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Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:18:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes:
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> Jonathan Reynolds <scorch@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:FsM7IH.An2@lugnet.com...
> > 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)?
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> As they no longer make steam engines as the industry standard, it is
> unlikely to be broken.
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> > ...who was it who invented the tilting train?
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> 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...
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> > ....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!
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> 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.
> >
> > (all meant in the best taste & kind regards to our admirers over the pond)
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> > Jon
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> 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.
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> <g,d&r>
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> Mike Poindexter
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 available on CD in all good stores)
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| (...) I agree. There's really no need to detail in depth the many ways the Brits have messed up the entire world in this group. :-) We can take that up in off-topic.debate or off-topic.fun (depending on your perspective (1) ) Seriously, when I say (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Jonathan Reynolds <scorch@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message news:FsM7IH.An2@lugnet.com... (...) conversation...Hmmm... (...) was (...) to (...) As they no longer make steam engines as the industry standard, it is unlikely to be broken. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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