Din Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 On 24/01/2020 at 06:51, Edwardian said: Pop a cap in yo ass more likely if I were to wear one of those! Been Spending Most their lives, Living in an Edwardian Paradise.... ======= Excellent modelling and inspirational stuff to read through here. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 In the Caribbean I used to crew for a skipper called Bill Bailey! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, Din said: Been Spending Most their lives, Living in an Edwardian Paradise.... ======= Excellent modelling and inspirational stuff to read through here. Thank you, welcome, and, above all, well done to have read through even a fraction of this topic! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Din Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 7 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Thank you, welcome, and, above all, well done to have read through even a fraction of this topic! I'm clicking random pages every so often and plan my own version of your Nellie 2-4-0, with a scramble around my back room for the parts likely imminent! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2020 6 hours ago, Edwardian said: The layout is off limits while it is this cold. The last time I ventured into the shed was to retrieve my old Nellie (Simon, FYI that's not a euphemism). Despite two winters in the cold and damp, there is only minor damage to the village as a result. The paper slates have lifted on one building and a couple of patches of cobbles have bubbled, but I think the cobbled area is too extensive anyway. I decide to concentrate on CA's locos, but have found myself a Nellie instead (also not a euphemism). If I can get somewhere with locos and rolling stock in time, Spring should see a further assault upon the buildings needed to complete the village. Sounds like a right couple of Nellies to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 8 hours ago, Hroth said: Thats the closest, nicknamed in reference to the song. One assumes they were a temperamental class of loco... They were Webb compounds. Of course they were temperamental! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 9 hours ago, Regularity said: But hopefully not this one, who unexpectedly turned up on a search (if you have under 18s about, please be careful)? The second one got my attention being a mere stripling of 73, and it reminded me that Americans have no sense of irony at times. In Australia, as in other parts of the world where English is spoken, "randy" is a description of someone of priapic disposition. But a para in the attached article quotes a talent agent named Randy Quintata. Someone, who is an agent in the porn industry, is called Randy Quintata? - is that a name or a job description. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: The second one got my attention being a mere stripling of 73, and it reminded me that Americans have no sense of irony at times. In Australia, as in other parts of the world where English is spoken, "randy" is a description of someone of priapic disposition. I'll have to tread very very carefully here - many years ago, a dear friend of mine from the USA mentioned her college friend Randy, whose surname was the same as an esteemed locomotive engineer (LYR/LMS/BR) and author of such tomes as 'Locomotive Panorama' & 'British Railways Standard steam locomotives ', and then couldn't comprehend why I and another British friend of hers were convulsed in laughter on the floor. Edited January 30, 2020 by CKPR 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 9 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: In Australia, as in other parts of the world where English is spoken, "randy" is a description of someone of priapic disposition. I believe that it also used to be used to describe a drunken spree (going on a randy) and is also "archaic Scots" for having a "rude, aggressive manner", which could be where the meaning of a drunken spree originates from. How we get from there to feeling "lusty" is another matter... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 18 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Fair enough. I wasn't aiming so much for ethnographical as geographical accuracy, for the area in which I grew up. Old King Cole ruled from his seat at Coleshill. By analogy with the later Danelaw, the region over which he held his merry sway is known as the Coleslaw. I'd say growing up around Coleshill is more to blame for you being crowned incontestably King of all things Midland here on rmWeb. I'm putting in a plea for a Timeline in the CA thread, having half listened to Melvyn Bragg's "in our Time" this morning while starting 'work' for the day. It was about Alcuin of York (730 - 800 ?) a Northumbrian who apparently introduced punning as a way of embedding learning in students' heads to Charlemagne's court. Last week, thanks to Melvyn Bragg, I was able to recollect 1870 ,The Franco Prussian War, the Siege of Paris and The Commune etc. Briefly. Having lived in Northumbria since the mid 1970s and at York (Kings Manor) until retirement, I really can't unravel clearly the centuries (or boundaries) from the sixth to late sixteenth Early Railways: Oswald, Aidan, Cuthbert, Bede, Hilda, Whitby, Grosemont, Prince Bishops ... dh 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted January 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 minute ago, runs as required said: having half listened to Melvyn Bragg's "in our Time" this morning while starting 'work' for the day. I changed my working hours from 9-5 to 10-6. This is partly to avoid traffic, thus saving an average of 30 minutes per day, but mostly so that I can listen to such programmes. Today's was a classic. Who knew that so much of Western Culture and Civilisation hung on Alcuin's work in saving the Northumbrian library? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Din Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 On 13/01/2020 at 22:17, Edwardian said: Ah, too late ... Where'd you get your wheelset from for the 2-4-0? Or rather, what size are they? Off to Stafford show this weekend hopefully so might try and pick them up if I can... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 14 hours ago, Hroth said: I believe that it also used to be used to describe a drunken spree (going on a randy) and is also "archaic Scots" for having a "rude, aggressive manner", which could be where the meaning of a drunken spree originates from. How we get from there to feeling "lusty" is another matter... Well I can't speak for others but I have often found alcohol to be quite arousing, in effect it puts the arousing into carousing , and just by-the-by is that an example of something that Alcuin of York would approve? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Din said: Where'd you get your wheelset from for the 2-4-0? Or rather, what size are they? Off to Stafford show this weekend hopefully so might try and pick them up if I can... The coupled wheels are the original. The leading wheels I found lying around, but, as I plan to try this conversion again, I'd use Alan Gibson 3'6" bogie/tender wheels, cat. no. 4842. 4 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: Well I can't speak for others but I have often found alcohol to be quite arousing, in effect it puts the arousing into carousing , and just by-the-by is that an example of something that Alcuin of York would approve? I will ask Andy Y to introduce a "Too Much Information" button. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RedGemAlchemist Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 21 hours ago, runs as required said: It was about Alcuin of York (730 - 800 ?) a Northumbrian who apparently introduced punning as a way of embedding learning in students' heads to Charlemagne's court. I have no issues with this, so long as they're good puns. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 I heard bits of the Alcuin programme, disrupted by irritating distractions like work, but it sounded fascinating, so i shall listen to it in full over the weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Ditto. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 2 hours ago, RedGemAlchemist said: I have no issues with this, so long as they're good puns. I'm sure I've said this before, but you remind me of the fellow so intent upon winning a newspaper punning competition that he submitted no fewer than 10 entries, convinced that one of them was bound to win. But, no pun in ten did. 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted January 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2020 3 hours ago, RedGemAlchemist said: I have no issues with this, so long as they're good puns. 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: I'm sure I've said this before, but you remind me of the fellow so intent upon winning a newspaper punning competition that he submitted no fewer than 10 entries, convinced that one of them was bound to win. But, no pun in ten did. Unfortunately - and just our host's excruciating example - Alcuin's puns don't translate well from Latin to English, and even in Latin weren't very good! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 43 minutes ago, Regularity said: Unfortunately - and just our host's excruciating example - Alcuin's puns don't translate well from Latin to English, and even in Latin weren't very good! Citizens: Iura meliora poscimus! 'We demand better laws!' Politician: Vobis igitur erunt iura in poculis. 'Then you shall have the soups in bowls.' 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbcompound Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 31 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Citizens: Iura meliora poscimus! 'We demand better laws!' Politician: Vobis igitur erunt iura in poculis. 'Then you shall have the soups in bowls.' Eheu! (Scoolmasters fall about larfing) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 30 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Citizens: Iura meliora poscimus! 'We demand better laws!' Politician: Vobis igitur erunt iura in poculis. 'Then you shall have the soups in bowls.' His puns probably work in Medieval Church Latin spoken with a Northern intonation... I've got the podcast, I'll listen to it this evening! (With a mug of proper tea and some digestive biscuits) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 The English language does seem peculiarly reliant on subtle differences of spelling and punctuation to convey meaning. I saw this notice above the the urinals in a gents loo in a Norfolk pub: "We aim to please. You aim too, please." 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 18 hours ago, wagonman said: "We aim to please. You aim too, please." That was frequently inscribed above those old style railway lavatory pans where you looked down through vertiginously to the track below. And back in the compartment the heating control lever might also be doctored to read EAT < > tOFFee ONions dh 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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