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Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:36:49 GMT
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Jonathan Reynolds <scorch@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Running Joke? EuroTrash? Of course, As a responsible adult I would NEVER
> entertain the prolification of such a damaging line of • conversation...Hmmm...
>
> ...who was it who invented the steam engine and the railway system?....who • was
> it who made the fastest steam engine in the world (record in 1938 and yet • to
> be broken)?
As they no longer make steam engines as the industry standard, it is
unlikely to be broken.
> ...who was it who invented the tilting train?
I believe that the tilting train was considered a failure, or at least that
is what they said about it on the History channel the other night...
> ....who was it who
> built the first underground railway?....who was it who built the first
> pnuematic railway?...I could go on, but it's not in my character to incite
> riots!
I suppose by your reasoning that to say that since Americans built the first
TV, they don't build TVs that are trash. Sorry, but being first doesn't
always mean you can avoid the trash can. Isn't it in the British character
to start riots? It seems like there is one after every soccer game.
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> (all meant in the best taste & kind regards to our admirers over the pond)
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> Jon
Admirers? Yeah, we are a regular Mutual Adoration Society. Please, you are
still sore over the back to back losses to us in the American Revolution and
the war of 1812. If we didn't save your butts in WWI and WWII, you would
probably try to claim us back as a colony.
<g,d&r>
Mike Poindexter
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| (...) Wellllll....now, my handy dandy books show Mallard at 126 MPH and... In 1906 a steam powered car built by the Stanley brothers of Newtown, Massachusetts, and driven by Fred Marriott, set a new world land speed record of _127.66 mph_ at Ormond (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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| (...) Errr...what have I started here? I'll say this in my best US accent "chill out, man" (hope that sounds like the real thing). All meant in jest, maybe us Brits are not the ones with the 'stiff upper lip' after all! Jon (ps British humour is (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) thus (...) speaking, (...) wasn't (...) Running Joke? EuroTrash? Of course, As a responsible adult I would NEVER entertain the prolification of such a damaging line of conversation...Hmmm... ...who was it who invented the steam engine and the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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