From George Takei, of course, ROTFLMAO!
Was this in Wales?
No, in the Lake District.
Some Brit told me what he overheard one guy muttering as he read the sign. (ROTFLMAO)
Yep some the UK express hi speed trains rattle thro’ 120mph on the straight.
How ever not in the stations!!
Paul
Trying to keep it clean - I learned fairly early-on when commuting home from college (late 1960s) - Don’t stand too close to the toe line on the platform when a GG1 is pulling the train! Those locomotives had very strong cooling blowers for their traction motors, and the inlet vents were apparently on the side of the carbody. I weighed 155 pounds at that time, and I could feel the pull from those cooling blowers when I stood too close on the platform.
'Nuff said,
David Meashey
Well, it COULD have been in Wales…
E. Paul Austin said:
How ever not in the stations!!Paul
Not quite correct.
Here in Huntingdon the up and down expresses are actually hitting 140mph as they go through the station.
tac, ig and The Rideau Lock Boys
John Le Forestier said:OK, mystery solved. Penrith is in Cumbria, in the Lake District, so HJ wins. I'm not sure what he wins, but whatever it is, he lays claim to it. [url=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith-station.htm]Take a look at the photos of Penrith Station[/url]
Was this in Wales?
There is a Penrith Station in New South Wales, Australia, so John was almost right.
You guys should visit Wales.
Why now can’t I get the image out of my mind of a bunch of loser guys all standing around just beyond the sign. :lol:
Victor Smith said:Because you live next door to Sheldon and Leonard. :P
Why now can't I get the image out of my mind of a bunch of loser guys all standing around just beyond the sign. :lol:
Steve Featherkile said:
…Penrith is in Cumbria, in the Lake District, so HJ wins. I’m not sure what he wins, but whatever it is, he lays claim to it. There is a Penrith Station in New South Wales, Australia, so John was almost right.
Well Steve, you don’t win anything Penrith in NSW
As far as JLF’s guess; he doesn’t know about Penrith or NSW (now he’ll light into me about acronyms) hehehe :lol: :lol: Now for those who haven’t been there watch the video; the first portion after leaving Sydney, NSW (yep, that’s the place with the fancy opera house by the harbor). [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/11979315[/vimeo]
Steve Featherkile said::lol: :lol: :lol:Victor Smith said:Because you live next door to Sheldon and Leonard. :P
Why now can't I get the image out of my mind of a bunch of loser guys all standing around just beyond the sign. :lol:
Victor Smith said:They're Welsh of course...
Why now can't I get the image out of my mind of a bunch of loser guys all standing around just beyond the sign. :lol:
The Penrith identifier is plainly visible, and I knew darned well all along where it is located. But my posts have been about the Welsh. This has gone on long enough, so maybe it’s time I brought you up to speed. You see, the Welsh are funny people…
That sign, if only it were spelled impossibly, is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from the Welsh… Half Celtic, half Hobbit, you see. The Welsh are funny people, you really have to meet one for yourself…
You’ll find a bunch of them standing around just beyond the sign…
John Le Forestier said:Victor Smith said:They're Welsh of course...
Why now can't I get the image out of my mind of a bunch of loser guys all standing around just beyond the sign. :lol:The Penrith identifier is plainly visible, and I knew darned well all along where it is located. But my posts have been about the Welsh. This has gone on long enough, so maybe it’s time I brought you up to speed. You see, the Welsh are funny people…
That sign, if only it were spelled impossibly, is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from the Welsh… Half Celtic, half Hobbit, you see. The Welsh are funny people, you really have to meet one for yourself…
You’ll find a bunch of them standing around just beyond the sign…
Not sure if I related this earlier on (sometime between 2003 and now). Anyway at one of my customers (in my previous life) they had an interesting situation in the plant office, a whole bunch of the Island people (aka UK) and one token German guy.
A brave German guy! In prominent location above his desk he had the following sign.
“There are four tribes inhabiting the British Isles,
The Scots, who keep the Sabbath and anything else they can get their hands on.
The Welsh, who pray upon their knees and prey upon their neighbours.
The Irish, who don’t know what they want, but are perfectly willing to die for it.
And last the English, who consider themselves a race of selfmade men, thereby absolving the Almighty of a dreadful responsibility.”
Thirty years later I remember as if it were yesterday. 
HJ;
I believe that quote can be attributed to George Bernard Shaw. I have a copy of it in my Macmillan Handbook of English Grammer from junior college in 1965. The quote is also one of my favorites. Mr. Shaw’s sarcasm could cut through granite.
Best,
David Meashey
Even if it isn’t/shouldn’t be his, he has enough others to make one howl with laughter for some time. Like this zinger
GBS said:
All great truths begin as blasphemies. Annajanska (1919)
John Le Forestier said:Victor Smith said:They're Welsh of course...
Why now can't I get the image out of my mind of a bunch of loser guys all standing around just beyond the sign. :lol:The Penrith identifier is plainly visible, and I knew darned well all along where it is located. But my posts have been about the Welsh. This has gone on long enough, so maybe it’s time I brought you up to speed. You see, the Welsh are funny people…
That sign, if only it were spelled impossibly, is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from the Welsh… Half Celtic, half Hobbit, you see. The Welsh are funny people, you really have to meet one for yourself…
You’ll find a bunch of them standing around just beyond the sign…
Ahem, M. Le Forestier. mrs tac notes that you are very lucky that we are back here in yUK after a few weeks over with the family in SE Ontario. She is Welsh, and takes remarks like yours - indeed, with anybody, male or female who makes a point of mocking the Welsh, with a great lack of humour.
Receipt of your right foot, having been removed from your mouth and suitably packaged for shipping, would go some way toward assuaging her ire.
Nid yw fy ngwraig yn cael ei chadarn ei waredu i’r rhai sy’n gwneud pwynt o wawdio’r bobl Cymru. Os gallwch ddarllen hwn, yna mae gennych esgus am eich sylwadau, gan ei bod yn debygol bod gennych dras Cymreig.
tac, ig & The Llanfihaengl-ym-Mochnant Male Voice Choir Boys
tac said:They can't spell either.
Nid yw fy ngwraig yn cael ei chadarn ei waredu i'r rhai sy'n gwneud pwynt o wawdio'r bobl Cymru. Os gallwch ddarllen hwn, yna mae gennych esgus am eich sylwadau, gan ei bod yn debygol bod gennych dras Cymreig. tac, ig & The Llanfihaengl-ym-Mochnant Male Voice Choir Boys