Why is a frog called a Frog?
Ditch
-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed or North American*
Lungshot1
Because it allows the wheels to "jump" from one set of track of rails to a
divergent route.
ED
Demetre Argiro
>Just curious....
Because it looks like a frog jumping when viewed straight on from the top. Frogs
are built up and incorporated into the turnout as it is built such that when a
frog is standing alone. . . . . . . . . . . .refer to sentence beginning. . . . .
It has nothing whatever to do with "jumping" from one track to another.
Don & Terri
This is just a guess. A switch frog is wedge shaped and if you look down at a frog frog it has the same shape. Or maybe
because the first switches were held together by Ribbits. <G>
Donnie Gene
"Before there was a high tech, there had to be a low tech" -- James Christensen
On 23 Aug 2000 08:07:14 GMT, gove...@aol.compost (Ditch) wrote:
>Just curious....
>
>
Wolf Kirchmeir
=>
=> This is just a guess. A switch frog is wedge shaped and if you look down at a frog frog it has the same shape. Or maybe
=>because the first switches were held together by Ribbits. <G>
=>
=>Donnie Gene
=>
=>"Before there was a high tech, there had to be a low tech" -- James Christensen
=>
Actually, it's called a frog because it resembles the underside of a horse's
hoof. That V-shaped area on the hoof is called a frog. Why _that_ is called a
frog, I don't know. Maybe a horse fancier can tell us. After all, this group
is about _iron_ horses. :-)
Best wishes,
Wolf Kirchmeir -- wol...@onlink.net
Blind River , Ontario
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: This is just a guess. A switch frog is wedge shaped and if you look down at a frog frog it has the same shape. Or maybe
: because the first switches were held together by Ribbits. <G>
and if you split it your train would "Croak"
Bob
dgross
Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
Were they Roman Charriott Horses?????????????
How wide were their ..... hooves??????
Couldn't resist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roger T. and Heather B.
Why is it called a "frog"? I don't know but I thought the 'correct' term
for it was "crossing".
Cheers
Roger T.
Sean S.
running over the amphibian of the same name...
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Ditch
>> =>
>> =>Donnie Gene
*Groan!* :-)
Nelson Kennedy
horse and got stomped on by the hoof you would croak.
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Wolf Kirchmeir <grey...@onlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:42:33 -0400, Don & Terri wrote:
>
> =>
> => This is just a guess. A switch frog is wedge shaped and if you look
down at a frog frog it has the same shape. Or maybe
> =>because the first switches were held together by Ribbits. <G>
> =>
> =>Donnie Gene
Wolf Kirchmeir
=>Why is it called a "frog"? I don't know but I thought the 'correct' term
=>for it was "crossing".
=>
=>Cheers
=>Roger T.
That's Brit usage -- you know, the people who call ties sleepers...
JimAllbery
argi...@mindspring.com (Demetre Argiro) wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2000 08:07:14 GMT, gove...@aol.compost
> (Ditch) wrote:
> >Just curious....
> straight on from the top. Frogs
> are built up and incorporated into the turnout as it
> is built such that when a
> frog is standing alone. . . . . . . . . . . .refer to
> sentence beginning. . . . .
> It has nothing whatever to do with "jumping" from one
> track to another.
Actually, "frog" comes from the Old High German "frosk"
which in turn was derived from the pre-12th century Sanskrit
verb "pravate" which means "he jumps up" (at least according
to Webster's). So if the suggestion above is correct, I
guess it *does* have something to do with jumping.
I don't know about the elastic, v-shaped part of a horse's
hoof-- perhaps someone thought it was what made a horse able
to jump. The "frog" that is part of a violin bow remains a
mystery as well.
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E&M
shunter, ties = sleepers, frog= crossing etc.......
Cheers,
Ewen
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D Wetmore
horse's hoof that is known as the frog. It is wedge shaped with a groove on
either side, just like the flangeways in a switch.
Here is a prototype (horse) photo:
http://www.horseshoes.com/anatomy/freeman/gallery/hoofstructurephoto.htm
and diagram:
http://www.horseshoes.com/anatomy/freeman/gallery/hoofstructurediagram.htm
Just don't ask me why they call it a frog on a horse!
Don Wetmore
dwet...@radiks.net
Ditch wrote:
> Just curious....
Ditch
>
>Don Wetmore
>dwet...@radiks.net
>
>
>Ditch wrote:
>
>> Just curious....
>>
>> -John
>> *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed or North
>American*
>
>
>
>
>
>Just don't ask me why they call it a frog on a horse!
>
>Don Wetmore
>dwet...@radiks.net
>
>
Before I scrolled down, that question was on my mind! :)
Wolf Kirchmeir
=>Not just Brits, but Canadains too. A switcher was often refered to as a
=>shunter, ties = sleepers, frog= crossing etc.......
=>
=>Cheers,
=>Ewen
Really? Where? I've never heard anything other than North American usage
here.
Could be that you've consulted a Brit-writtten book about Canadian RRs. I've
a couple of such books, and have dipped into them - they use Brit terms.
=>"Wolf Kirchmeir" <grey...@onlink.net> wrote in message
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=>> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:13:44 -0700, Roger T. and Heather B. wrote:
=>>
=>> =>Why is it called a "frog"? I don't know but I thought the 'correct'
=>term
=>> =>for it was "crossing".
=>> =>
=>> =>Cheers
=>> =>Roger T.
=>>
=>> That's Brit usage -- you know, the people who call ties sleepers...
Jim Holland
From *Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English
Language Unabridged* 1967, it seems that the languages from which the
English word *frog* is taken literally means *jumping, hopping.*
While it is true that there is such a *part* on a horse, I would really
wonder if that is where the railway usage came from.
Besides "any of various smooth-skinned web-footed tailess agile leaping
amphibians" and the horse-hoof part, a *frog* is also a device attached
to a belt for holding a weapon or tool; a front fastening for a garment;
a shallow place for mortar in the upper face of a brick; the frame or
block to which the share, moldboard, landside, or beam of a plow are
secured; the nut of a violin bow; junction of two branches of a flume;
etc.; etc.; etc.
I would *assume* that the use of *frog* in railway track (and trolley
pole overhead) came about from the very initial definition - the wheel
is jumping over another rail - but fortunately, the *frog* has been
designed to allow that jump to be very smooth!
D Wetmore wrote:
> A switch frog is called a frog because it is shaped like the central part of a
> horse's hoof that is known as the frog. It is wedge shaped with a groove on
> either side, just like the flangeways in a switch.
> Here is a prototype (horse) photo:
> http://www.horseshoes.com/anatomy/freeman/gallery/hoofstructurephoto.htm
> and diagram:
> http://www.horseshoes.com/anatomy/freeman/gallery/hoofstructurediagram.htm
> Just don't ask me why they call it a frog on a horse!
> Don Wetmore
> dwet...@radiks.net
James B. Holland
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Dick Ganderton
modellers - for that part of a turnout properly called the "Common
Crossing". This is made up of four rails - one point, one splice and two
wing rails. The point and splice rails are bolted together to form the
"Vee".
Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:13:44 -0700, Roger T. and Heather B. wrote:
>
> =>Why is it called a "frog"? I don't know but I thought the 'correct' term
> =>for it was "crossing".
> =>
> =>Cheers
> =>Roger T.
Jon Miller
NMRA Bulletin.
The other two inventions that George Westinghouse contributed to
railroading. Frogs for switches (turnouts) and re-railing frogs! If George
invented it he probably named it!
Jon Miller
being the NMRA they would have checked the answer closer. But then it is a
long time ago. Attempted to do a search on the web site but it only goes
back to 1976.
It is possible he had a patent on a type of frog and not sure how that
would have been handled between UK and US at that time in history.
E&M
generations. Even one of my cousins was that last conductor on the very last
train before the line shut down tin 1989. They called ties sleepers or
ties, switchers were shunters or switchers that went out shunting, etc....
It was not some book I read. Maybe the strong British influence. The line
was first built in colonial days and the first engines were British as in
many other parts of the country, but were found to be too light and later
replaced by American 4-4-0s.
Cheers,
Ewen
Wolf Kirchmeir" <grey...@onlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:44:34 -0300, E&M wrote:
>
> =>Not just Brits, but Canadains too. A switcher was often refered to as a
> =>shunter, ties = sleepers, frog= crossing etc.......
> =>
> =>Cheers,
> =>Ewen
>
> Really? Where? I've never heard anything other than North American usage
> here.
>
> Could be that you've consulted a Brit-writtten book about Canadian RRs.
I've
> a couple of such books, and have dipped into them - they use Brit terms.
>
> =>"Wolf Kirchmeir" <grey...@onlink.net> wrote in message
> =>news:jbysxvebayvaxarg...@news.onlink.net...
> =>> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:13:44 -0700, Roger T. and Heather B. wrote:
> =>>
> =>> =>Why is it called a "frog"? I don't know but I thought the
'correct'
> =>term
> =>> =>for it was "crossing".
> =>> =>
> =>> =>Cheers
> =>> =>Roger T.
> =>>
> =>> That's Brit usage -- you know, the people who call ties sleepers...
D Wetmore
If you have any doubts about the origin, go to a local stable and ask to see the
bottom of a horse's hoof. Once you see the frog on a horse, there will be no doubt
in your mind that it was the origin of the railroad term. I should know. We own two
horses, and I clean their hooves on a regular basis. To do this requires a tool
called a hoof pick. It has a narrow head in order to clean out the "flangeways" of
the hoof (actually called bars), which are shaped exactly like the flangeways in a
switch frog. If you stop and think about it, it really makes a lot of sense. Back in
the 1820's-30's when railroads came on the scene, most people were very familiar
with horses as a necessity of day to day living. When they saw a railroad switch
they would have made an immediate assocation with the similar part on a horse.
If you have any remaining doubt check out the following: Once again look at the hoof
diagram and notice that the wide part at the back of the frog is referred to as the
heel. Then crack open your dictionary again and see that in railroad terminology the
end of a frog farthest from the switch (the wide part) is also known as the heel.
Coincidence? I think not.
Jumping amphibians (or wheels) had nothing to do with it.
Don Wetmore
dwet...@radiks.net
NMRA life member #2946
Jim Holland
I have no doubt about a horse having a frog in his hoof and the way
that it looks (cheese-whiz, I did quote that part from the dictionary!)
-- but that doesn't mean that the railroad frog was named for
*that-part* of the horse' anatomy!!::>) Could have been, but I would
like a little more evidence to back it up - and looking at the hoof of a
horse is not going to do it! Railroad journals with such information
would be far more conclusive.
One can also say that the 4-pieces of rail emanating from a railroad
frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that is the
reason it is called a frog!
Martin Fouts
'frog' came to be a railroading term, but it does cite the first use of the
term as being in a 1847 patent, suggesting that while Westinghouse may have
invented and patented some form of frog, he doesn't seem to have coined the
term.
I have found "The frog and switch" company on the net -- They don't make
frogs any more, but they claim they did for 100 years, so I sent an email to
them asking if they could shed any light on the origin of the term. I'll
report back if I hear from them.
TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39A736AC...@home.com...
> Some of old George's inventions, etc.:
>
> http://www.westinghouse.com/corp/george.shtml
>
> Observing the problems and limitations of stopping trains by
> manually-operated brakes, he devised a method of using brakes
> actuated by compressed air. He turned this idea into the
> Westinghouse Air Brake Company, founded in 1869.
>
> Then with the vast increase in rail traffic and development of
> railroad yards, he recognized the need for better signaling devices
> and interlocking switches. He believed that great improvements
> could be made by using a combination of compressed air and
> electricity. He turned those ideas into the Union Switch and Signal
> Company, founded in 1881.
> --------------------------
>
> http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0175/01942272_A.html
>
> Westinghouse was born on Oct. 6, 1846, in Central Bridge,
> N.Y. The son of a manufacturer of farm implements, he explored
> the world of machines at an early age. After serving in both the
> Union Army and the Navy in the Civil War, Westinghouse
> received in 1865 his first patent--for a rotary steam engine. In that
> same year he invented a device for replacing derailed freight
> cars on their tracks.
>
> Railroad problems fascinated Westinghouse. Among his other
> inventions was a device called a frog that allowed wheels on one
> rail of a track to cross an intersecting rail. He bought various
> patents on railroad switches and signals and combined them
> with his own developments into an efficient switching system. He
> also devised safe methods to distribute natural gas.
>
> The air brake, his greatest invention, was patented in 1869, the
> same year he organized the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
> With various design improvements, the air brake became widely
> accepted, and the Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893 made
> them compulsory on trains in the United States.
> ---------------------------------
>
> <><><> TOM <><><>
> Proud Member Of The Haggis
>
Christopher A. Lee
Considering he was born in 1846 and they had been in use in
1838 to my knowledge (on the GWR although they weren't called
frogs), he muust have been a very precocious child.
Frank A. Rosenbaum
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Jim Holland <pgh...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Greetings!
>
> From *Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English
> Language Unabridged* 1967, it seems that the languages from which the
> English word *frog* is taken literally means *jumping, hopping.*
> While it is true that there is such a *part* on a horse, I would really
> wonder if that is where the railway usage came from.
> Besides "any of various smooth-skinned web-footed tailess agile leaping
> amphibians" and the horse-hoof part, a *frog* is also a device attached
> to a belt for holding a weapon or tool; a front fastening for a garment;
> a shallow place for mortar in the upper face of a brick; the frame or
> block to which the share, moldboard, landside, or beam of a plow are
> secured; the nut of a violin bow; junction of*** two branches of a
flume***;
> etc.; etc.; etc.
>
> I would *assume* that the use of *frog* in railway track (and trolley
> pole overhead) came about from the very initial definition - the wheel
> is jumping over another rail - but fortunately, the *frog* has been
> designed to allow that jump to be very smooth!
>
> D Wetmore wrote:
>
> > A switch frog is called a frog because it is shaped like the central
part of a
> > horse's hoof that is known as the frog. It is wedge shaped with a groove
on
> > either side, just like the flangeways in a switch.
>
> > Here is a prototype (horse) photo:
> > http://www.horseshoes.com/anatomy/freeman/gallery/hoofstructurephoto.htm
>
> > and diagram:
> >
http://www.horseshoes.com/anatomy/freeman/gallery/hoofstructurediagram.htm
>
> > Just don't ask me why they call it a frog on a horse!
>
> > Don Wetmore
> > dwet...@radiks.net
TOM
Nelson Kennedy
> frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that is the
> reason it is called a frog!
Any thoughts as to why the sharp end of a turnout got lumbered with toe(d)?
:-)
All Green Ahead
<nel...@chch.planet.org.nz> wrote:
>>> One can also say that the 4-pieces of rail emanating from a railroad
>>> frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that is the
>>> reason it is called a frog!
>>
>>Any thoughts as to why the sharp end of a turnout got lumbered with toe(d)?
>>:-)
At least they used bolts and not ribbits to fasten the frog to the
rail.
sam
Don Dellmann
D Wetmore <dwet...@radiks.net> wrote in message
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> Jim -
> If you have any remaining doubt check out the following: Once again look
at the hoof
> diagram and notice that the wide part at the back of the frog is referred
to as the
> heel. Then crack open your dictionary again and see that in railroad
terminology the
> end of a frog farthest from the switch (the wide part) is also known as
the heel.
> Coincidence? I think not.
>
> Jumping amphibians (or wheels) had nothing to do with it.
>
I'd forgotten about the heel. When you add that to the equation, I think
this is the most logical explanation yet. Add still another fact, since the
first tramways were horse drawn.....
"By George, I think he's got it"
Don
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All Green Ahead
<dom.de...@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>>I'd forgotten about the heel. When you add that to the equation, I think
>>this is the most logical explanation yet. Add still another fact, since the
>>first tramways were horse drawn.....
Maybe they named the frog of a horse after the frog in the
turnout...
not.
sam
John W Nehrich
Whistler (the father of the painter who's portrait of his mother is
famous, so he must have been married to that woman in the rocking chair)
invented the whistle, hence the name. The guy (I think George Whistler)
was a big-wig on the Long Island railroad, but Ben Franklin wrote a story
about a penny whistle, so the term and concept must pre-date railroading.
For my two cents, a frog is so named because it looks like a
stretched out Kermit. The other terms people have come up with, like the
frog on a horse's hoof, suggest it was a common name applied to a V or
maybe a narrow X shape, kind of like "Jack" for different types of
machinery, or "crow" for a common bird (like "as a crow flies" or
"crowstep gable").
- John
TOM
>
> > One can also say that the 4-pieces of rail emanating from a railroad
> > frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that is the
> > reason it is called a frog!
>
> Any thoughts as to why the sharp end of a turnout got lumbered with toe(d)?
> :-)
>
> Nelson Kennedy,
> Christchurch, New Zealand.
> 0 gauge NZR trains & Espee H0 at http://downunder.railfan.net
> Products for 0 gauge NZR (close to 1:32) at http://ninemill.railfan.net
Switches also have wings, so now we have the response to the old adage,
"And if frogs had wings they could fly!"
Frogs, heels, toes, wings, it's beginning to sound like a menu!!! :>))
Then model railroaders come along and hit us with turnout instead
of switch!!! :>))
TOM
>
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:26:16 +1200, "Nelson Kennedy"
>
> >>> One can also say that the 4-pieces of rail emanating from a railroad
> >>> frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that is the
> >>> reason it is called a frog!
> >>
> >>Any thoughts as to why the sharp end of a turnout got lumbered with toe(d)?
> >>:-)
>
> rail.
>
> sam
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! :>))
Speaking of frogs, does "All Green Ahead" refer to an upcoming Muppet
Movie starring Kermit and his family??? :>))
Lungshot1
>Movie starring Kermit and his family??? :>))
No way....."all green ahead" is really a warning that a train has jumped the
points and crushed the frog!
ED
All Green Ahead
>>No way....."all green ahead" is really a warning that a train has jumped the
>>points and crushed the frog!
Wart you guys please stop it.
sam
Wolf Kirchmeir
[answering my guess that he read these Brit terms in a book about Canadian
rrs:}
=>No not at all. Grew up in PEI. Railwaying part of my family for
=>generations. Even one of my cousins was that last conductor on the very last
=>train before the line shut down tin 1989. They called ties sleepers or
=>ties, switchers were shunters or switchers that went out shunting, etc....
=>It was not some book I read. Maybe the strong British influence. The line
=>was first built in colonial days and the first engines were British as in
=>many other parts of the country, but were found to be too light and later
=>replaced by American 4-4-0s.
=>
=>Cheers,
=>Ewen
Thanks for this interstsing sidelight on Can., rr history. The fact that the
US terms were used elsewhere in Canada prob. ties in with the fact that most
the rrs there were built by Americans.
Still would like to know why CN called a caboose a van, though. Didn't PRRR
call them vans, too?
In ref to the frog question: OED's earliest recorded use in a patent
application indicates that the term was already in use, so we'll never know
for sure why a frog is called a frog. Me, I'll go with the horse's hoof
theory. I just like it better. :-)
Frank A. Rosenbaum
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TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39A7DF04...@home.com...
> All Green Ahead wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:26:16 +1200, "Nelson Kennedy"
> > <nel...@chch.planet.org.nz> wrote:
> >
> > >>> One can also say that the 4-pieces of rail emanating from a railroad
> > >>> frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that is
the
> > >>> reason it is called a frog!
> > >>
> > >>Any thoughts as to why the sharp end of a turnout got lumbered with
toe(d)?
> > >>:-)
> >
> > At least they used bolts and not ribbits to fasten the frog to the
> > rail.
> >
> > sam
>
> Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! :>))
>
> Speaking of frogs, does "All Green Ahead" refer to an upcoming Muppet
> Movie starring Kermit and his family??? :>))
>
Yes, it does, at least that is what they toad me.
E&M
Canada. We call it a conductor's vand and Brits the guard's van.
Cheers,
Ewen
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Geert Marien
that "point", and your engines "croaked" while passing over the "frog". :-)
Geert
TOM
used in the Back To The Future movies... :>))
Maybe they should have named it a "Frog Capacitor." ... :>))
TOM
>
> Again "van" is a British term as is railway, both adopted by our lines
>
> Cheers,
> Ewen
Van as in Vangard
Van as in Caravan
TOM
Are you the Italian singer who did, "Three Frogs In The Fountain" ???
:>))
TOM
>
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> TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39A7DF04...@home.com...
> > >
> > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:26:16 +1200, "Nelson Kennedy"
> > > <nel...@chch.planet.org.nz> wrote:
> > >
> > > >>> One can also say that the 4-pieces of rail emanating from a railroad
> > > >>> frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that is
> the
> > > >>> reason it is called a frog!
> > > >>
> > > >>Any thoughts as to why the sharp end of a turnout got lumbered with
> toe(d)?
> > > >>:-)
> > >
> > > At least they used bolts and not ribbits to fasten the frog to the
> > > rail.
> > >
> > > sam
> >
> > Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! :>))
> >
> > Speaking of frogs, does "All Green Ahead" refer to an upcoming Muppet
> > Movie starring Kermit and his family??? :>))
> >
>
> Yes, it does, at least that is what they toad me.
>
> > Proud Member Of The Haggis
Ah, I see you took the wizard's parking stall too!!! :>))
TOM
I think this thread is about to croak as well... :>)
Remember, amphibians have feelings too!!! :>))
Duane gump
From the latin word for a item used to hang a sword on a belt, and which a
turnout frog resembles.
Aredeer
Nelson Kennedy
toe(d)?
> >>:-)
>
> tie bar.
>
They did? I thought they used toe nails.
Nelson Kennedy
> Then model railroaders come along and hit us with turnout instead
> of switch!!! :>))
What's the point in that?
John W Nehrich
contraction of "caravan".
Probably horse hooves having a part called a frog goes back to when
railroads were just starting, and a rail frog might be named after both.
And we still haven't found out why the horse frog was so called.
And that raises another question. Imagine you are living in 1830. What
would you call this set of rails? If you had a stack of these, they might
look like a stack of stretched out frogs, drying in the sun, although did
they dry frogs back then?
In Victorian times, the English referred to the French as "frogs" from the
use of them for food (the amphibians, that is) - and it was an insult.
But if we want to question names, why a "gondola"? Obviously, from the
Venice boat idea, but why was that called a gondola. Or hopper? I think
there may be a corruption of hoop/hood.
And who was Murphy, whose name was used for a type of box car end? Or
Andrews, of freight car truck fame?
- John
TOM
>
> So the answer is: we don't know.
Exactly!!! :>))
A switch has a frog (PERIOD). How it got the name is an interesting
study, but not a matter of life or death...
Makes for fun reading, however...
TOM
Actually, they used troll nails... :>))
TOM
These troll-like one line answers are becoming a Hobbitt with some of
us... :>))
Just check here if you don't believe me:
http://www.mi.uib.no/~respl/tolkien/
"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit".
TOM
Tom Madden
[big snip]
>And who was Murphy, whose name was used for a type of box car end? Or
>Andrews, of freight car truck fame?
Murphy was also the inventor of a concoction of chopped cabbage and sour
cream. It was called "Murphy's Slaw".
IIRC Murphy roofs were called "Murphy patent roofs", so I presume someone
named Murphy held the patent on various car parts. I also don't ever recall
seeing Murphy and Andrews uncapitalized, which would indicate there were
real people behind the names.
Did Ethelred the Unready invent Viking roofs?
Tom Madden
Urologist: "We're using a smaller instrument for the biopsy this time."
Me: "I can tell."
Nurse: "That's his finger."
Michael Usoff
TOM wrote:
>
> Aredeer wrote:
> >
> > So the answer is: we don't know.
>
> Exactly!!! :>))
>
> A switch has a frog (PERIOD). How it got the name is an interesting
> study, but not a matter of life or death...
>
> Makes for fun reading, however...
>
Demetre Argiro
>Might be as simple as looking like a frog!! :>)) Mike U.
Another poster in another unrelated message said:
> . . . . For once the
>Frogs were smart and didn't start production on the trains themselves. . . .
What does this mean? What are Frogs that build trains? I have a sneaking
suspicion that it may not be frogs at all but something else. This frog thing is
starting to look like haggis.
OH God! OOOPS! I said it. Oh No!
it's time for me to. . . . . . Split the Group
Frank A. Rosenbaum
--
Frank R.
Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39A84065...@home.com...
> "Frank A. Rosenbaum" wrote:
> >
> > --
> > Frank R.
> > Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
> > TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message
news:39A7DF04...@home.com...
> > > All Green Ahead wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:26:16 +1200, "Nelson Kennedy"
> > > > <nel...@chch.planet.org.nz> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >>> One can also say that the 4-pieces of rail emanating from a
railroad
> > > > >>> frog look like an out-stretched amphibian-frog jumping and that
is
> > the
> > > > >>> reason it is called a frog!
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Any thoughts as to why the sharp end of a turnout got lumbered
with
> > toe(d)?
> > > > >>:-)
> > > >
> > > > At least they used bolts and not ribbits to fasten the frog to the
> > > > rail.
> > > >
> > > > sam
> > >
> > > Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! :>))
> > >
> > > Speaking of frogs, does "All Green Ahead" refer to an upcoming Muppet
> > > Movie starring Kermit and his family??? :>))
> > >
> >
> > Yes, it does, at least that is what they toad me.
> >
> > > <><><> TOM <><><>
> > > Proud Member Of The Haggis
>
> Ah, I see you took the wizard's parking stall too!!! :>))
>
It took me a moment to figure your remark out, but I did.
I take the stall, but it is not all it is croaked up to be. Did you know he
had a small parking meter there too? It was on a short post as well, kind of
like a tad pole.
Michael Usoff
TOM wrote:
>
> "Frank A. Rosenbaum" wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it does, at least that is what they toad me.
> > > >
> > > > > <><><> TOM <><><>
> > > > > Proud Member Of The Haggis
> > >
> > > Ah, I see you took the wizard's parking stall too!!! :>))
> > >
> > It took me a moment to figure your remark out, but I did.
> > I take the stall, but it is not all it is croaked up to be. Did you know he
> > had a small parking meter there too? It was on a short post as well, kind of
> > like a tad pole.
> >
> > > <><><> TOM <><><>
> > > Proud Member Of The Haggis
>
> "Violators will be toad."
TOM
If it's any help, my kids used to play Frogger a lot... :>))
TOM
>
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:43:32 GMT, argi...@mindspring.com (Demetre
> Argiro) wrote:
>
> >What does this mean? What are Frogs that build trains? I have a sneaking
> >suspicion that it may not be frogs at all but something else. This frog thing is
> >starting to look like haggis.
> >OH God! OOOPS! I said it. Oh No!
> >it's time for me to. . . . . . Split the Group
>
> about 10 weeks so its time some relative newbie suggests it. Seems to
> happen every September anyway after school opens.
>
> We'll just have to dig out our canned retorts for reposting that must
> be at least 6 years old...
>
> Ray H.
However, if we split it, we must make sure it doesn't split any wider
than two Roman Chariot horses' arses... :>))
I'd gauge (gage, scale?) that to be about the right width... :>))
TOM
>
> > >
> > > Yes, it does, at least that is what they toad me.
> > >
> > > > Proud Member Of The Haggis
> >
> >
> It took me a moment to figure your remark out, but I did.
> I take the stall, but it is not all it is croaked up to be. Did you know he
> had a small parking meter there too? It was on a short post as well, kind of
> like a tad pole.
>
> > Proud Member Of The Haggis
"Violators will be toad."
Nelson Kennedy
> However, if we split it, we must make sure it doesn't split any wider
> than two Roman Chariot horses' arses... :>))
>
> I'd gauge (gage, scale?) that to be about the right width... :>))
That could turnout about right.
Demetre Argiro
> However, if we split it, we must make sure it doesn't split any wider
> than two Roman Chariot horses' arses... :>))
Too many years ago to count I was in Sydney at a public house with some of my
mates having a few pints. The barmaid was a redheaded woman with a strange accent.
I remarked to her that she didn't sound like she was from Australia, but rather
more like Scotland.
"That's right'" she said, "How can you tell?"
"By the way you roll your Rs," I said
"Oh!" she said, blushing,"It must be these high heels."
Frank A. Rosenbaum
I think Nurse Diesel has been away too long.
--
Frank R.
Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
The train club I belong to is the Gratiot Valley. See us at:
http://www.michvhf.com/~gvrr
TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39AB2F3...@home.com...
Jim Shewbridge
I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
anyone I want. There's a loud bunch of guys in the corner, rolling-on-
the-floor drunk, talking to each other about frogs, toads, roman
chariot horses asses, bog standards, and something called a "haggis".
If y'all don't mind me asking, what's a haggis?
- Jim
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Demetre Argiro
>
>
>I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
>RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
>anyone I want.
Uhh, Yep. That pretty much sums it up.
If you want in. . . . . . you just jump in.
'Sbetter than a public house 'cause theres no curfew and no limit :-)
Every once in a while some of us even talk about trains!
Nah! can ya believe it?
>There's a loud bunch of guys in the corner, rolling-on-
>the-floor drunk, talking to each other about frogs, toads, roman
>chariot horses asses, bog standards, and something called a "haggis".
>If y'all don't mind me asking, what's a haggis?
>
>- Jim
What's a haggis? What's a HAGGIS he says!
Oh my God!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Uh, ahem... that is, well, er,ah, mmm, Oh, a Haggis. I thought you said something
else.
uh, lets see. A haggis you say? Uh, yes, well, ah, it's just a thing they use in
Scotland to, ...ah,... lubricate the bearings on passenger cars. Yes, that's it.
they use it on passenger cars. Pretty neat huh?
You don't really to go into much detail if you model American stuff. You know, it
isn't widely used over here.
Well..OK...ah..So much for haggis. what's next? how 'bout a discussion on steam
VS diesel with regard to axle loadings. Yes, That sounds like fun.
Demetre Argiro
Oh, I almost forgot, bog standard is a corruption [alledged by some sources] of
box standard which merely means straight out of the box as built with no changes.
Sort of analogous [in a British sort of way] to RTR.
I said that I was going to use it as box standard instead of bog standard. So far
no one has sicced either G.B. Shaw or W. Churchill on me.
Frank A. Rosenbaum
--
Frank R.
Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
The train club I belong to is the Gratiot Valley. See us at:
http://www.michvhf.com/~gvrr
Jim Shewbridge <sh...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8oggpa$9ej$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
>
>
> I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
> RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
> anyone I want. There's a loud bunch of guys in the corner, rolling-on-
> the-floor drunk, talking to each other about frogs, toads, roman
> chariot horses asses, bog standards, and something called a "haggis".
> If y'all don't mind me asking, what's a haggis?
>
> - Jim
>
Oh, Jim, we don't mind. You will, but we don't. Pull up a bar stool, set a
spell, have a cold one on me. (as long as you are not driving). You will get
an ear full, as well as a stomach ache listening to the guys in the corner
extoll the virtues (if any) of haggis.
Stefan Banaszak
As long as you don't spell it g-u-a-g-e !
Bill Banaszak
Jeff Scarbrough
wrote:
>
>
>I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
>RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
>anyone I want. There's a loud bunch of guys in the corner, rolling-on-
>the-floor drunk, talking to each other about frogs, toads, roman
>chariot horses asses, bog standards, and something called a "haggis".
>If y'all don't mind me asking, what's a haggis?
Oh, my. You've gone and done it now...
Jeff Scarbrough Proud Charter Member Athens, Georgia
CEO and Section Gang, Piedmont and Southern Railroad
http://members.home.net/p-srr/
http://serr.railfan.net http://smrf.railfan.net/SMRF
Jeff Scarbrough
Argiro) wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:19:45 GMT, Jim Shewbridge <sh...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
>>RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
>>anyone I want.
>
>Uhh, Yep. That pretty much sums it up.
>If you want in. . . . . . you just jump in.
>'Sbetter than a public house 'cause theres no curfew and no limit :-)
And rarely does anyone throw up on your shoes...
Dano
Nelson Kennedy <nel...@chch.planet.org.nz> wrote in message
news:zHLq5.1465$eZ8a.5...@news.xtra.co.nz...
> TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39AB2EE5...@home.com...
>
> > However, if we split it, we must make sure it doesn't split any wider
> > than two Roman Chariot horses' arses... :>))
> >
> > I'd gauge (gage, scale?) that to be about the right width... :>))
>
>
Aww right, you guys. I get more than enough of *that* stuff over on
alt.humor.puns.;-}
Dano
> RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
> the-floor drunk, talking to each other about frogs, toads, roman
> chariot horses asses, bog standards, and something called a "haggis".
> If y'all don't mind me asking, what's a haggis?
>
If you *must* know, listen to Max describe it in the movie "Armageddon." I'd
tell you, but it would make me sick to my stomach.
Dano
TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39A840BF...@home.com...
> Geert Marien wrote:
> >
> > Ah, that's easy ... because in the early days, electrical contact was
bad at
> > that "point", and your engines "croaked" while passing over the "frog".
:-)
> >
> > Geert
>
> I think this thread is about to croak as well... :>)
>
> Remember, amphibians have feelings too!!! :>))
>
> <><><> TOM <><><>
> Proud Member Of The Haggis
After reading this whole thread, I am convinced you guys are on the wrong
newsgroup. You need to "Get Thee To A Punnery'" (Richard Lederer book of
puns,) by going to alt.humor.puns.
Rusty Keeney
>I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
>RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
>anyone I want. There's a loud bunch of guys in the corner, rolling-on-
>the-floor drunk, talking to each other about frogs, toads, roman
>chariot horses asses, bog standards, and something called a "haggis".
>If y'all don't mind me asking, what's a haggis?
>
>
Oh, no! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO ASK?!
TOM
>
> Bill Banaszak
Oops, my spil chucker missed that one...
Let's see, where's the add button??? :>))
TOM
>
> Witch is better, to be toad something, or to be toad away?
>
> I think Nurse Diesel has been away too long.
>
> --
> Frank R.
And she is vewy, vewy upset... :>))
TOM
TOM
>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:19:45 GMT, Jim Shewbridge <sh...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> box standard which merely means straight out of the box as built with no changes.
> Sort of analogous [in a British sort of way] to RTR.
>
> I said that I was going to use it as box standard instead of bog standard. So far
> no one has sicced either G.B. Shaw or W. Churchill on me.
In the US of A, in referring to automobiles, they would say "Box stock."
Michael Usoff
there are those who would extol it's virtues to the world, but, they are
addicts!! However, they do exhibit a rather droll sense of humour,
probably from the haggis after effects. If, you were to ask a sensible
question, they would probably be the ones who had the answers!! Albeit,
mixed in with haggis and other whatnots. :>)) Mike U.
Jim Shewbridge wrote:
>
> I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
> RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
> anyone I want. There's a loud bunch of guys in the corner, rolling-on-
> the-floor drunk, talking to each other about frogs, toads, roman
> chariot horses asses, bog standards, and something called a "haggis".
> If y'all don't mind me asking, what's a haggis?
>
> - Jim
>
Frank A. Rosenbaum
--
Frank R.
Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
The train club I belong to is the Gratiot Valley. See us at:
http://www.michvhf.com/~gvrr
TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39AC801D...@home.com...
> "Frank A. Rosenbaum" wrote:
> >
> > Witch is better, to be toad something, or to be toad away?
> >
> > I think Nurse Diesel has been away too long.
> >
> > --
> > Frank R.
>
> And she is vewy, vewy upset... :>))
>
!She's upset? !She's upset? How do you think *I* feel. I need my meds, and
they are locked in the glass cabinet, with the fire axe next to . . . . Hey,
are you thinking what I'm thinkin'?
Well, I hope she comes back soon. I loved talking to her anyway. She kept
agreeing with everything I say, and then gives me things to make me feel
good, and sleepy.
Frank A. Rosenbaum
--
Frank R.
Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
The train club I belong to is the Gratiot Valley. See us at:
http://www.michvhf.com/~gvrr
TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message news:39AC7F8D...@home.com...
I've never heard that expression either. No car that I am familiar with
comes in a box.
I heard about one backwoods dweller who bought a station wagon with the wood
trim on the outside. A few hours after he got it home, he called the dealer,
and told them that the car was defective, all scratched up and didn't look
very good. They told him to bring it back so they could see it. When he did,
ALL the wood trim had been removed. When asked about it, the backwoodsman
replied that all he did was to remove the 'packing crate' from the car.
Frank A. Rosenbaum
--
Frank R.
Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
The train club I belong to is the Gratiot Valley. See us at:
http://www.michvhf.com/~gvrr
Dano <oldf...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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>
> Nelson Kennedy <nel...@chch.planet.org.nz> wrote in message
> news:zHLq5.1465$eZ8a.5...@news.xtra.co.nz...
> > TOM <tom...@home.com> wrote in message
news:39AB2EE5...@home.com...
> >
> > > However, if we split it, we must make sure it doesn't split any wider
> > > than two Roman Chariot horses' arses... :>))
> > >
> > > I'd gauge (gage, scale?) that to be about the right width... :>))
> >
> >
> > That could turnout about right.
>
> Aww right, you guys. I get more than enough of *that* stuff over on
> alt.humor.puns.;-}
>
Can we *point* you in the proper direction? (G)
TOM
>
> --
> Frank R.
> Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
> The train club I belong to is the Gratiot Valley. See us at:
> http://www.michvhf.com/~gvrr
> comes in a box.
>
> I heard about one backwoods dweller who bought a station wagon with the wood
> trim on the outside. A few hours after he got it home, he called the dealer,
> and told them that the car was defective, all scratched up and didn't look
> very good. They told him to bring it back so they could see it. When he did,
> ALL the wood trim had been removed. When asked about it, the backwoodsman
> replied that all he did was to remove the 'packing crate' from the car.
> > Proud Member Of The Haggis
Here's some box stock URL fer ya... :>))
http://www.slotcar.net/results/usra-div-1/11211055.htm
http://www.squadron.com/scalefest/box.stock.html
http://www.vallejospeedway2.com/results/result-boxstock.html
Box Rollingstock... :>))
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/rolling3.html
Jim Shewbridge
You guys were right. I don't have the guts for it. I think I just
threw up on somebody's shoes. Uh-oh, they're mine!
John Stephens
>In the US of A, in referring to automobiles, they would say "Box stock."
How about the term "showroom stock"? I think that is even a SCCA racing
classification.
JohnStephens
A Haggister
Carl Zager
Don't know why the second one didn't duck.
In article <39ac2fbb.195279553@news>,
nob...@nowhere.com (Jeff Scarbrough) wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:18:15 GMT, argi...@mindspring.com (Demetre
> Argiro) wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:19:45 GMT, Jim Shewbridge <sh...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>I've begun to think of this NG as a bar that I've just walked into (a
> >>RR modeler's bar, are there any?) where I can start a talking to
> >>anyone I want.
> >
> >Uhh, Yep. That pretty much sums it up.
> >If you want in. . . . . . you just jump in.
> >'Sbetter than a public house 'cause theres no curfew and no limit :-)
>
> And rarely does anyone throw up on your shoes...
>
> Jeff Scarbrough Proud Charter Member Athens, Georgia
> CEO and Section Gang, Piedmont and Southern Railroad
> http://members.home.net/p-srr/
> http://serr.railfan.net http://smrf.railfan.net/SMRF
>
--
Carl Zager
http://www.mccsc.edu/~czager
kb9...@my-deja.com
C.L.Zeni
Judge says, "My good man, you've been brought here for drinking."
Drunk says, "OK Judge, lesh get started."
--
Craig Zeni - REPLY TO -->> clzeni at mindspring dot com
http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/index.html
http://www.trainweb.org/zeniphotos/zenihome.html
I hear Ginko Biloba's good for memory, but
I can't remember to take the pills.
C.L.Zeni
It's like the guy we all know, The Man Whose Name Can Not Be Said, for
at the first mention of it, the guys appears, conjured up like a bad
dream.
Now if you'll 'scuse me, I have to go detail a scene with a guy throwing
up on somebody else's shoes.
Craig "Ralph" Zeni
Porcelain Bus, Nawth Cacalacky
Chris Vernell
>
>
> Now if you'll 'scuse me, I have to go detail a scene with a guy throwing
> up on somebody else's shoes.
>
> Craig "Ralph" Zeni
> Porcelain Bus, Nawth Cacalacky
Does that not equate to glorifying graffiti, hoboes, hookers, drunks and
robber barons? Is it morally acceptable? Clearly, model railroads are
but the first step on the primrose path to perdition, and must be
suppressed. They are a threat to the moral fibre of our nation.
C.L.Zeni
Boy it sure does equate. Moral torpitude. Dogs and cats living
together.
One of our guys did a module with a building that had a little bitty
Playboy centerfold stuck on the back wall of one room...
Disorganized
"Robert Listenfer" wrote
> Sin. Sin. Sin. That's what it comes down to. Grafitti as
> "Fine Art", supported by the Federal Government. Deviants portrayed
> as "normal" on train layouts. Floosies and bar-girls glorified in a
> red light district. Tobacco. Tobacco. Tobacco. Sin.
> Whiskey. Whiskey. Whiskey. YOU explain it to YOUR children.
>
> Spam. Spam. Spam. Glorified as "Free Speech".
> Cartoons where children make fun of their parents and their teachers.
> Parents not able to be parents. Teachers not able to teach.
> Children no longer able to play out their fantasies without a real
> gun. Television glorifying Sin in the name of entertainment.
>
> Folks laugh when you mention Sin. They make fun of preachers.
> Fathers depicted in commercials as stupid boobs. Dogs laughing at
> their master' insurance bill. Everybody eating at Red Lobster.
> Gasoline at $1.70 a gallon. Sin.
>
> Robert Listenfer
You neglected to mention those god awful sinners---the Keno-playing
Gamblers! :-)
Robert Listenfer
>Chris Vernell wrote:
>>
>> "C.L.Zeni" wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Now if you'll 'scuse me, I have to go detail a scene with a guy throwing
>> > up on somebody else's shoes.
>> >
>> > Craig "Ralph" Zeni
>> > Porcelain Bus, Nawth Cacalacky
>>
>> Does that not equate to glorifying graffiti, hoboes, hookers, drunks and
>> robber barons? Is it morally acceptable? Clearly, model railroads are
>> but the first step on the primrose path to perdition, and must be
>> suppressed. They are a threat to the moral fibre of our nation.
>
>Boy it sure does equate. Moral torpitude. Dogs and cats living
>together.
>
>One of our guys did a module with a building that had a little bitty
>Playboy centerfold stuck on the back wall of one room...
>--
> Craig Zeni
Sin. Sin. Sin. That's what it comes down to. Grafitti as
Christian
> Sin. Sin. Sin. That's what it comes down to. Floosies and
bar-girls glorified in a
> red light district.
So, "Robert," do you recall what hookers looked like in the 40's?
Christian
Brockport
TOM
>
> Chris Vernell wrote:
> >
> > "C.L.Zeni" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Now if you'll 'scuse me, I have to go detail a scene with a guy throwing
> > > up on somebody else's shoes.
> > >
> > > Craig "Ralph" Zeni
> > > Porcelain Bus, Nawth Cacalacky
> >
> > Does that not equate to glorifying graffiti, hoboes, hookers, drunks and
> > robber barons? Is it morally acceptable? Clearly, model railroads are
> > but the first step on the primrose path to perdition, and must be
> > suppressed. They are a threat to the moral fibre of our nation.
>
> Boy it sure does equate. Moral torpitude. Dogs and cats living
> together.
>
> One of our guys did a module with a building that had a little bitty
> Playboy centerfold stuck on the back wall of one room...
> --
> Craig Zeni
"Dam* the torpitudes, full speed ahead!"
TOM
They couldn't look nearly as bad as they would in their 50's or 60's!!!
What's that?
He was talking about the 1940's?
Well why didn't he say so!!!
He did???
NURSE!!!
TOM
>
> --
> Frank R.
> Note New EMAIL address: faros...@mediaone.net
> The train club I belong to is the Gratiot Valley. See us at:
> http://www.michvhf.com/~gvrr
> > "Frank A. Rosenbaum" wrote:
> > >
> > > Witch is better, to be toad something, or to be toad away?
> > >
> > > I think Nurse Diesel has been away too long.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Frank R.
> >
> > And she is vewy, vewy upset... :>))
> >
> they are locked in the glass cabinet, with the fire axe next to . . . . Hey,
> are you thinking what I'm thinkin'?
>
> Well, I hope she comes back soon. I loved talking to her anyway. She kept
> agreeing with everything I say, and then gives me things to make me feel
> good, and sleepy.
Why is she givin' YOU all the good stuff???
Oh, hello, Nurse Diesel, Frank was just saying he thought your implants
had slipped.
What do you mean, WHAT IMPLANTS???
Hee, hee, hee, now she's gonna whack old Frank!
Frank said WHAT? He said your stockings were wrinkled but I told him you
don't wear stockings?
Can I have my sleepy shot now???
Thanksssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Robert Listenfer
>
>"Robert Listenfer" wrote
>
>> Sin. Sin. Sin. That's what it comes down to. Grafitti as
>> "Fine Art", supported by the Federal Government. Deviants portrayed
>> as "normal" on train layouts. Floosies and bar-girls glorified in a
>> red light district. Tobacco. Tobacco. Tobacco. Sin.
>> Whiskey. Whiskey. Whiskey. YOU explain it to YOUR children.
>>
>> Spam. Spam. Spam. Glorified as "Free Speech".
>> Cartoons where children make fun of their parents and their teachers.
>> Parents not able to be parents. Teachers not able to teach.
>> Children no longer able to play out their fantasies without a real
>> gun. Television glorifying Sin in the name of entertainment.
>>
>> Folks laugh when you mention Sin. They make fun of preachers.
>> Fathers depicted in commercials as stupid boobs. Dogs laughing at
>> their master's insurance bill. Everybody eating at Red Lobster.
>> Gasoline at $1.70 a gallon. Sin.
>>
>> Robert Listenfer
>
>You neglected to mention those god awful sinners---the Keno-playing
>Gamblers! :-)
You're just lucky I don't sic my dog on ya, ya know that ?
Robert Listenfer