Haversack said:Wild Root Wrote: (pardon the alitteration)
"Diesel locomotives? bring back steam!"
Well, several people are doing just that. Modern advances in materials science and systems analysis have convinced several engineers that steam locomotive design did not plataeu in the 1950s. Combine this with the increasing cost of petroleum and steam is beginning to look economically viable in some parts of the world. A Swiss company, DLM, is already building new designs of small steam locomotives for mountain rail lines. There is the South African "Red Devil" - a modernized Class 26 4-8-4 . And there is the 5AT streamliner project being worked on in the UK. Despite being modern, I think the 5AT would pass muster...
http://www.5at.co.uk/
Of course, we'll not likely see them here in the US anytime soon. But places like Australia with little oil but much coal might. (There is a design for a monster 2-14-2+2-14-2 Garratt kicking around down there)
For my own Do Withouts, it would have to be all the children spawned by the growth and spread of freeways: i.e. national chains of food, retail, and service which have not only physically blighted our towns and countryside but also our very perceptions of what food, merchandise, and service are. People who grow up knowing only Tang and oleomargarine think butter and fresh orange juice taste wrong.
Haversack
Marc Chevalier said:I could really, really, REALLY do without the grating, the execrable, the egregrious, the odious and the just plain mongoloid cry of WOOHOO!
Abusers should be taken out and have the tips of their offending tongues shot off with silver bullets, followed by the lighthearted hammering of wooden stakes through some very deserving gullets.
Or worse.
Poor Root...so innocent Those pictures are actually pretty mild compared to the 'muffin tops' I've seen ! Mostly it seems to be teenagers..I still don't get why they think they look attractive like that?[huh]Caledonia said:Yep, Wild Root, your first sighting is a bit of a shocker! lol
And I was there for one of those threads on line drying - I maintain my position.
mysterygal said:Poor Root...so innocent Those pictures are actually pretty mild compared to the 'muffin tops' I've seen ! Mostly it seems to be teenagers..I still don't get why they think they look attractive like that?[huh]
(A classic moment from U.S. naval history: as cannonballs bounced harmlessly off the hull of the U.S.S. Constitution, her captain exclaimed, "Huzzah! Her sides are made of iron!" Hence the ship's nickname: Old Ironsides.)Caledonia said:There's also Huzzah from the Old English, ...