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Posted by vsmith on Monday, October 30, 2006 11:57 AM
 
Let the dead rest...........................
 
 
 
 

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Posted by vsmith on Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:33 AM

 

 

 

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Posted by solzrules on Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:07 PM
 TomDiehl wrote:
 solzrules wrote:

However, I'll take 10 of those "liberals" any day over 1 moronic red-state bush-believing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly.

This has to be the most un-intelligent retarded post I have read yet. 

I'll have you know I have the most fun with my liberal friends......they have no sense of humor and they get really offended if you laugh at their stupidity. 

tee-hee!

I have the same experience with my ultra-conservative friends. Big Smile [:D]

Wow.  Is this while you guys are 'debating' homesteading?  Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:29 PM

 wallyworld wrote:
Obssesive compulsive disorder. It's a medical condition like rivet counting disorder..RCD or it's opposite counterpart like TMD..thread morphing disorder..wherein the compulsion to be contrary to ordinary overwhelms the senses. Another sign is excessive typing like I am demonstrating now..as a matter of fact, I think I have all three.. and I Don't Blame The Railroads..there...thank goodness, Iv'e kept on the topic.

      Thanks for the clarification.  I Don't Blame The Railroads for my misunderstanding.Wink [;)]

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Posted by wallyworld on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:54 PM
Obssesive compulsive disorder. It's a medical condition like rivet counting disorder..RCD or it's opposite counterpart like TMD..thread morphing disorder..wherein the compulsion to be contrary to ordinary overwhelms the senses. Another sign is excessive typing like I am demonstrating now..as a matter of fact, I think I have all three.. and I Don't Blame The Railroads..there...thank goodness, Iv'e kept on the topic.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:39 PM

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I think this thread, to the contrary, is surrealistically entertaining. It gets my vote in the " Most Morphed" catagory. My second favorite is the one about what folks are eating on any particular day. My all time favorites are the OCD inducing factoid wars. This is a very diverse group which makes it all the more entertaining, at times enlightening, in both a productive and silly way. What more could we want? Another fave is guessing where Bergie will pop up..will he kill the thread? Especially on Monday morning after many a searing flame has been expended in a fruitless effort to extinquish one another's sacred cows. The dreaded thread lock........

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Posted by TimChgo9 on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:35 PM

You know what........

The elections are going to be here in a week, and then after that NO MORE CAMPAIGN ADS.... which will feel like deliverance if you ask me... Big Smile [:D]

Hey, this forum is about TRAINS. and RAILROADS... (and, I'll admit politics rears it's ugly head in the railroad arena from time to time., i.e. Amtrak)  but ,generally, can we keep it about trains... and stop the political stereotyping???  I have posted my loathing of politics and politicians (After what we have been through in Illinois, can ya blame me???) so I won't repeat it here......Censored [censored]Censored [censored] 

But, in my opinion... regardless of how the election goes on the 7th,  this country is going to be in a world of hurt, one way or the other, and we had all better figure out how to fix it... it is, after all, our country.... right? SoapBox [soapbox] 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:31 PM

This thread is like a broken pencil....

 

 

 

Question [?]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pointless!

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This thread should be no more, it should cease to be!!!
Posted by CrazyDelmar on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:22 PM

Wow, who opened the political floodgate, because I smell old fish.  I'll vote for it under the 'Most Morphed Thread' catagory!!

 

SoapBox [soapbox]

We hear about politics pretty much everywhere, but why here on the forums?!?!

It doesnt really matter what party you associate with on here, for most of us signed up here for one thing, and that is to talk trains, not politics.

So take all of your political ranting and put them were they belong, on a political forum!!!!

My 2 cents [2c]

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Posted by jeaton on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:15 PM

"My second favorite is the one about what folks are eating on any particular day."

Talk like that and you will find yourself subject to the owners of the DD&CS excercising their right to refuse service.  And if you sneak in you better watch out for the cat.

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Posted by wallyworld on Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:01 PM
I think this thread, to the contrary, is surrealistically entertaining. It gets my vote in the " Most Morphed" catagory. My second favorite is the one about what folks are eating on any particular day. My all time favorites are the OCD inducing factoid wars. This is a very diverse group which makes it all the more entertaining, at times enlightening, in both a productive and silly way. What more could we want? Another fave is guessing where Bergie will pop up..will he kill the thread? Especially on Monday morning after many a searing flame has been expended in a fruitless effort to extinquish one another's sacred cows. The dreaded thread lock........

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:24 AM

Not a chance, pot head liberals vs tight a$$ed conservatives? Are you kidding

I just bought a whole crate of popcorn!

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Posted by Datafever on Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:53 AM
I thought that this thread was going to be allowed to terminate...
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Posted by TomDiehl on Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:31 AM
 solzrules wrote:

However, I'll take 10 of those "liberals" any day over 1 moronic red-state bush-believing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly.

This has to be the most un-intelligent retarded post I have read yet. 

I'll have you know I have the most fun with my liberal friends......they have no sense of humor and they get really offended if you laugh at their stupidity. 

tee-hee!

I have the same experience with my ultra-conservative friends. Big Smile [:D]

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Not a red-state bush believeing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly
Posted by solzrules on Friday, October 27, 2006 10:29 PM

However, I'll take 10 of those "liberals" any day over 1 moronic red-state bush-believing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly.

This has to be the most un-intelligent retarded post I have read yet. 

I'll have you know I have the most fun with my liberal friends......they have no sense of humor and they get really offended if you laugh at their stupidity. 

tee-hee!

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 27, 2006 8:25 PM
 zardoz wrote:
Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]Dunce [D)]

  I'll take 10 of those "liberals" any day over 1 moronic red-state bush-believing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly.

Evil [}:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 27, 2006 8:22 PM
 vsmith wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:

 Murphy Siding wrote:
     Some threads just hit that point of absurdity, that they make Monty Python sketches seem cerebral in comparison.Wink [;)]

Actually, you'll find most British humor to be cerebral more so than US sit-coms.  The British will rather put forth an absurd visual premise (aka King Aurther and his patsy shuffling along while banging two coconuts together to emulate being horseback), then script it as if they really were on horseback.  Even more cerebral is the Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson (of Mr. Bean fame), which employs very intellectual scripting for it's humor (aka Samuel Johnson extolling his new dictionary as containing every single word in the English language, only to be upstaged by Blackadder who converses with words and phrases not in Mr. Johnson's new dictionary!)

SNL tries to pull off the same cerebralness, but of course fails miserably since it's writers are all a bunch of dope smoking New York liberals.  So probably you should have referenced SNL as being the comparitive to this pointless thread.

 
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Big fan of Blackadder 2 series myself. I'm convinced the game of sharades played with Mad Prince Ludwig's spanish inquisition jailer is the funniest thing ever put to videotape,  althought the 3rd series gun duel with an insane Duke of Wellington (with cannons) rates pretty high too.Wink [;)]
 

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Posted by oltmannd on Friday, October 27, 2006 2:36 PM
 zardoz wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:

 fails miserably since it's writers are all a bunch of dope smoking New York liberals. 

You make that sound as though that is a bad thing...

 

However, I'll take 10 of those "liberals" any day over 1 moronic red-state bush-believing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly.

You left out "greedy".Shock [:O]

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Posted by Limitedclear on Friday, October 27, 2006 2:32 PM
 zardoz wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:

 fails miserably since it's writers are all a bunch of dope smoking New York liberals. 

You make that sound as though that is a bad thing...

 

However, I'll take 10 of those "liberals" any day over 1 moronic red-state bush-believing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly.

No offense intended to those of you from the south that are capable of independent thought (I can generalize as well as anyone).

FYI: It is autobiographically well documented that the Monty Python members were quite fond of smoking certain herbs, and yet they were 'cerebral'.  Hmmm........

There are more of those Bush types in Idaho anyhow...

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Posted by zardoz on Friday, October 27, 2006 1:37 PM
 futuremodal wrote:

 fails miserably since it's writers are all a bunch of dope smoking New York liberals. 

You make that sound as though that is a bad thing...

 

However, I'll take 10 of those "liberals" any day over 1 moronic red-state bush-believing jingoistic fox-news watching inbred wife-beating greasy-haired smelly hillbilly.

No offense intended to those of you from the south that are capable of independent thought (I can generalize as well as anyone).

FYI: It is autobiographically well documented that the Monty Python members were quite fond of smoking certain herbs, and yet they were 'cerebral'.  Hmmm........

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, October 27, 2006 10:57 AM
 futuremodal wrote:

 Murphy Siding wrote:
     Some threads just hit that point of absurdity, that they make Monty Python sketches seem cerebral in comparison.Wink [;)]

Actually, you'll find most British humor to be cerebral more so than US sit-coms.  The British will rather put forth an absurd visual premise (aka King Aurther and his patsy shuffling along while banging two coconuts together to emulate being horseback), then script it as if they really were on horseback.  Even more cerebral is the Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson (of Mr. Bean fame), which employs very intellectual scripting for it's humor (aka Samuel Johnson extolling his new dictionary as containing every single word in the English language, only to be upstaged by Blackadder who converses with words and phrases not in Mr. Johnson's new dictionary!)

SNL tries to pull off the same cerebralness, but of course fails miserably since it's writers are all a bunch of dope smoking New York liberals.  So probably you should have referenced SNL as being the comparitive to this pointless thread.

 
FM we arent so different afterall....Shock [:O]
 
Big fan of Blackadder 2 series myself. I'm convinced the game of sharades played with Mad Prince Ludwig's spanish inquisition jailer is the funniest thing ever put to videotape,  althought the 3rd series gun duel with an insane Duke of Wellington (with cannons) rates pretty high too.Wink [;)]
 

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, October 27, 2006 10:48 AM
Did someone imply that girls in Idaho have lots of armpit hair or am I short on caffine this AM?Shock [:O]
 
(PS the girl in the original image had no armpit hair, but I wouldnt mind being one opening that beerTongue [:P])
 
(PSPS if ya missed the original posted image ...too bad loser!Laugh [(-D])

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 27, 2006 8:14 AM

 Murphy Siding wrote:
     Some threads just hit that point of absurdity, that they make Monty Python sketches seem cerebral in comparison.Wink [;)]

Actually, you'll find most British humor to be cerebral more so than US sit-coms.  The British will rather put forth an absurd visual premise (aka King Aurther and his patsy shuffling along while banging two coconuts together to emulate being horseback), then script it as if they really were on horseback.  Even more cerebral is the Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson (of Mr. Bean fame), which employs very intellectual scripting for it's humor (aka Samuel Johnson extolling his new dictionary as containing every single word in the English language, only to be upstaged by Blackadder who converses with words and phrases not in Mr. Johnson's new dictionary!)

SNL tries to pull off the same cerebralness, but of course fails miserably since it's writers are all a bunch of dope smoking New York liberals.  So probably you should have referenced SNL as being the comparitive to this pointless thread.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, October 27, 2006 7:10 AM
     Some threads just hit that point of absurdity, that they make Monty Python sketches seem cerebral in comparison.Wink [;)]

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Posted by Limitedclear on Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:12 PM

Shock [:O]Shock [:O]Shock [:O]

Ya think?!

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Posted by solzrules on Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:00 PM

YES THIS THREAD IS FINALLY DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by Limitedclear on Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:40 PM
 futuremodal wrote:
 Limitedclear wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:
 vsmith wrote:

As for the French Girls...

Big Smile [:D]

 

Those girls aren't French....

Whistling [:-^]

...where's all the armpit hair?

 

 

Yeah, you've been to France...NOT!

Armpit hair went out decades ago, even on the Continent...

Stick to Idaho, it's what you know...

LOL...

LC

Wooaaa!  Struck a nerve, did we?

So LC's une les miserables, non vie boheme!.  That explains EVERYTHING! 

LOL!

Sorry, Charlie, just because I've been doesn't imply anything else...

Nice try...

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:37 PM
 Limitedclear wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:
 vsmith wrote:

As for the French Girls...

Big Smile [:D]

 

Those girls aren't French....

Whistling [:-^]

...where's all the armpit hair?

 

 

Yeah, you've been to France...NOT!

Armpit hair went out decades ago, even on the Continent...

Stick to Idaho, it's what you know...

LOL...

LC

Wooaaa!  Struck a nerve, did we?

So LC's une les miserables, non vie boheme!.  That explains EVERYTHING! 

LOL!

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Posted by Limitedclear on Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:10 PM
 futuremodal wrote:
 vsmith wrote:

As for the French Girls...

Big Smile [:D]

 

Those girls aren't French....

Whistling [:-^]

...where's all the armpit hair?

 

 

Yeah, you've been to France...NOT!

Armpit hair went out decades ago, even on the Continent...

Stick to Idaho, it's what you know...

LOL...

LC

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