Whatzit?

[webenda]

Door bell? You mean like inside here?

I notice you haven't played with your trains or scenes in a while.
Is that what you have been doing? Reducing the deer population visiting your yard by making Deer Butt Doorbells out of them?
Where do you take them to sell them, York?

No, not what I had in mind. This is what I had in mind.

[healey36]

Ok...



The Hall top-post semaphore, introduced by the Hall Signal Company in 1909. First semaphore to feature the mechanism at the top of the post. Previously the mechanism was located at the base of the pole, controlling the semaphore via a number of rods. Quite the technological improvement, from what I understand.

The bracket and lamp necessary for illumination is not shown in the picture. It's interesting to note that semaphores, as best I understand, were always designed such that in the event of failure, the arm would drop by force of gravity into the "Stop" position.

Did a lot of reading on semaphores after seeing this. Upper quadrant, lower quadrant, two-position, three-position, mechanical, electro-mechanical, dwarf, etc. Makes me appreciate the ol' Lionel no. 151 a bit better...

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Door bell? You mean like inside here?

I notice you haven't played with your trains or scenes in a while.
Is that what you have been doing? ...

A great deal of the playfulness has been knocked out of me. I'm in the process of trying to discover and understand what remains.

I'm learning what is left of me. I figure, I am about half-empty.

Those things, the trains, and all the stuff that goes with them, doesn't seem to interest me much any more. Having always been a gregarious soul, I have reminded myself that most laughter and happiness for people comes from other people (not that we don't all enjoy seeing such things as a cat riding by on a Rumba !!! ) so I have been easing myself back into local family and friends, and re-finding joy, here and there, now and then.
daMurph

[healey36]

I totally get that, Murph. A personal catastrophe has a way of resetting priorities, points of interest. Suddenly all the "stuff" just doesn't seem so important. Still, you gotta find some joy somewhere. Peace brother...hopefully it's right around the corner.

Healey

[rogruth]

Well said, Murph.

[Roy]

Murph, I'm sure that, if you had gone first, you would've wanted your wife to have lived the rest of her life to the fullest. I have to figure she'd want the same, for you.

As for trains, we've all been sold a bill of goods. No one can play with a masterpiece. Ask anyone who's lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright home. But, I suspect you'll find that there's more of importance yet to be done.

[webenda]

Thank you Healey, that was a good one. I didn't even get close.

[webenda]

A great deal of the playfulness has been knocked out of me. I'm in the process of trying to discover and understand what remains.

daMurph

You remain Murph. Hang in there, you will find your whole self is still there. It takes a different amount of time for each of us. I have gone through many phases in the six years since my wife died. The hardest part was two years of depression. That too passed and I am still changing.

[rogruth]

Listen to Wayne, Murph.
He and some others have been there.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Healey, Roy, Wayne, and Roger, Thank You.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ok. Here's some playfulness from me for ya. I need your help with this.
Judging from the amazing photoshopping examples seen on this forum and so wonderfully exposed for their phoniness (often at my dumb### expense ) I have to inquire of you guys who have a sharper eye than I at such visuals.

A lunatic classmate from high school must have gotten me on his mind, since we have a 50+ year reunion coming up, and made me aware of these phenomena, as he put it and demonstrated so graphically .

Now, understand, I have no criticism of the alleged bearers of these backsides. However, how could they possibly be real ?! These backsides look more like shelving than seats. Also, hasn't the emphasis on physical health turned more toward downsizing, rather than upsizing?!!!

These just can't be real, I say. These must be the result of expert ( ?) photoshopping , and he's just trying to see if I am still as gullible as he may have thought I was back in high school (?)

[Mitch]

Hey, that one in the middle might be Kim Kardashian! Just kiddin. Murph, I'll say that they're real, cause I've seen plenty of women locally who look like that. I was amazed at one, who was standing behind a high desk, and she looked perfectly normal from the top of her head to her waist. But then she stepped out from behind the desk and Lord have Mercy! Her bottom half musta weighed 250 on its own. One of "them quirks of nature", I'd guess.

[MYmoo]

Ok. Here's some playfulness from me for ya. I need your help with this.
Judging from the amazing photoshopping examples seen on this forum and so wonderfully exposed for their phoniness (often at my dumb### expense ) I have to inquire of you guys who have a sharper eye than I at such visuals.

A lunatic classmate from high school must have gotten me on his mind, since we have a 50+ year reunion coming up, and made me aware of these phenomena, as he put it and demonstrated so graphically .

Now, understand, I have no criticism of the alleged bearers of these backsides. However, how could they possibly be real ?!
These backsides look more like shelving than seats. Also, hasn't the emphasis on physical health turned more toward downsizing, rather than upsizing?!!!

These just can't be real, I say. These must be the result of expert ( ?) photoshopping , and he's just trying to see if I am still as gullible as he may have thought I was back in high school (?)

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Definately NOT a result of 'photoshopping'.

Your friend was/is not 'joshing' you.

Make one or two trips on 'public transportation' (any type, land, sea, air),
and verify for yourself that these individuals DO EXIST
outside of the 'virtual world/internet',
LIVE, and 'In Living Colo(u)r'.

- EOT

[MurphOnMillerAve]

MYmoo, So, you're saying they are not the result of being exaggerated via photoshopping ?

[MYmoo]

MYmoo, So, you're saying they are not the result of being exaggerated via photoshopping ?

Yes.

Shorten the trip & and go to your nearest 'big-box' store,
if you don't feel safe riding with
' the common people'.

Thank You, Mitch, for affirming that I am not alone in what I've observed.