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"You may as well pizz on the fire...and call the dogs!"
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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Highball (asked several pages ago) is a railroad term. They used a ball on rope or pole at the station, if it was high, you could (proceed) at high speed for the next section of track. That. And if the ball was low, you were to stop at the station. No balls on poles now, but the term sticks. "Highball the work"....leave the cars scheduled to be added to the train. All dark... Mean anything to you? It usually means there is a manager lurking about.  Actually on the main line just as the train entered a curve the engine crew could look back and see the entire train, a mile or better back. The term "all dark" was said by the crewmen that could see that side of the train and repeated by the other crew members where all were to know that no hot boxes were spotted for the entire length of the train. Hot box, or dry axle, could cause a train fire or derailment. 
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Doc Howell, did you ever dip tar? No, but I've changed a few by the side of the road.  I was present where chipping boxes and dipping tar was taking place and saw enough of it that I never wanted to do it for a living. Was hard and dirty work. Made many a trip to the turpentine still with a barrel or two of tar in the pickup to sell.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson
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Pop the clutch. I'm convinced no one under 30 can drive a standard transmission. Even for 40+ old, it's a distant memory too.
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Twenty years ago I was still driving a '79 Ford pickup with a 3 speed stick; "three on the tree". Had to park in the city at a lot where the attendant parked your vehicle for you. Got out and said; "it's a stick". "OK" was his reply. Walking away from the lot I noticed he was still in my truck and it hadn't moved yet. I went back and asked if everything was O.K. Turns out he had never even parked anything with a three on the tree. Once I showed him how to get first and reverse he did fine. He just had never even heard about or seen a three speed column shift. That's when (1992) I first realized that those things were getting scarce. Or should I say; "rarer than hen's teeth".
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Any of you ever been on an "E ticket" ride.
My 30 year old son didn't know that one.
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Thanks for the info on 'waif' Ken, I was just repeating things I heard from the old folks back when I was a kid. They all gone now and most didn't have no 'school larne-in'.
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OH that is a riot. Several years ago my wife and some co-workers were talking at lunch as one described an auto accident she had been in my wife said just that, "Wow that sounds like an E-Ticket ride". A younger nurse asked what she was talking about, when Kath explained that was the big rides at Disney the girl said "Your nuts, they don't have tickets at Disney". At that point my wife dug into her purse and pulled out an old book of tickets from Disneyworld in Orlando and showed her one! BTW, she still has them in her purse.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
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I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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My wife's mom used to tell the younguns, them what can't hear can feel.
Originally Posted By: P_Weed
I never met a gun I didn't like.
SEdge,
I have an AMT Hardballer I can fix you up with.
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All dark...
Mean anything to you?
It usually means there is a manager lurking about. Actually on the main line just as the train entered a curve the engine crew could look back and see the entire train, a mile or better back. The term "all dark" was said by the crewmen that could see that side of the train and repeated by the other crew members where all were to know that no hot boxes were spotted for the entire length of the train. Hot box, or dry axle, could cause a train fire or derailment. You're right. I'd forgotten that one - haven't heard it used that way for quite some time. Hot-box is another one that's just about history. Haven't seen an axle with a grease box for years, but I think there are a few still out there. More concerned with what's going on ahead these days. "All dark" would indicate a signal outage (usually a test) and the requirement to stop. We could go off-topic with railroad lingo all night, but I'll just crawl back into my crummy instead (not seeing any of those anymore either).
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I just used "hurtin' unit" to describe a real sick patient at work (hospital). I had to explain it to my co-workers.
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"... doesn't know Gordon from Gottschalk."
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
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Get up and change the channel, son.
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Twenty years ago I was still driving a '79 Ford pickup with a 3 speed stick; "three on the tree". Had to park in the city at a lot where the attendant parked your vehicle for you. Got out and said; "it's a stick". "OK" was his reply. Walking away from the lot I noticed he was still in my truck and it hadn't moved yet. I went back and asked if everything was O.K. Turns out he had never even parked anything with a three on the tree. Once I showed him how to get first and reverse he did fine. He just had never even heard about or seen a three speed column shift. That's when (1992) I first realized that those things were getting scarce. Or should I say; "rarer than hen's teeth". My uncle had a 1941 Buick with a three on the tree, and he let me drive it one time...it is by far the smoothest manual transmission I have ever used! (his 1950s "M" tractor, on the other hand...)
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