Subj : Re: More Various Things To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Mon Jun 21 2021 12:42:00 Barry, BM> Sometimes one gets what one gets.... DS> WYSIWYG?? BM> Only if done full screen. :) DS> In this case, size DOES matter...not sure about resolution. :P BM> If it's too coarse it's not good! When the inventor of the girdle asked the woman trying it on, he asked her if it fit. She replied "Of corset does". BM> 'Obviously' a lot of other places getting and sending materials by BM> train. DS> And, some commodities can only go by rail. BM> Like hobos? If they go via highways and roads they're hitchhikers! The Railroad Police are on the lookout for these folks. In the 1987 movie "End Of The Line", there was a hobo there. In one of the opening scenes, he's laying on the track of a siding, and the brakeman sees him there...but there's a train rolling toward him. The hobo has a big bottle of whiskey with him, and he's swigging, drunk as a coot, unaware the train is approaching. The late Wilford Brimley was the brakeman (Will Haney), and the late Howard Morris was the hobo. Anyway, as the hobo got removed (just in time), the exchange went like this: Brakeman: You damn fool!! Hobo: What happened?? What happened?? Brakeman: You pretty near bought the farm, you drunken old S.O.B.!! Hobo: The hell I did (raucous laugher) Brakeman: You lay out around those railroad tracks, and you'll have no legs, by golly!! Hobo: Well, at least I would have a matched set!! (laughter) Later in the movie, on the way into St. Louis (it was actually in the yard in North Little Rock), the late Wilford Brimley and the late Levon Helm (Leo Pickett (he knocked cars)), were moving through the yard, and the exchange went like this: Brakeman: St. Louis is a place I always wanted to visit, Leo. Maybe I'll come back here one of these days. CarKnock: I'd like to bring Rose up here sometime, and show her that brewery. Brakeman: That'd be real nice. CarKnock: There's something on the track up ahead. Brakeman: Where?? CarKnock: Right There!! Shut 'Er Down!! Hold It!! Hold It!! They stop the locomotive, and come down the steps. Here's that same hobo on the rails. Brakeman: Hey!! Hobo: Old Crow in a bottle. Prince Albert in a can. Win 'Em Out!! Brakeman: I thought I told you once, not to lay out on these damn railroad tracks. Now, we pretty near cut you in half!! Hobo: Hey!! I know you!! You took my bottle!! Brakeman: Are you still trying to get to Chicago?? Hobo: Oh, yeah. Brakeman: Well sir, you're in luck!! We're gonna take you there!! Hobo: Are ya?? Brakeman: Yes sir!! Hobo: For once, my horoscope was correct!! They finally get to Chicago, but the Brakeman and the CarKnock sneak out beforehand. The big "welcome" was supposedly at the yard in Chicago, but it was at the former Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock. The band is playing music, and the president of Southland Railroad, Warren Gerber (played by Richard Balaban, I think), is secretly going to switch Southland Railroad to an air freight company. The brakeman and carknocker sneak off, and the hobo comes out of the engine, drunk as a coot, saying "Chicago!! I love this crazy place!!", and collapses -- that's the last we see of him. The Southland Railroad President's father-in-law, Thomas Clinton (played by Henderson Forsythe) didn't know what was going on, even though he was Chairman Of The Board. Well, when the brakeman and "carknocker" told him, he blew a gasket...saying "The day the airplane went into commercial business, I knew right then, that it was the disease that would kill the great railroads!!". But, the brakeman and the carknocker had a plan...they "kidnapped" Clinton (yet, he was going willingly with them)...and they bought the whole [thing] from him for one dollar. At the time the film was being made in central Arkansas and in Chicago, my workplace (silkscreen printing) printed most of the items (signs, decals, the big checks, etc.) used in the movie. So, I indirectly had a part in the movie...an "extra extra". DS> ... Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? BM> How else would we derive 'abbrv."? ABRV . BM> ... CELIBATE - What an Italian fishing lure salesman does. He just does it for the halibut, so he isn't floundering in debt. Daryl .... ESC?? I didn't know I was trapped. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (454:1/33) .