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Posted by CopCarSS on Friday, November 11, 2005 1:38 PM
Good Afternoon to you all...looks like this is 45 to go. Sigh...I'll probably be out hiking or something for the grand 10,000 celebration. Be sure to save me some cake! Starting to look like I might be hoofin' it through snow again. I have yet to finish post-processing the last batch of snow pix! Yikes!

Oh well, hope you all have a great weekend, and a good 10,000 party. Have fun!

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, November 11, 2005 1:59 PM
I am off into the wilderness to look for "tracks"....I will probably miss the party, but.....I know where the food will be hidden, so will party by myself Monday morning!

Happy weekend to all...I know I am smiling from ear to ear!

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 11, 2005 2:01 PM
It also looks like we'll pass 500 pages while we're at it.

I'm sticking around for this party![:D][:D][(-D]
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Posted by Junctionfan on Friday, November 11, 2005 2:05 PM
Well, I work for my M.P.P on Mondays and Fridays. The interesting thing is that this was the door I needed to get my foot into to be a politician. My dream is coming true. I have been told that I could accompany him to Queens Park and meet cabinet ministers and maybe even the Premier of Ontario.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 11, 2005 2:23 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

48



Who me, Cheat, never!!!



Oh Chad, do you remember the DOS topic? It was axed partly because of people posting numbers, nothing else, just numbers (a combination of star chasing and stupidity on their parts, but it became contagious. [:(] [:(!] I am not saying either about you but let's not temp fate.) So let's try and keep the diner open for another round of 10,000 posts, but first, let's make this 10,000. [:)]


10,000 - 9958 = 42 [:0] [:p] [8D]


Just a little early to start the cake, but I think we need two of them. One for those of us who like white cake with white frosting. Sorry Mook and Joe, but I am not a big chocolate eating guy. I love the old fashion sugar cookies with homemade icing. Funny though, half the dough never made it to the oven. [:D] [:p] [:D] We called them, ice box cookies, because you had to put the dough in the icebox before it went into the oven. Awwwww, those were the days [^] [:)] [:p] NOW I want some homemade cookies [:(] .

I was just wondering what horseydurves (lol lol lol [;)] [;)] ) CW will come up with. I just love those little finger sandwiches, I can't eat just one though. [;)] Man I can not wait for the party. BRING ON THE FOOD. [:D] [:D] [:D]
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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, November 11, 2005 2:48 PM
Well, Jim, guess you'll just have to wait and find out what I'll be serving that
prestigious day!! But you can rest assured, that there will be two white cakes
w/white icing, and two chocolate cakes w/chocolate icing. And for those who
don't like cake (heaven forbid such a thing), there will be several kinds of pie!!

Now, everybody get yourselves in here for this fish fry, and the pizza for tonight.
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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, November 11, 2005 4:29 PM
cookies cakes pies whatever you want jim as long as we have big glasses of milk.better call the local dairy here in town this will be one big party!!! bring on the pizzas too.
stay safe
joe

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Posted by CopCarSS on Friday, November 11, 2005 4:43 PM
Forgot to mention that I'll leave the Popcorn Machine with you guys for the weekend for the festivities. Have fun!

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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Friday, November 11, 2005 4:45 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

Darn

It looks like I am going to be on the road when we hit the 10,000 post mark and once again I will miss the party. Oh well, I am getting too old to stay up all night and party.

Jay


Jay your never too old to stay up and party all day and night!!! My grandmom who's 65 proved that last year. On another note I'm 19 and I've been doing agrressive inline skating for 5 years. I don't care how old I am I'll never give it up, I've worked too hard to acheive some of the tricks that I can do now. (However, I don't compete in too many competitions anymore). Some people still think I'll be a kid forever because of this. lol

CW I'll have a grilled chesse and some frys please if that's possible. Thanks.
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Posted by Junctionfan on Friday, November 11, 2005 5:24 PM
Well nothing to do tonight except work on music and study some law. This whole getting a girlfiend thing is a bit of a bother eh? Taking a long time but it is rather worth it if it works-she is hot. I'll see her tommorow but till then.................

Oh well..

Are you sure we can't have alcohol in the diner?
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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, November 11, 2005 6:27 PM
Andrew, very, very sure we can't have alcohol in the Diner!! Just grab you
some fish and fries, or some slices of pizza and a nice, cold
soft drink.
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Posted by tree68 on Friday, November 11, 2005 7:28 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

I almost forgot - Driver went for a walk yesterday and found the 3 hen turkeys that are living in an adjoining neighborhood. We saw an article in the paper that they were living right in the neighborhood - a small park within the neighborhood. They were roosting on the roof of a house when they were photographed. He said they were out for a walk, too.

Ah - big city life and small town feel.

You want turkeys - we got plenty. Not unusual to see a flock of 15-20 virtually anywhere you go around here now. Not all so long ago they were scarce. Now we actually have turkey hunters around here. Kinda cute to see the little ones running around behind mom.

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Posted by blhanel on Friday, November 11, 2005 7:32 PM
I'll go for some fish and fries, along with a nice cold Mountain Dew. Man, how I miss the real thing...
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Posted by blhanel on Friday, November 11, 2005 8:26 PM
Oh, and it looks like we're seven posts away from 500 pages.
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Posted by blhanel on Friday, November 11, 2005 8:47 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS

Forgot to mention that I'll leave the Popcorn Machine with you guys for the weekend for the festivities. Have fun!


I'll provide the popcorn- my Dad's cousin grows it up in Mankato, MN. Hanel Popcorn is the best, IMO (unbiased of course[;)]). Do a Google search for it and you should come up with a site where it can be purchased on-line!

OK, I'll shut up now and quit hogging this thread...
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Posted by rvos1979 on Friday, November 11, 2005 10:33 PM
Evening, all.

Sorry I haven't been in lately, between work and other things around the house I just haven't had time to stop by.

I've been lucky at work lately, in that I haven't had to go over to the UPS line at all. UPS wants 1,000 trailers by the end of the year, and they have been putting in a ton of overtime lately--people I've talked to said they have been putting in 2 to 2-1/2 hours extra time every night for the past three weeks or so.

It's finally starting to feel like the middle of November around here, we got the nice windy day everyone was talking about a few days ago, no real damage, but the weather forecast is calling for another windy day on Sunday.

Getting close to 10,000 posts, huh? I'll predict we'll hit it either Sunday or Monday, at the rate we have been usually running on the weekends.

CW, thank you for the pizza, you're one of the top places on my list of good pizzas

Later, everyone.

Randy

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 11, 2005 11:19 PM
People,

Allow me to introduce myself. May I get a glass of cranberry juice and a wheat bagel with Philly Cream cheese? My name is "Jim" (as if there aren't enough Jims here already ... what's one more?) I'm 37, live in upstate NY and have taken a serious liking to railroading. I've always liked watching trains, but it was about 3 years ago when I initially started gravitating towards museums, shortline excursions, then about a year later, picture taking locally out around rail yards and on the mainlines.

I'm a member at 2 other outstanding RR forums as well ('probably not proper to plug them here). I am looking forward to talking to each one of you, especially RR employees.

Thank you for your time and generous hospitality.

*Tip

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Posted by CShaveRR on Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:28 AM
Welcome, Jim!

For all of us: The fact that we're coming up on 500 pages and 10,000 posts at about the same time is no coincidence. You get 20 posts per page, multiply that by 500, and voila! ten thousand posts. The count doesn't include Jim's original grand opening, so if all performs as expected, the 10,000th post will be the first one on page 501.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, November 12, 2005 5:04 AM
good morning
juice and coffee are ready for today.Jim welcome to the diner glad to have you here! going to take some leftovers and warm them up for breakfast.shared my lunch with someone who had there money eaten by the change machine at work.
stay safe
joe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, November 12, 2005 5:57 AM
Good Saturday morning, everyone!! And Jim, welcome to the Depot Diner and
Coffee Shop!! We're always glad to welcome new patrons/customers. You can
get your fill of good "down home" cooking, and in here, we talk about anything
and everything.

Saturday breakfast: turkey bacon, sausage, biscuits & gravy, gritts (don't like
em, but I fix them for others who do), oatmeal, toast, scrambled eggs or fried
eggs: sorry, I don't do over easy eggs well. I like to know that the eggs are not
too runny.

Lunch today: actually, it's the Saturday breakfast menu, served until about 4
p.m. EST.

Everybody have a great day, and may it be a "Afternoon Delight" for you.

LOOKS LIKE THE NEXT PERSON IN THE DINER WILL BRING
THE DINER THREAD TO PAGE 500!!
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Posted by locomutt on Saturday, November 12, 2005 7:04 AM
[#welcome] to the Forums and particularly the "Diner" Jim;
Always nice to have new people come in for the "cuisine".

If CW's calculations are correct;it looks like I have the
"Dubious Honor" of taking this thread to 500 pages.

OH WELL,Lets go for 500 more !!!![swg]

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:59 AM
The counter said 9975 when I checked before I started this post, so we're under 25 to the big moment!

Jim - Welcome to the forums and the diner from another northern New Yorker. Drop me an email off-line if you'd care to share where you are.

Looks like a nice day here - which is good as I have a few things to do outside. Might rain tomorrow, so can't procrastinate too much longer. So, off to the race track! (Actually, the flower garden out front - time to mulch for the winter...)

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Posted by CShaveRR on Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:21 AM
Hmmm...then my calculation is a bit off, for some reason--the 10000th post will be about six items down on page 501.

I'll probably be at work when the big moment arrives, but I'm pretty sure that today will be the day!

(I wonder what would happen if I suddenly deleted all of my posts!)

Carl

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Posted by railfan619 on Saturday, November 12, 2005 1:30 PM
GOOD afternoon everyone how is we all doin today fine and dandy I hope well anywho the trees here are almost bare but the funny thing is the temp here today is 64 degrees and but it is going to get colder later on today and we are going to get more rain to and tomorrow is going to get really windy again for the second time this month. But anywho I know it's been couple of days sincre I have written but I have been getting home really late from work the last couple of nights and by the time I get home I'm just really to tired to come into the diner to get something to eat but. Now that the weekend is here I can spend most of my day in the diner to help out and to eat but oh well that's really about it from this end hope to be talkin to you soon so have a good day [:D][:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:14 PM
10,000 - 9978 = 22


A L M O S T

T H E R E

[:0] [:D] [:I] [:o)] [8)] [^] [:X] [:p] [:)] [8D]

I think I hear some singing in the background. I hope it is not the fat lady. [;)]


Carl [:)]

I think the 20 posts per page is an average, or possible the maximun number possible per page. But we have to remember, some people (like me lol) have pics in their sig and other icons as well, so that extra room takes away from the max number of posts possible per page. [:0] [B)] [8]

We could hit the big number later tonight. But more likely tomorrow. I think my previous prediction, about 2 weeks ago, was for this coming Monday. (That is if my memory serves me right, I didn't go back and check for the post.) So [C=:-)]CW will probally be up all night getting the final preparations ready.

Sarah was in the diner as I was getting this typed so we may be off a post by the time I post this. That is if she does post.

Can you say P A R T Y ? [:D] [8D] [:D] [bday] [dinner] [{(-_-)}]
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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:16 PM
Jim_White welcome to the Diner and to the forums!!!!![#welcome] I have a word of advise for you don't **** off the cook!!!

Carl if you were to delete some of your posts in the Diner I'm sure both Mookie and CW will be on you like a ticked off CRO after Corn Syrup Cars. lol

I do wonder what CW has cooked up for the 10,000 post mark??/

Well, I did some house work today. I had to get the leaves up from around the pond area out back of my house. I have a great big Red Oak tree over the pond which creates a lot of leaves over the pond and around the back yard. I have too many trees on the property over 20, I love trees but, the leaf patrol isn't fun. Man that was a lot of work, I'm glad to be done with it.
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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:19 PM
Well guys (and gals), the first of the pizzas are now in the oven, baking.

And, as it happens, I believe I DO have a great meal planned for
tomorrow. You'll all just have to wait until tomorrow to see what Dinner
will be.

One thing I will let you all in on: we will skip the usual Sunday brunch,
and there will be a big breakfast in the morning; then Sunday dinner.
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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:31 PM
18 to go!

I'll take my usual order of a couple of slices of Supreme please...

Welcome from Iowa, Jim!
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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, November 12, 2005 5:01 PM
Almost to 10,000[8D].MMMMM,I smell pizza baking.Ill have a few slices of pepperoni,sausage,and mushrom with a large Coke,and some chocolate cake for dessert[dinner] [:)].
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 12, 2005 5:18 PM
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. [:)]

How's the meatloaf here? I'll take a slice with some mashed potatoes and a large glass of Sam Adams .... and I'm going to blame all of you for my excess winter weight. [;)]

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