Do You support Rule G?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

I guess I'm missing something. Rule G is the LAW, a Federal Regulation (actually several) and the Rule at every railroad. What possible difference is there whether someone supports it or not. Truly a silly question at best. And no, I don't have a beef with Doggy, but perhaps placing brain in gear before depressing keys would be a good idea...

LC

Awwww Geeee Now

Captain Spoil Sport.

Hey, Sweetheart, Turn that Frown upside Down! Come and Join the Fun, without reading out from your book how many laws i have, am, and will end up breaking!

Mr. Serious.. let me see that face...


[:(!] <------------ Don't be like this fool.

[edblysard]

I can vouch for Dan and Kevin, I mean THE SHADOW and his trusty side kick, FADE.

They both sat on the couch, right next to the bar, talking to that nice looking young lady who, ummmm, sells Avon, yeah, thats it, sells Avon...all night long.

Vic made them do the shooters....

By the way, has the zoo called looking for their emu?
I think jim and a bunch of munchkins took off with it on a school bus...

Oh, and the band wants to know if we ever found their drummer....

Last time I saw him, he and that stupid .com dog muppet were chasing the school bus.

[^]Ed

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

I left for the weekend and you all went out and got drunk and disorderly?

Mook

Still getting the beer cans and furniture out of the pool. .........The Holiday Inn will never let us back in......

Rick Gates was designated driver......everyone got home but Jim.....Jhhtrainssprains was last seen with a harem of midgets, a school bus and what appeared to be a large emu........headed to Vegas...still undecided on who to marry.

Kevin and I sat on the couch..honest. It was Vic that kept wanting to do all of the tequila shooters...he MADE us do it...okay maybe we had one but that was...two no more than really...ask Ed......Rix gave us new names....I became shadowy..... and Kevin became Fade.....It was a grat party.....I think.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

I left for the weekend and you all went out and got drunk and disorderly?

Mook

Well, I don't know about disorderly....[8D]
It was a nice banquet, though.

[Mookie]

I left for the weekend and you all went out and got drunk and disorderly?

Mook

[Rick Gates]

QUOTE: Posted: Today, 21:39:28
I guess I'm missing something. Rule G is the LAW, a Federal Regulation (actually several) and the Rule at every railroad. What possible difference is there whether someone supports it or not. Truly a silly question at best. And no, I don't have a beef with Doggy, but perhaps placing brain in gear before depressing keys would be a good idea...

LC

It may seem a "silly" topic to discuss as it is mandated by law and regulation however; the "Tax Stamp Act" was also. Currently, the Supreme Court is hearing argument about removing the words "under God" from the U.S. pledge of allegiance. Discussion of these topics started in smaller forums before reaching the proportions they did. In law school "moot court" is held to hone the skills of would-be lawyers and, to kindle ideas about existing topics. Many, if not most, do not even give a thought one way or the other about trains or any of the particulars of railroading. The discussion of a shared interest, no matter how silly or moot it may seem, is never a waste. It is informative to some, and just plain fun to others. LC, you choose your screen name, and you depressed your keys. I hope you continue to do so. I enjoy your contributions.

[Anonymous]

I guess I'm missing something. Rule G is the LAW, a Federal Regulation (actually several) and the Rule at every railroad. What possible difference is there whether someone supports it or not. Truly a silly question at best. And no, I don't have a beef with Doggy, but perhaps placing brain in gear before depressing keys would be a good idea...

LC

[rixflix]

Yeah Dan, The Doors!!! Roaring into the hot Vietnam night.The commo guys had wired a couple of big Pioneer speakers into a pair of mangled and doorless (hah) conexes and run wires up to our hootch, where we used one guy's big output Kenwood pre-amp, another guy's Akai tape recorder (let's see M-1 was the tube version, and I think M-2 was the solid state, but his was the solid state}, and my widely admired Dual 1019 turntable ( bought at the Vielflecken PX). I would play Jimi's "Red House" or anything from Miles and Coltrane and the Stick Buddies would run for cover. If they were feeling polite they would say, "That ain't music that's, sh......not good music". I had a stick buddy friend though with a lot of Hank Williams stuff and he was always welcome to come over with "Steel Rail Blues". Even us bead wearing Hippies could get into that keening paean to lost love, and we must have worn that track right out of the LP. Hank was the only country artist I could stand until much later in life. Excluding of course Johnny Cash, who I considered to be not a country guy but A Law Unto Himself.
As artillery surveyors, we used to be assigned to artillery units of the ROK's Capitol Division from time to time, triangulating reference points mostly. I don't think Capitol collected enemy ears the way Tiger Division did but these guy's were fun to be around. In the middle of the night you'd zip down at the ****-tube ( if you didn't trip over the dang thing getting there) and watch them practicing martial arts in the moonlight.
All you had to do was mention Hank Williams and you would be surrounded by new friends proffering kemchi and (was it OG?) Korean beer. I tnink it was OG because the guys I knew from Cumberland and Lonacoming Maryland always used to say "Hey, this isn't Old German!!!'. And man did they ever know their Hank. They'd trot out and play his albums, show you their discographies, biographies, pictures and notebooks. When my buddy McGuire from Boston was sent to finish out his tour with the ROK's. we loaded him up with Hank Williams records and wished him well. A couple of months later Bill Hanley (a Pharaoh Sanders fan and my best friend in Nam) and I skated out of some dumb mission or another and visited McGuire for an over-nighter. Well he had the best psychedelic decor I'd ever seen, gigantic Pioneer speakers with The Doors' "The End" pouring out like a big snake and One Major Complaint. The Koreans had him figured as Hank Williams' special messenger and he absolutely hated country music!!! Can't blame him, because New England's industrial base had gone south and in return they got these retro white guys "jest caterwauling". He was probably Southie Irish stock, but despaired with the Brahmins!!! He did respect Korean martial arts, I'd already noticed, so I guess it wasn't just solidarity between Allies that compelled him to play their requests. A special Purgatory, friends.

Shadowy Dan, is there a way to move these e-scribblings over to my War Stories thread and out of the inane Rule G topic? Saving of course all the recent identity reconfigurations. Glad you like Shadowy and Kevin likes Fade..

Rick aka The Grammar Grocer.

[dharmon]

<Doors playing in background> This is the end....

Welcome to Firebase Casey man....home to the shadowy Mr Harmon

[Anonymous]

HOW IS THIS??

[Anonymous]

Your All going to Get black listed, and i'm going to laugh!

Call me Fade... No wait...


Fade

WOW...

i'll even make a picture with my name.

Now As for you Dan, we have a big Problem, you see, i agree with you on a lot of things, but this time you have overdone it by a lot.

There can't be two presidents of CSX. I though I was the president of CSX.

and in case you feel you have to get it..

SHOTGUN!

[rixflix]

Excuse me but I just had to laugh this morning.....or was it yesterday morning?
I was thinking about Viet Nam and dear old LZ Uplift, my alma mater and a sandbag and concertina architectural wonder that the Babylonians would have admired.
This is about the noms de plume or aka's that we take on when in strange situations, such as war or the internet, so naturally I'm off on a tangent from the start!!!
Evening at the LZ seemed boringly routine at the time in 1969, but now seems hilarious!!! At 5PM in monsoon season you could observe us buck naked with soap, toothpaste, shaving gear,etc at hand in perfectly clear sunshine outside our hootches.Then the sky behind the mountains immediately to our west would turn purple and then black. It was like a convertible's top.coming up, at almost the same speed!!! And then the aggressive rain would come down like nobody's business, but you had to hurry your lavations because it would end in about 12 minutes. Then the dust and grime would laugh and take hold again until the next evening's dousing. This nonsense would go on for several weeks.
Oh, when the temperature got into the seventies it was chilly; sweater and field jacket weather.
Then came dinner and whatever night duties you had to pull. It could be pulling on a can of Blue Ribbon, or a jay, or a guitar string, or someone dear's heartstrings by writing home. And then there was guard duty!!!
We had about twenty 1,2 or 3-story sandbag and psp bunkers on the the perimeter. After the barbed wire was dragged across Route 1 at the north and south gates (imagine I-95 being closed every night!!!0 we would prepare for the night. The John Wayne types would test the M-60's during redsplash while the rest us rigged the claymores. The more rabid of the Waynes even brought gloves and spare barrels so they could change out the overheated ones when their ballistic enthusiasm kicked in.
I guess the Machine Gun Murphy's got their spares through the armorer ("Supply, we need a few more PN........'s for my gunslingers up here; Yeah, that's the assembly"} who either was a Duke himself or was a little guy living vicariously by dispensing (homo-erotically?) them to eighteen-year olds every night out of his conex gunshop. The kids all had to squirrel barrels, cleaning kits. private ammo belts, etc.away, just like the Hippies had to hide their NFL (larger but airier) or nerf (more compact but the same $5.00 price) size bags and papers.
A lot of us carried our M-16's around like Bad Seed cousins on a family picnic. They were way too loud and smelled (was it the cordite?) funny and were always in the way when you had to do something. Steel pots and flak jackets were some other pests!!! When I deros'd to the World and turned in my M-16, the same ( or his clone) guy asks me "When's the last time you you cleaned this weapon?" I replied that whenever I got into an FTA mood I liked to run those little oil swabs way up through the works. "I guess you could've fired a round around a corner with this tube but it's been bent a while, want to look?' . he reposted. And in a milli-second I knew where that accident had happenedIII We were coming back on Rte.1 from LZ English with our ration of water in two huge steel tanks strapped and sandbagged on our 5-ton. I had tossed my Colt thing in between the tanks to admire the warren truss we were rolling through. It was French-built, in the spirit of Eifel (railroad engineering genius extraordinaire, Paris tower builder, etc.and if you don't believe me knock MARSEILLES TRANSPORTER into google). Sorry I'm off to Eifel and Stephenson and Roebling and Brunel et al, but those guys could squint into a chasm or estuary or a sheer wall and engineer their asses of!!! Our very own Army Engineers should be in that Pantheon too!!! Here me ASCE? We are a pioneer, tactical outfit of a country. Shift that French reliic of a fractured empire around a bit, send in rome plows, tanks, 175's, troops,....STOP.....we did that in Normandy too, as is well recorded. The cause was different ( and muddled) when I served, A lot of us could see the war's folly, that the enemy was us, and could still fix problems. The Greatest Generation? I dunno, brothers. Let' s Share, Brothers!!!
Anyway, my barrel got bent on that bridge when the driver had to hit the brakes and his load shifted a bit. The two tanks, chains, sandbag floor, and my sorry underminer *** got bounced forward a few inches. Picked up my trusty Red Ryder range rifle and it looked the same. Four months later it's bent. I couldn't have shot a soul if I'd wanted to.
Good thing.
Please stick with me a bit here, but picture future archaeologists puzzling over these objects:::"Here's another Sanyo case...green peanut brittle stuff inside, more evidence that the Sanyo Dynasty was once here?"
Then we would play with our lizard and scorpion bunkermates until dark.
It was a twelve hour deal and the three man bunker crew would usually divide it into 4 hours of watchfulness for each man. However, once the marijuana took hold there were diversions that could keep all of us awake all night. Making clouds into faces and objects was mild fun but hell, civilians did that. Then you could throw out a hypothetical situation and your buddies would ask questions that got yes or no answers until someone solved the mystery. A guy once paraphrased the beginning of "The War of the Worlds". Around 4Am, someone said from nowhere::: H.G.Wells. Then it was "yes-yes-no-yes-yes", and the problem was solved. After the sergeant of the guard holed up with the CQ you could send flares horizontally over to an adjacent bunker.The sight of silhouettes jumping off the top of a bunker was a blast!!! The radio talk after such an event was fierce.
Uh-Oh, I am back to the curve. While most bunkers' radio identity would be a plain old number 6 or a number 15, there were those who called themselves "Stick Buddy", "Stump Jumper", "Afro Blue", "White Rabbit",etc. The king of the heap was "The Dome", With haughty and enigmatic intonations he was an Omniscient Presence in that crackling radio world. After a few months he was finally outed by collective detective work.. When it happened there was laughter all around and breakfast talk for a while was about how "The Dome" had cracked. Anyway he was never heard from again and may have just rotated back to the World.
What AM I talking about???
When I use my keypad like a Kansas City whore uses her tongue, I get carried away.
Good Sunday Morning Railroad Nam!!!

[edblysard]

It does have a nice, well, ring to it!

And you need a side kick, for comic relief....

Recruit Kevin, and you could call him,ummmm, I know, call him Fade...


Yeah,
The Shadow and his trusty driver, Fade.


Emory, still aUnihead, but it dosnt hurt to check out a new gig every once in a while...
Ed

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Wait,
Then shouldnt he change his user ID to ....


The Shadow


wow, I get goosebumps just typing it....
Ed

That's even better than WeatherGod..oh I like it....

[Anonymous]

DOGGY--you're young, develop a thick skin, CSX--you're opinionated--no problem with either. These dadgum commies however. Wait a minute--at least when the commies were around, we knew who we were up against.

[rixflix]

Let me stand back and look at you.>>>>>
You look shadowy enough for me.
This thread is getting well off the rails.
Wanna call fot the wrecker?

Rambunctious Rick

[edblysard]

Wait,
Then shouldnt he change his user ID to ....


The Shadow


wow, I get goosebumps just typing it....
Ed

[dharmon]

Airborne reconnaissance baby ...alone, unarmed, unafraid ...shadowy is a way of life....

[rixflix]

Sorry 'bout that Ed, but the dh got it first.
What do you say about a trade?
I can be Rancorous Rick
You can be Egregious Ed
And our dh would have to be Dastardly Dan
R
E
D

Communists again!!! And Dan seems fond of Shadowy. so I guess we should just let it go.
See ya.
Rick

[Anonymous]

You might be non shadowy, but are you still the Unihead? Gotta go, have to call in air support, we've got incoming on the perimeter of Trains AFB!!!

[edblysard]

Darn it Dan,
Now thats not fair...all these posting, and no one called me shadowy...all that wasted work.
Man, you get all the good names!
I've been called a lot of things, but nothing as cool as shadowy....


CSX, I dont dislike you, and you certainly are entitled to your opinion.
But it gets tired after the third time around.

What I was trying to point out is that there is a pissing contest going on over....
well, now that I mention it, what exactly is the contest over?

After all, it sounds like your picking a fight with a kid, or continuing a fight with a kid, over which one of you can write the worst posting, or who can call the other a "better" silly name.

Honestly, dont you have anything better to do than whip it out over something as dumb as "I can call you names if I want too" ?

Doggy, trust me, a wizzing contest only gets everyone wet and smelly.
Do you often pick un-winnable fights?

Geez, dont you get it, no matter how you respond to CSX, hes going to take it wrong?

Both of you need to get out of the sand box for a while, and think of something better to post than sentences that start with "Your a ...."

You both ought to grow up some.

Non shadowy Ed

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by wisser

CSX, I made a comment in another thread that you lost credibility in my book. I want you to know that I was talking about the Ricky Gates being a rat thing, and nothing more. I otherwise have nothing against you.

why is it such a hard thing for some of you people to swallow my dislike of someone... this is not a utopian world where we all give eachother butterfly kisses and flowers.... people dislike people for what ever reson..... its sad that you feel that my credibility is lost on you... but then agin..thats how you feel about me... no love lost in my book....
i live for contiversy... and when a hot topic comes along.... i like to add fuel to the fire... sometimes just to get people going... but on the ricky gates topic...that is my viewpoint... as hard as it is for many in here to understand... and people like doggy that seem to want to make it into a personal war...hey..im more then happy to take the gloves off and get down and dirty...
csx engineer

Dude,

I could give a rats....whether you like Rick Gates, Doggy (Scrappy Doo-hee hee hee), me, Ed, Kevin, Santa Claus or not...my issue is if you gonna say something to be factual...provide some supporting evidence...if it's just your opinion he's a rat...fine. It's your opinion.....we've all got them....I think he's a rat...cool....or ....he is a rat...then prove it....I got nothing against you, as you said I don't know you, you don't know me.....we could be cousins...I could be the president of CSX...

I respect your convictions..I don't have to like how you present them..nor do you have have to like how I do...fair enough?

It's all good.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by rixflix

CSX, did you know we were briefly (I hope) on a tag team together with the shadowy dharmon vs. Doggy and Kevin?

Hey Ed...check it out...I'm shadowy....I kind of like the way the sounds.....<evil voice> Back at the lair of the shadowy Mr Harmon, or <Basil Rathbone Queen's English> Come Watson, I've reason to believe the shadowy Mr. Harmon is behind this....

This is cool.....shadowy.....Rix you are a genuis....shadowy......I love it..

Oh yeah ....
Kevin and I don't agree all the time, but I think we're just about always on the "same team". We agree to disagree often..but still friends...

DHarmon got it. he's my pal.

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wisser

CSX, I made a comment in another thread that you lost credibility in my book. I want you to know that I was talking about the Ricky Gates being a rat thing, and nothing more. I otherwise have nothing against you.

why is it such a hard thing for some of you people to swallow my dislike of someone... this is not a utopian world where we all give eachother butterfly kisses and flowers.... people dislike people for what ever reson..... its sad that you feel that my credibility is lost on you... but then agin..thats how you feel about me... no love lost in my book....
i live for contiversy... and when a hot topic comes along.... i like to add fuel to the fire... sometimes just to get people going... but on the ricky gates topic...that is my viewpoint... as hard as it is for many in here to understand... and people like doggy that seem to want to make it into a personal war...hey..im more then happy to take the gloves off and get down and dirty...
csx engineer

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rixflix

CSX, did you know we were briefly (I hope) on a tag team together with the shadowy dharmon vs. Doggy and Kevin?

Hey Ed...check it out...I'm shadowy....I kind of like the way the sounds.....<evil voice> Back at the lair of the shadowy Mr Harmon, or <Basil Rathbone Queen's English> Come Watson, I've reason to believe the shadowy Mr. Harmon is behind this....

This is cool.....shadowy.....Rix you are a genuis....shadowy......I love it..

Oh yeah ....
Kevin and I don't agree all the time, but I think we're just about always on the "same team". We agree to disagree often..but still friends...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

donkey
what is your major problem... you blow a gasket over some stupid stuff...all i said was "well said" and you go into a total meltdown... get over yourself dude...or you going to die of a brain hemorage at age 16
csx engineer

YEAH, I'm not EVEN going to touch that one.

[Anonymous]

CSX, I made a comment in another thread that you lost credibility in my book. I want you to know that I was talking about the Ricky Gates being a rat thing, and nothing more. I otherwise have nothing against you.

[csxengineer98]

i mean doggy...
or do I.... they way you are going off on me for any comment i make anymore...maybe i do mean donkey...
csx engineer

[csxengineer98]

donkey
what is your major problem... you blow a gasket over some stupid stuff...all i said was "well said" and you go into a total meltdown... get over yourself dude...or you going to die of a brain hemorage at age 16
csx engineer

[rixflix]

Guess I missed them, but where are the jokes?
Gotta buy tickets for the Horseshoe Curve illumination this July 4th and must go now!!!