The Official Eleanor Roosevelt (And Anything Else Non-Topical) Thread

[Convicted One]

Well, one could easily tell from his sponsorship of the 21st amendment that papa Rooseveldt was a big ethanol supporter.

[Victrola1]

How did the Women's Christian Temperance Union take Mr. Eleanor derailing their train of reform? Did shipment of fuel for the human internal combustion engine help railroads recover from the depression? 

 

[Deggesty]

Victrola1

How did the Women's Christian Temperance Union take Mr. Eleanor derailing their train of reform? Did shipment of fuel for the human internal combustion engine help railroads recover from the depression? 

 

Perhaps they simply slowed down on their buttermilk consumption--buttermilk had ethanol in it. A great-aunt of mine belonged to the W.C.T.U., and she loved her buttermilk.

[BNSFwatcher]

Anna Eleanor decoy?  Could have been Madeline Albright or Helen Thomas.  Nancy ain't old enough.

Hays

[BNSFwatcher]

Aha!  Finally I understand why my father was a Democrat in the '30s and '40s!:  repeal of prohibition!

Hays

[Victrola1]

Throw Eleanor from the train. Who dunit?

Fala barks innocence.

 

 

 

[Anonymous]

 Hope everyone is having a nice "Eleanor Roosevelt" Friday!!!!

 

 

[al-in-chgo]

Murray

 Hope everyone is having a nice "Eleanor Roosevelt" Friday!!!!

 

 

"My Day" was fine, Murray. 

Speaking of ethanol, they say FDR mixed a mean martini.  What we would call "Happy Hour," he called "The Children's Hour" (ironically used, but there is a poem that uses the phrase).

Of course, years after Franklin's death Eleanor had Good Luck to contend with (note capitalization).      -  al

 

 

[Victrola1]

Historians I have heard remarked the Franklin's Martinis were horrible. How can one screw up just 2 ingredients, i. e. one ratio to consider? Of course, what the king makes and serves, you sip and smile. At least there was ethanol involved.

Franklin did concoct the Securities and Exchange Commission. Old Joe Kennedy was its first Lord Commissioner. It takes one to know one.Could Wall Street use another one converted to cop?

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/apr/01/wanted/?printer=1/

Would Eleanor complain about Warren Buffet going from at best a guess O gauge to BNSF gauge? Would old Joe get to go along for the ride?

 

[The Butler]

Victrola1

Historians I have heard remarked the Franklin's Martinis were horrible. How can one screw up just 2 ingredients, i. e. one ratio to consider? Of course, what the king makes and serves, you sip and smile. At least there was ethanol involved.

Franklin did concoct the Securities and Exchange Commission. Old Joe Kennedy was its first Lord Commissioner. It takes one to know one.Could Wall Street use another one converted to cop?

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/apr/01/wanted/?printer=1/

Would Eleanor complain about Warren Buffet going from at best a guess O gauge to BNSF gauge? Would old Joe get to go along for the ride?

 

I activated the link.

[nanaimo73]

Happy VE Day, everyone.

Flags were still at half mast, with the passing of FDR 3 weeks earlier.

[tree68]

Victrola1

Historians I have heard remarked the Franklin's Martinis were horrible. How can one screw up just 2 ingredients, i. e. one ratio to consider?

Considering that I've heard people order a Martini with the added instruction to "just wave the vermouth bottle over the glass,"  that's a good question...

[Anonymous]

"Dry...drier...driest...a veritable desert of a martini....."

[BNSFwatcher]

A belated thanks to the censo..., er... "moderators" for allowing this thread to exist.  I think it is mucho funo.  We, with 'senses-of-humor', can be quite civil.  It is a chore, but it can be done!

Hays

[BNSFwatcher]

Warren asked me to remind you that his surname is "Buffett".  Two "t"s.  While we were on the phone, I asked him how he liked his Martinis.  He likes "vodka" type, with either onions ("Gibsons") or just a twist of lemon.  I like them both ways, even with an olive, or two.  He told me that he just purchased a machine that takes the 'de-naturing' additives out of ethanol.  Removes the 5% gasoline, or whatever they adulterate it with.  The machine ain't cheap and he wouldn't tell me where he got it.  I'll ask again.  There are a bunch of ethanol tank cars parked in Omaha, for some reason...  "Munger Martinis", perhaps?

Hays

 

[Anonymous]

Hmmm...

This has got me wondering now...Which Pre-Amtrak passenger railroad Lounge/Club Car served the best Martini?

Anyone???

[RRKen]

Murray

"Dry...drier...driest...a veritable desert of a martini....."

I'll take mine with an Anchovie olive.

[blownout cylinder]

RRKen

Murray

"Dry...drier...driest...a veritable desert of a martini....."

I'll take mine with an Anchovie olive.

Oh yuck!

Make mine with a twist of Lemon please-----

[al-in-chgo]

BNSFwatcher

Warren asked me to remind you that his surname is "Buffett".  Two "t"s.  While we were on the phone, I asked him how he liked his Martinis.  He likes "vodka" type, with either onions ("Gibsons") or just a twist of lemon.  I like them both ways, even with an olive, or two.  He told me that he just purchased a machine that takes the 'de-naturing' additives out of ethanol.  Removes the 5% gasoline, or whatever they adulterate it with.  The machine ain't cheap and he wouldn't tell me where he got it.  I'll ask again.  There are a bunch of ethanol tank cars parked in Omaha, for some reason...  "Munger Martinis", perhaps?

Hays

 

"Back in the day" (pre-1970) I am told that denatured alcohol simply included a walloping dose of phenolptheylien(sp?), then as now a potent, nearly tasteless odorless and colorless additive, to the grain alcohol.  I don't know about now, but for one example it was the active ingredient in Ex-Lax. 

 

An effective deterrent!  -  al

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[Anonymous]

I had a really good steak on the Southern Crescent....really good fried chicken on the GM&O (Abraham Lincoln), and the Southern Crescent.

The D&H (Montreal Limited/Laurentian) did a great job with burgers and sandwiches

Amtrak's Montrealer in the early 70'd did a decent job with breakfast.

[BNSFwatcher]

Your cat would LOVE an anchovie-stuffed olive!  Back in college days, I learned the value of anchovies.  Three, or four, of us would order a pizza.  I ordered my portion with anchovies.  No one stole my share!  When I arrived in Germany, back in 1960 in the army, I smoked Marlboros.  Drop a pack on the table and the local gals scarfed them up.  All of them!  I switched to Chesterfield regulars (no filter) and didn't have that problem anymore.  Of course, I kept a pack of Marlboros in the glove box of my car, for "Special Occasions"!  Darn!  (that's French, doncha know?)  I do miss smoking on the train!

Hays

[Victrola1]

Buffett's layout now covers a lot more than Omaha. BNSF, will a third rail be laid for electrification like Lionel? Do they still run missile launching cars? If so, are the missile cars based from SAC near Omaha?

All Eleanor had was rail mounted artillery.

[samfp1943]

Any one ever seen a car factory with a 5 mile long taxiway?  

Think Eleanor R. would have been seen driving a "Beamer?"

[Victrola1]

"General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Company on Monday denied fresh accusations that they had collaborated with the Nazi war machine during World War II by supplying vehicles and raw materials to the German military."

http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/30/autos.holocaust/

Is this why Eleanor was driving a Nash? 

 

 

 

 

 

[wanswheel]

http://www.corbis.co.in/zoom.php?imageuid={9fb4c442-fa5d-4f79-8515-4e349a9fb3ec}

She crashed in '46.  Guess it wasn't her day.

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000419

[Murphy Siding]

Murray

OK Kids...with the blessing of the moderators here, we have our very own thread about nothing.

Think of it as the "Seinfeld" of threads.

Please keep it clean....humorous....and even rail-related if you can.

Have fun!

  Just a quick reminder not to get too serious on such a thread as this.

[al-in-chgo]

Murphy Siding

Murray

OK Kids...with the blessing of the moderators here, we have our very own thread about nothing.

Think of it as the "Seinfeld" of threads.

Please keep it clean....humorous....and even rail-related if you can.

Have fun!

  Just a quick reminder not to get too serious on such a thread as this.

10-4.  cat sitting on stove.  -  al

 

[daveklepper]

Chicken dinners on the GM&O.  Wow does that bring back memories.  1967-1970 I worked at the Downers Grove office of Bolt Beranek and Newman and lived in Westmont, one stop toward Chicago on the CB&Q "Racetrack."  I had lots of projects in Normal, Springfield, Bloomington, and once or twice in St. Louis.   One Bloomington job was two-man affair, and my partner wanted to drive.   I insisted on my usual routine, park at Jolliet (safe in those days) train from there.   (I was the senior employee.)  One the way back after a terrific chicken dinner in one of the GM&O slightly modernized heavyweight diners, he said: "Dave, now I understand why you insist on taking the train."

[Victrola1]

Goat burgers are good. Goatburger makes a respectable chili. Did any domestic dinning car serve goat? Did Eleanor serve goat on Franklin's private car?

[Phoebe Vet]

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'  
- Eleanor Roosevelt