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  1. I wish I had taken the "blue" pill instead!

    1. gridwatcher

      gridwatcher

      would have stopped you rolling over in bed and falling out if nothing else?

    2. pheaton

      pheaton

      dont worry you can get it without prescription now ;)

  2. parallelogram

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    2. BernardTPM
    3. steve22

      steve22

      Makes me think of Geometry lessons from fifty years ago and associated nerves whenever it was double-maths.

    4. BoD

      BoD

      Hexa-hexaflexagon

  3. I am thoroughly impressed by the CakeBox entries.

  4. ..you can hardly please many RMweb-ers hardly any of the time..

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Yup, I've given up trying to be helpful or get some easy answers to some questions and just laid down and rested!

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      I'm easily pleased...

    4. SHMD

      SHMD

      As a championship level procrastinator, (not yet international standard due to my other specialist subject being apathy), I like thread drift. I takes me to places I would otherwise not go!

       

  5. ..Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first start to interlock signalling!

    1. peach james
    2. St. Simon

      St. Simon

      You try the current interlocking principles, that's madness!

  6. ..is quite happy with the commute home tonight from Manchester Piccadilly to Stalybridge, (usually 14 minutes long), but due to a "brokendown" train outside Piccadilly we were diverted via Oxford Rd, Manchester Victoria and Ashton-U-Lyne. :)

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      Hi Flapland - I might have been on the same train as, in the end, I tried to 'get' as many Deltics as I could on the route.

       

      ..happy days.

    3. flapland

      flapland

      I only did one although got to see a fair few through Victoria. Happy days indeed.

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      I did several Deltics between Liverpool and Leeds

  7. ..is quite happy with the commute home tonight from Manchester Piccadilly to Stalybridge, usually 14 minutes long. But due to a "brokendown" train outside Piccadilly we wer divewrted via Oxford Rd, Manchester Victoria and Ashton-U-Lyne.

  8. To me to you. to you, to you...RIP

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    2. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      The next best double act to Laurel & Hardy in my opinion...

       

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      Well after my time, but my son loved them ...

    4. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      TBH I think their best stuff was too good to be hidden away on children's channels.

  9. I am RMwebber SHMD!

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    2. The Black Hat
    3. bgman

      bgman

      I am hungry, bacon butty calls !

    4. sharris

      sharris

      Iambic pentameter

  10. If you took the worst bits of Google and mixed it with the worst bits of Bing, would it be called Bungle?

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    2. cromptonnut

      cromptonnut

      What about Youtube, Twitter and Facebook joining forces and ending up with YoutTwitFace?

    3. itsthegman

      itsthegman

      Boggle or in the case of your sensitive data going !.

    4. rembrow

      rembrow

      Could be 'Boogie' only works at nights.

  11. This afternoon I have just endured 73 hours (ish) in the Cinema being forced to watch Mama Mia 2. Whilst my wife (wisely) fell asleep I couldn’t help thinking that the 3 or 4 modelling projects (I have on the go) could have benefited enormously instead.

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    2. steviesparx

      steviesparx

      '...wishing I was somewhere else instead...'

    3. irishmail

      irishmail

      knowing me, knowing you.

    4. SHMD

      SHMD

      I don't wanna talk

       

      About things we've gone through

       

      Though it's hurting me

       

      Now it's history

       

  12. Right, its pi44ed it down for a couple of days - and the "Saddleworth" moor (sic) fire is out today including the underneath peat - so now they announce a hosepipe ban!

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      Brass band night is brill!

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      (Whit Friday)

    4. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      We last had rain in May.

  13. School's out again "smoke day"!

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      *sings*

      Smoke gets in your eyes....

    3. peanuts

      peanuts

      least its a bit better today seems the use of the helicopters have been curtailed not seen or heard any so far today

       

    4. Chris116

      Chris116

      Cheltenham has been out all week and will be at the weekend as well. It is hauling the fully booked "Gin Train" tonight while I am guard on the RAT hauled by 45379. The Real Ale Train is also fully booked.

  14. ..has woken up in Bristol this morning and is watching my home town - Stalybridge - on the main news! Just had a text that my son's school is closed due to smoke so my wife will have to stay at home today. But a big thankyou to all the firefighters on those hot steep slopes.

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      ..besides, we are exporting most of it to Yorkshire!

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      You're a connoisseur of polluted air quality now?

    4. SHMD

      SHMD

      I prefer to compare Stalybridge's "Burning Moor" aroma to the "Fruity yet Tart" air of Singapore when the Indonesians are in full slash-and-burn mode.

  15. ...there's only one Signalbox left on my commute into work now - Baguley Fold Jn.

  16. ..this morning I woke-up in the south of France..

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Does anyone want to look inside your head?

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      I suspect not, to any of the above, but I did spend the day inside a big aircraft factory and will for the next week or two.

       

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      At least they didn't send you to the badlands of North Wales!

  17. Noname Rail regrets to inform that every other train is delayed due to awaiting a member of train crew. Please listen for further announcements.

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    2. DCB

      DCB

      When will the TOCs and Network rail bite the bullet and go DCC? That way they won't need any crew. Oops, I hope no Tory MPs are reading this.

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      DavidC - We are still waiting for most of the lines to go AC first!

    4. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      If any other "business" was run this badly, they'd have closed by now....

  18. ...is watching "Fortnite" updating this evening...

  19. Crisps, which to buy - Wasabi or Kimchi flavour?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Kimchi. Wasabi only works with peas and seaweed.

    2. big jim

      big jim

      Stop being all fancy, Salt and vinegar all the way

    3. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Smoky bacon= breakfast crisps.

  20. ...isn't it about time this thread was locked! Hand cuffed and wrapped in cling-film?

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    2. AndrewC

      AndrewC

      Obviously the one about kinky trainspotters. :-)

    3. Londontram

      Londontram

      There's a thread for kinky transporters? How come I've missed that all this time doh

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      You've obviously been frequenting quite the wrong sort of website. Perhaps you ought to share the link here....

  21. ...has a ticket to ride today on train No. G142 from Shanghai to Beijing. That's 1318km and 6hours to look forward to.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Sounds like a Ryanair service.

    3. jjb1970

      jjb1970

      I must admit that when I go to China I ask myself the question of which is the less developed part of the world nowadays. They have some remarkable major infrastructure.

    4. adb968008

      adb968008

      Been asking myself that question for 2 decades.

  22. I woke up in ShangHai this morning.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      ....and is bringing the Minority Report to life.

    3. adb968008
    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      Better than one night in Bangkok...

  23. I see the vultures are a circling overhead here in down town Seattle. Three helicopters are stationary, up above, 4 or 5 blocks east of here.

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      OK, they've got bored and bu@@ered off.

    2. DonB

      DonB

      Vultures or Choppers?

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      One police chopper and, I presume, two paparazzi choppers.

  24. The Polanyi paradox. There's hope for us after all. (I, for one, can't put into words what I am doing most of the time anyway!)

  25. ...has woke up in Seattle this morning and a lovely city it is too.

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      Today has been a glorious sunny warm day.

      It's just a shame I've cooped up in a Lab in the basement all day.

       

      I will try the seafood as it does look good.

       

      Isn't the Mt. Rainier something else?

       

    3. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Ah, yes, the August Flowerpot Festival, no wait, that's Settle as well.....

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