… in undiminished form. Daily laughs are once more a certainty!
And this is the second coming? 
Welllllll looks more like a bit of a screw-up with an error code message popping-up and me not wising to the server snafu. Live and learn! BTW that means we get double the laughs. Bonus! 
Sorry to be a total dwas, but I seem to [yet again] have missed the point of this post.
tac
Terry A de C Foley said:
Sorry to be a total dwas, but I seem to [yet again] have missed the point of this post.tac
Terry,
Don’t feel bad. You are not alone.
Ralph
Hey Terry,
What is a dwas?
I don’t think you meant a member of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.
If you did I guess you really did understand what HJ was on about.
Tony,
Could be that Terry, in his youthful exuberance, is still looking for the biblical parable. 
“First I hated the guy, then thought he was a dummy, then realized he was new, now we are friends, all is well.
But now, is he selling an Aster or not? Does he know anything at all?
He may or may not.
But, I am the hero, I am the only one who stood up for him while the rest of you morons crucified him.
Good news, even with the crucifixion, once I left, the numbers of members on this forum are WAY up!
We gained 4 new people (unless, of course, that’s just 4 more “Marvin” personalities).”
I’m reminded of the scientific principal that points out that the first signs of a social structure in collapse is that they begin to turn on each other with infighting, destroying that society from within. I wonder, are we witnessing the beginning of the Family Forum collapse?
Kind of reminds one of a specialty website focusing on the discussion of the new models of Studebaker now on the market.
They do the “cheerleader” stuff, and try to import same to other forums, thinking we all drink the same Kool-Aid.
Oh, dear.
Wolfgang should never have let someone take over his company.
Is that “the boys”?
Doesn’t like Märklin because they build “foreign” trains?
TonyWalsham said:
Hey Terry,What is a dwas?
I don’t think you meant a member of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.
If you did I guess you really did understand what HJ was on about.
Yo, Tone - a ‘dwas’ is a North-Walian slang word for a ‘gormless bugger’.
That’s just how I feel when I see a post that seems to have relevance only to the poster, but is posted as though we all knew what it was about, like this one from our friend H-J.
I’ve read it again, AND looked at the object concerned, and really continue to live in ignorance.
What I know of the Shay locomotives made by Aster -
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Two-truck Alishan Shay in 1977 - two versions, depending on whether it was bought as a kit of factory-built - alcohol-fired.
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Three-truck Western Maryland Shay in 1984 - gas-fired.
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Three-truck Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk in 1990 - gas-fired.
Can’t seem to find any reference to one that Aster may or may not have made for LGB, but no doubt there will be those who can point me at one. Certainly the one on ebay looks remarkably simplified by comparison with any of the ‘real’ Aster models.
Sorry to miss you at Llanfair this year. Next year, maybe, eh?
Best wishes
tac
TAC said:Terry, I had to look up gormless bugger, and that didn't help much, either. The closest I came to understanding the second phrase was "thick as two short planks."
That's just how I feel when I see a post that seems to have relevance only to the poster, but is posted as though we all knew what it was about
Shaw was right! :lol:
Steve,
You gotta consult your oracle more often.
Steve Featherkile said:TAC said:Terry, I had to look up gormless bugger, and that didn't help much, either. The closest I came to understanding the second phrase was "thick as two short planks."
That's just how I feel when I see a post that seems to have relevance only to the poster, but is posted as though we all knew what it was aboutShaw was right!
Steve - ‘TATSP’ fits the bill just fine, and reminds me of a little story from a few years back, when I was doing a lot of private flying in a WW2 Fieseler Storch.
I went to see my nephew up in North Wales - he was then about a year into his apprenticeship in aeronautical engineering with Airbus Industrie near Chester. A few of us got an invitiation to the factory and a walk-around one of the then-new Airbus 300 being prepared for its test flight. This included a womble [look THAT up] into the cockpit, which was being tested at the time of our visit.
The docent took a couple of us in to this all-glass/computer screen-only cockpit, without even a proper control yoke - just a little stick - and all I could see in front of me as I sat in the captain’s seat was a lot of black glass.
Well, he flicked a switch and the cockpit came alive - and ALL the screens lit up like saturday night at Coney Island. My jaw must have hit the floor as he smiled, and asked me ‘wojja think of THAT, then?’
I thought for a few seconds of my simple little panel and its few quivery gauges and a bit of bicycle chain [the Fowler flap drive] and the sash-weight on a bit of cable [the trim weight], and said to him - ‘Now I know how it feels to be a dog watching TV’.
tac
PS - and I STILL don’t know what H-J was talking about in his post.
Terry.
Last year my sister, who lives in New Malden, took Jen and I to the Wimbledon Common windmill where I bought a couple of Wombles for my grandsons.
Terry,
I know the feeling about today’s cockpits. I grew up in aviation when all I had to when all I had to worry about was getting my silk scarf caught in the rudder. Now, trying to fly the flight sims, I find myself looking out the window, even on IFR.
The Urban Dictionary has several definitions for “womble,” but the only one suitable for this forum is “to walk round picking up litter, british military 1970s 80s.”
While serving in the Navy aboard USS VIncennes, there were two Chief Petty Officers from New “Joisey.” Listening to them speak their native tongue was always a treat.
“'Djeetjet?”
“Naw, 'dju?”
“Y’antoo?”
Translation into the Mother Tongue:
“Did you eat, yet?”
“No, did you?”
“Do you want to?”
Terry A de C Foley said:
.............................‘Now I know how it feels to be a dog watching TV’.
tac
PS - and I STILL don’t know what H-J was talking about in his post.
If you didn’t get it, you just won’t get it.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:Terry A de C Foley said:
.............................‘Now I know how it feels to be a dog watching TV’.
tac
PS - and I STILL don’t know what H-J was talking about in his post.
If you didn’t get it, you just won’t get it.
Doh.
Just call me stupid, eh?
tac
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What kind of word is “stupid”?
That some obscure Welsh word?
Got a translation?