me of the joke involving a letter to the family in which the writer states that so-and-so doesn't hear so well, so he'll type slow.....
afternoon
well the browns and lions went O-fers today.lots of surprises in games today too.Cw thanks for supper.Going to get cleaned up for work tonight.
Joe
Good afternoon, all. It warmed up into the low forties here today, so the snow is beginning to melt. I was able to get thin ice off the sidewalk so it will not be so dangerous for passersby.
CW, thanks for the lunch.
Larry, yes, some people who never learned the proper accent do talk fast. Of course, now, I have to ask many people to slow down, especially in telephone conversations. I think that our college treasurer was from Iowa; I know he went to Coe College. One day, I commented to the college president's son (born in Southwest Virginia) that I wondered how the treasurer was able to think fast enough to talk that fast. The response was to the effect that perhaps he didn't think that fast. He was a good treasurer, though.
SactoGuy188By the way, did any of you experience problems surfing the Web today? Around 7:00 am PST his morning, I was having trouble accessing many web sites (they were either loading slowly or sometimes not at all. ). I think someone online said there may have been an Internet "backbone" problem causing the slow web surfing....
I found the source of this problem based on this article:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/28/the-tubes-are-clogged/
Apparently, Level 3 Communications, one of the largest Internet "backbone" providers in the world, experienced a major failure of its network and that's why web surfing was so slow today. But the problem seemed to have cleared up and things are running much better now.
Gotta love Tech Crunch
RJ
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Good Monday morning, everybody. We have a temp of 31 degrees this morning. Supposed to have sun, and get up to 54 for a high today. I hope you all had a very nice Sunday afternoon. Ours was definitely quiet.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider and hot water for tea are ready.
On the warmer bar this morning: bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, toast, gravy w/bits of sausage in it, and homemade buttermilk biscuits, bagels and bear claws.
You all have a good morning, and if you have to go back to work today, please be careful, and take care.
good morning
one down 2 days to go.Cw thanks for breakfast.sounds like a decent day today for the end of december.Time for a nap. I'm sure matt will be running trains when I wake up.
Good morning everyone. (Grabs big mug of coffee and a couple of bear claws)
While it's not as cold as recently, it's still quite cool in the early morning (38.7 °F. as I type this). I got myself yesterday a new pair of running shoes (my old pair was wearing out. ).
Mookie I found a Mudchicken joke: After surveying property along the New Hampshire and Maine border, some engineers decided the boundaries needed to be changed. So they stopped to tell a farmer that he was no longer in Maine but in New Hampshire. "Good," said the farmer. "I couldn't take another one of those Maine winters." Off to do mischief.... *Readers Digest
I found a Mudchicken joke: After surveying property along the New Hampshire and Maine border, some engineers decided the boundaries needed to be changed. So they stopped to tell a farmer that he was no longer in Maine but in New Hampshire. "Good," said the farmer. "I couldn't take another one of those Maine winters."
(Button pushing Engineers making boundary decisions is funnier than the punchline )
Beautiful sunny day here in central Indiana.....A perfect day to get my truck washed. High to be around 49.
Quentin
Well, just talked with Sarah. She's at the Philly airport, waiting for them to call them to board the plane for Louisville. Her flight is due in about 2:51.
For our other two meals today, I'm making Italian spaghetti w/meatballs and baking some garlic bread. Made a early morning trip to the grocery, for fresh lettuce, purple cabbage, onion, carrots, etc., for garden salad to go with the spaghetti. Will be going on the warmer bar in about 15 minutes, so it'll be ready for you all.
Walking from the bustop, on my way home from the store, heard a train bell, then heard the train horn. Looked back, and saw a couple of NS engines heading south; didn't see it when I got up towards the house, where I cross the street, so guess it must have went southwest. Rats: I could have gotten to see what it had coupled to the engines. Maybe I'll have beter luck next time.
Everyone have a good afternoon, and see you all later.
Good day and thanks for the meal. At present, 60 and wet in Carolina on the way to a mid 60s thing. Hopefully the rain has ended, but it is calling for it to end around 3PM. Everybody stay safe
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Don't feel bad - when I left to go south on the 20th, it was snowing and I'd measured 16" of snow standing in the back yard.
It's pretty much all gone today....
well matt and I went out today.The maw engine 16(former IC) is grounded in the maw yard after its derailment last week.Don't know if its going to run again or not.We got to see 2 csx employees spot weld in my old neighboorhood.We also got to see the q 90(produce train) go east.he was stuck behind a powder river coal train.Dispatcher was giving slow orders for eastbounds and westbounds.Cw did you talk to mamma?shes making spaghetti as well!! Time to get things for work tonight.
Good afternoon to all. Our temperature rose from the high twenties to the low forties today--enough to melt some of the snow in the street, which is four feet out from the curb. I hope another snowplow does not come by before school takes up again (elementary school down the street and junior high school around the corner; its big yard is just outside our backyard) and throw that snow up onto the sidewalk and driveway. We expect more snow New Year's Day--a good day to stay home.
Mookie, I take it you are in road service. Are you C or E?
Deggesty. Mookie, I take it you are in road service. Are you C or E? Johnny
In real life I am a 65 year old Great Grandmother-to-be, (which will be news to most of the diner patrons).. In the 50's and 60's I would have killed to be in ops with the now BNSF railroad - but was the wrong gender.
So I am going to specify that in my next life - I will be born wearing bib overalls and carrying a grip!
And The Driver is my 65 year old, sweetest husband in the world, who drives me to train watch, usually on weekends when he is available. (He is still employed!) I think some people have thought that "The Driver" is a hired driver, young boyfriend or non-existant. He is very real - and a few people on the forum have even met him.
So your comment delights and pleases me - if only because maybe I am taken seriously just a little when it comes to railroading as a hobby.
Jen
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