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Re: LTC question
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Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:15:29 GMT
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My mission is indeed to become my own LTC, with all appropriate ruffles,
flourishes, and “official recognition”. What’s the point in engraving a
brick, (as our merchant-friend suggested I should sport) if it’s all a lie.
I mean, life-clock is a lie....and Last Day is a lie, after all, and I don’t
want any unflattering comparisons to Life-Clock and Last Day.
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My point was simply as good a builder as you are, there is really no valid
reason you could not call yourself a club--except perhaps for the definition of
a “club”.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/club
2. a group of persons organized for a social, literary, athletic, political, or
other purpose: They organized a computer club.
–verb (used without object) 18. to combine or join together, as for a common
purpose.
So it appears that there is no such thing as a club of one--unless of course one
is schizoprenic and has multiple personalities and could therefore perhaps could
slip under the requirement.
Then of course one would have to have multiple engraved bricks for each
personality, but of course could have the same John Neal designed logo. The very
fact that John agreed to help right off the bat gives you much credence as a
“Train Man”. To achieve “ultimate” recognition, you would perhaps need to
petition Mr.Steve Barille for inclusion. I am not sure whether recognizance by
Steve is an absolute necessity, but it would go a long way towards legitimacy in
the realm.Pehaps a write up in RailBricks would also insure legitimacy, but
since only in first issue, it might be just tentative. Probably an article in
the magazine that was accepted would also confer the desired legitimacy.
The problem with the multiple personality thing is that to have a meeting, all
of them, or at least two would have to be present at the same time for the
meeting. Not an easy thing to do, although on rare occasions I have been able to
accomplish that feat.
And of course I would do nothing consciously to perpetrate a lie, sufficient
documentation of legitimacy would be required by me before I would even think
about engraving a brick. But that of course does not prevent you from going to
another merchant that specializes in false documents.
Another course of action might be to actually join an existing club, and then
splinter off of it--and establish your own church, I mean club. History is ripe
with a plethora of those kinds of actions also.
smiley face,
Tommy Armstrong
PS
But then again in today’s post-modern society, definitions are many times simply
ignored and everything is relative--so one can create his own definition of
anything.
Good luck in your quest for Recoginition (and that thing you made for BrickCon
was truly incredible, btw)
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| (...) Thanks for the insightful reply Tommy. If I do get the recognition I so desperately crave, I will certainly go to you for all my KeithLUG / KeithLTC brick engraving needs. I'm already thinking of all the tag-lines to come out of that weekend (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Tim, Apology accepted, and maybe I should actually thank you for giving me the benifit of the doubt that my ego is NOT the size of Montana, and perhaps more like the size of say...Vatican City? Hmmm...I would consider the name-change, but (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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