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Tramp
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Postby Tramp » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:08 pm

Better than gear grease.

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Postby amalie » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:30 pm

San, that wouldn't be ol' Ralph Steadman, illustrator of our belated H.S. Thompson, would it? Yowza,looks like they found Neil's stash again.

B&O Mountain - that card was part of a 15-piece set done for the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse - it's a double length card, one of four in that set. At the time of the release, it and the Pacific were the two newest engines on the B&O property. I'm a little partial myself to the T-classes Mountains they picked up from ...guess who, the B&M... in the late 40s.

Lots of postcards of Crawford Notch, I've got a least a dozen different views here. The Mountaineer card is tough; I bought a fairly large collection to get that and one other card. The one I don't have but want is a view of a large, smoke-belching B&M articulated passing through the gap. Oh, well, one of these days one will turn up.

Anyway, San, you might want to chase that stuff with something milder...like a little Yukon Jack. That Daisy can make a mean bear head stew...
Flirtin' with disaster...

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Postby Tramp » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:57 pm

Amalie, I might need color Xeroxes of those Crawford Notch cards. Tell me how and how much.

Has anyone made that B&O Mountain in O?

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Postby 2railjon » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:32 am

/22/99
The Charleston Gazette



Culminating 3-year undercover "Operation SOUP" (Special Operation to Uncover Poaching), federal marshals seized 203 bear gall bladders and 110 frozen bear paws and arrested 25 people in a sweep through Virginia and West Virginia. The gall bladders are valued at $15K in the U.S. and at over $3 million outside the U.S. The bear paws are used to make bear paw soup--where one bowl of this delicacy will sell for hundreds of dollars. I actually have a recipe from a cookbook my mother brought me from China nearly 20 years ago. The key is removing the bear's "rammish smell."

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Postby amalie » Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:36 am

Well, it's gotta sound pretty good in the prison yard...

"Hey, watchya in for?..."
"Bear poaching..."

So, Daisy, just serving us 'bos that ol' fat head and none of them good claws an' bladders; what's up with that?...
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Jackie Blue

Postby Jackie Blue » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:31 am

It's probably worlds better than Tramp's charred chicken with feathers! I cringe just thinking about that.

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Postby Tramp » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:33 am

Jackie, you were the one who refused to pluck the bird.

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Postby Daisy » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:49 am

Good morning! So, scrambled bear brains and biscuits all round then? Amalie, side of paw?

Tramp, I'm giving you the tail. No no - no need for thanks. You know you deserve it.

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Postby amalie » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:54 am

Hold 'dem brains - but I'm always open to biscuits and a side 'o paw. Hmm, what is that rammish smell...
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Postby 2railjon » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:09 pm

The code name of my project is: Operation Phoenix.
Something was found in a backroom on a dusty shelf. Long forgotten. Wounded. Waiting. It called to me. It's going to feed that unstoppable hunger in my heart. And I have sparked its resurrection. :D

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Tramp
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Postby Tramp » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:29 pm

Instead of a rabbit's foot I'll have a bear's tail. Thanks.

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Postby amalie » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:08 pm

Drop me an email Tramp. I found one spare Crawford card in my stock and an extra copy of the Mountain card from 1927. I will scan the cards I have in my collection, but I'm covering drag races in Florida next week so it will have to wait until I get back...
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San Diegan

Postby San Diegan » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:57 pm

Image

That's hrj (=highrailjon) in the chopper.

In the 2005 remake of the story, after a horrifying locomotive accident in the Gobi desert, hrj reconstructs a diecast 1/5 scale Niagara from the wreckage, manufactures his own track, and transports a convent of nuns, orphans, and several sexually ambiguous members of the British parlament to safety. The film is a study in tension as hrj reels from one Idaho Gold (TM) induced hangover to another during the reconstruction, lusts after Sister Superior, and dodges the overtures of the MPs while keeping the orphans fed on bear meat.

San

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Postby amalie » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:05 pm

See, San, I told you that Yukon Jack would work wonders on your mental disposition. Of course, Idaho Gold may also work...
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Postby 2railjon » Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:07 pm

LOL, San!!! You're on to it!!! :lol:


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