Had to wait for this big iron to cross the road last week. Very slowly. Which I found reassuring.
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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
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Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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- View From The Porch
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
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- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
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- I Work On A Starship
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- Not Today, Either
- No Hamvention Friday
- Dayton Hamvention, I Dunno
- "The Name Is Moore...Gordon Moore."
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- FWIW, It's Facebook
- Mirror
- As Heard
- Busy, Busy In The Basement
- A Face In The Crowd
- Back To Days
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"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
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"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
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--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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5 comments:
I dunno if you're a fan of Ogden Nash, but he once did a poem about the old-style crossing sign. I don't remember the whole thing, but it included:
Cross
CHILDREN
Walk
Cheerful
CHILDREN
Ride
Positively electrifying!
I saw a pair of those transformers atop a railroad flatcar, all chained down and liberally festooned with stickers saying "DO NOT HUMP".
My first reaction was "Well, I should say not! At least buy it dinner first!" but I knew I was missing the point.
Turns out "humping" is giving freight cars in railyards a shove with a donkey engine and letting them smack into the next car in line.
Years ago, at the railroad siding that's near Purdue University, two tank cars sat for a long time, with a boxcar linked after them. One tank car was stenciled, "Do Not Hump." The other was marked, "ABSOLUTELY Do Not Hump." After a month or so, some wag neatly graffitied the boxcar, "DON"T EVEN THINK ABOUT HUMPING!"
Oh, engineering humor.
What surprises me is the decided *lack* of flex in that low-boy. I'd think that big ol' transformer would have the middle sagged nigh down to the ground...
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