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Re: LTC question
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:04:25 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tommy Armstrong wrote:
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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 like “You control the action”! Would that be two bricks or one?
An engraved brick for each one of my personalities is intruiging....I could
change the color according to the mood of each personality too. The
possibilities are endless.
If I don’t get that official recognition I so desperately crave from my train
building peers, you’ve convinced me to fabricate it myself with official
boilerplate like engraved bricks and T-shirts. I think your most valuable
advice was the whole....(now, I realize I’m paraphrazing here)...penetrate and
explode idea. I could infiltrate the nearest train-club with my 24
swag-addicted cronies and splinter off of it. I’ll just have to remember
Spock’s sage wisdom in the episode: The Immunity Syndrome “The area of
penetration is bound to be sensitive”.
Thanks for the compliment about the train-dio as well.
-Keith
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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". (URL) group of persons organized for a social, literary, athletic, political, (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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