Chatterbox Winter 2017-2018

[CShaveRR]

Mookie

We, up north, seem to be in that 5th season - Summerfallwinterspring...

Extra points if you are old enough to know where I got the name.....

No dilly-dallying around here, Princess, we remember.  As clare as a bell.  No bluster or buffalo.

[Paul of Covington]

    It's Howdy Doody Time!

[Deggesty]

It was +12 here at 7:15 this morning; it'a +21 now, at 8:31 in the evening.

[Mookie]

See!  This forum isn't just a group of stuffy old men with bad ears and no memory.  

Probably remember more details from that simple show than all the reruns of Star Wars....

Congrats Carl & Paul.  There must be a little boy(s) in there somewhere...

The peanut gallery

[Paul of Covington]

Mookie

There must be a little boy(s) in there somewhere...

   Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.

[Mookie]

Paul of Covington

Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.

I always felt that way, too, Paul.  I am 3 years behind you and I am still in a quandry.  But will keep trying to decide.  

[Murphy Siding]

    

I never really knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, or whether I really wanted to grow up.  So I’ve just focused on my life’s goal to be a millionaire by the time I’m 30.

 

[tree68]

Mookie

Probably remember more details from that simple show than all the reruns of Star Wars....

I remember being heartbroken when they announced they were going off the air.

[Mookie]

Murphy Siding

I’m 30.

Check the harbor - I think that ship sailed already...

[Mookie]

And also when Mr. Rogers was no more - 

Before Murphy gets his  in here - I watched with my small daughter!  My story and sticking to it!  

[Murphy Siding]

Mookie

 

Murphy Siding

I’m 30.

 

 

Check the harbor - I think that ship sailed already...

 

 

That's why I hang out by the railroad tracks instead.

[Murphy Siding]

Mookie

And also when Mr. Rogers was no more - 

Before Murphy gets his  in here - I watched with my small daughter!  My story and sticking to it!  

 

when I was a kid we didn't watch Mr. Rodgers. We were more into high culture, like Giligan's Island.

     I did spend a lot of time watching Thomas the Tank Engine with our three boys. I had a book of the Railway Series that it was based on. We went through that so many times that it eventually fell apart, and it was a big, thick, hardcover book.

[ChuckCobleigh]

Paul of Covington

   Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.

As my wife tells me: "Give it up!  Your not grown up!  You're never going to grow up!"

And, frankly, she's right!

And Murph, I had 6/7 of that million before I was 30; I had all of the zeros.

[tree68]

ChuckCobleigh

As my wife tells me: "Give it up!  Your not grown up!  You're never going to grow up!"

And as they say, growing old is mandatory.  Growing up is not...

[Murphy Siding]

ChuckCobleigh

 

Paul of Covington

   Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.

 

 

As my wife tells me: "Give it up!  Your not grown up!  You're never going to grow up!"

And, frankly, she's right!

And Murph, I had 6/7 of that million before I was 30; I had all of the zeros.

 

The only part of the goal I hit was the 30.

[Electroliner 1935]

Mookie

 Paul of Covington

Funny, but all my life I've had the feeling in the back of my mind that I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I'm now 77 and I still feel that way.

 I always felt that way, too, Paul.  I am 3 years behind you and I am still in a quandry.  But will keep trying to decide.  

 

And I'm five years older than Paul and am happy with what I have done and experienced but still feel like a kid sometimes (when I'm not feeling old). 

[zugmann]

tree68

And as they say, growing old is mandatory. Growing up is not...

I used to have this in my signaturte page:

 

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

― C.S. Lewis

[JoeKoh]

afternoon

Ns local was uptown when I left work.Got a call on the way home.Csx local couldn't get into Standley Elevator because of an engine with a bad traction motor.They couldn't get into GM because the yard track they use has a railgrinder parked on it.Maybe tomorrow.Have chores to do.

stay safe

Joe

[switch7frg]

Can anyone tell me how to get to Sesame St.??

[zugmann]

switch7frg

Can anyone tell me how to get to Sesame St.??

 

Requires a subscription to HBO, I believe.  Contact your cable provider for details.

[ChuckCobleigh]

switch7frg

Can anyone tell me how to get to Sesame St.??

You have to be an HBO subscriber to answer that now.

EDIT: Great! I spend two minutes looking for an appropriate emoticon and Zugs gets on ahead of me!

[blue streak 1]

City of Columbus, Ga has had 5 consecutive days of record high temps. Has anyone ever heard that any city has had 5 consecutive record high days ?

[tree68]

blue streak 1

Has anyone ever heard that any city has had 5 consecutive days ?

We just had five consecutive days here, and are about to start on another five...

Oh, wait, you were talking about record temperatures....   

[Paul of Covington]

   In New Orleans seven of the last eight days were record highs, and tomorrow might be another one.

[Miningman]

Paul of Covington-- It was -43 here yesterday morning. Sounds like we need to send down some air conditioning and you send up some heat and we will all be happy and temperate! 

A temperature pipeline! ...Northern Saskatchewan to New Orleans, one in each direction.

[mudchicken]

You inhaling or exhaling with that pipe? Does the DEA know about you folks?

[Paul of Covington]

Miningman

A temperature pipeline! ...Northern Saskatchewan to New Orleans, one in each direction.

   Heresy!   On a trains forum you're suggesting pipelines?   Fill unit trains of reefers with cold air and send them down here.  We'll fill them with warm air for the backhaul.

[Miningman]

Yes yes of course. 150 car trains every hour both directions. 3,600 cars a day x2....7,200 cars a day. Landmark buisness! ...and all you have to do is open the doors and hatches. No unloading, nothing. 

I suppose we could add some 'atmospherics' to make us all a bit happier and carefree but we don't want any trouble at the border. 

[zugmann]

ChuckCobleigh

EDIT: Great! I spend two minutes looking for an appropriate emoticon and Zugs gets on ahead of me!

Great minds and all that.

You spent TWO minutes looking for an emoticon.  That's TWO minutes, ha..ha..ha... (Ok, it loses something when typed out). 

 

[ChuckCobleigh]

zugmann

You spent TWO minutes looking for an emoticon.  That's TWO minutes, ha..ha..ha... (Ok, it loses something when typed out). 

Well, the one I used turned out to be under the bed hiding among the dust bunnies.  Crafty little devils, those emoticons.