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Re: LTC question
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Date: 
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:04:25 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tommy Armstrong wrote:
  
  
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.

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)

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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