Never mind
“It’s the history of British labor politics, played out in G scale”
Or it is a collection of very interesting stories written by a Father, who was a minister, to his sick son and now shared by those writings with the World through cartoons or a book of the collection of the stories. Mike, I’ll share your view with Luke, my 5 year old grandson, and see if he can understand or will even be interested in your opinion that the freight cars are really oppressed labor. And the stories are actually fights between the classes of society.
Boy, you guys must stay up nights thinking this stuff up.
Taffey 3, Mike. Still waiting.
never mind
Oh, the evil capitalists were at it, even then.
I’m not surprised that you think this is funny, Mike.
Steve Featherkile said:
Oh, the evil capitalists were at it, even then.I’m not surprised that you think this is funny, Mike.
As long as there has been capitalism, there has been evil capitalists.
Too bad Mike edited his post. I may have found it interesting, whether I agreed or not.
Now I can only speculate.
Ralph
nevermind
Bruce Chandler said:That seems to be the trend on this thread :) Wish I knew what the thread was about ;) Ralph
nevermind
I sure don’t have a clue. That’s why I didn’t mind. 
mike omalley said:Oh, but we do mind, Mike. That is why we challenge your ideas, not you. As a teacher, you should be used to that.
Never mind
dang. can’t take a day off with out missing something good can I.
I posted something that I did not intend to be a political discussion but it started to turn into one so I deleted it. It was my mistake.
Nah just an old(ish) Queen.
Rod Hayward said:
We don't have a Lord.
Declaration of Independence
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
We don’t have a king, either. And, Monty was right. The power of government is lent to the politicians from us, the proletariat.
mike omalley said:Mike, I posted something that I thought was funny, too, and it turned into a 9 month bru-ha-ha on "Global Warming," whatever that is. Still, I stood up to you all, why can't you do the same?
I posted something that I did not intend to be a political discussion but it started to turn into one so I deleted it. It was my mistake.
Show us that you have the courage of your convictions!
I don’t HAVE any convictions on this–I was not making a political argument, I was not making an argument for or against capitalism: I was just making an observation about the plot structure of the Thomas series. My post was misinterpreted as being some kind of anti-capitalist argument, which it absolutely was not, and since Bob has made it clear he has zero tolerance for political threads, I dumped it.
I always thought Thomas was a simple set of tales about an imaginary island where the industrail equipment had personalities. But then I thought Lassie was the story about a boy and his dog. I never caught the sub plot of the collie being a heron dealer.
Enjoy life, you can always get the satisfaction of knowing you are pissing off someone.
Ric Golding said:
I always thought Thomas was a simple set of tales about an imaginary island where the industrail equipment had personalities. But then I thought Lassie was the story about a boy and his dog. I never caught the sub plot of the collie being a heron dealer. ;-)Enjoy life, you can always get the satisfaction of knowing you are pissing off someone.
Its better than getting pissed on, I guess.
Ric Golding said:Yah, that heron is a killer. Just ask a fish. Bad enough that Lassie was a laddie ...
I never caught the sub plot of the collie being a heron dealer. ;-)