We need a GERN thread

[cnw1961]

I’d like to ask the CEO of GERN Industries to start a new thread here on the Big Blue. I have an announcement to make and I need a # for a covered hopper.

[MountainMan]

I never got around to asking before, but what is the deal with GERN?

[cnw1961]

GERN is a fictous industry and it is fun. You find all that is to know about it here in this post by Wayne: <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=280#p2821">viewtopic.php?f=17&t=280#p2821</a><!-- l -->

[BR60103]

GERN manufactures flux in industrial, medicinal and domestic grades. It makes everything run 3% better.

[MountainMan]

GERN manufactures flux in industrial, medicinal and domestic grades. It makes everything run 3% better.

As in "Got Flux?" :? And what's with the carload of giant potatoes? Let me guess...raw materials for "flux"...

[doctorwayne]

As in "Got Flux?" :? And what's with the carload of giant potatoes? Let me guess...raw materials for "flux"...

Or even possibly as in "Get Fluxed!" And, if I'm not mistaken, those aren't potatoes, they're haggis (haggi?).
If you want to learn a little more about GERN, here's a LINK to a thread in the Industries Forum.

Wayne

[BR60103]

That is the Perth plant of the worldwide GERN Industries. Yes, the green wagon contains the workers' lunch -- haggis from the Wat & Son Haggis Mines. The other wagon contains coal fro the plant - large smooth Welsh cobbles - while the middle one contains bags of flux but they can't be seen.

(I have a collection of historic GERN ads in the files, but they're too large to upload.)

[sgtcarl1]

Haggis????
Isn't that something the Scots eat?? I didn't know it was from mines!! It must have a "mine" of it's own!

[MountainMan]

That is the Perth plant of the worldwide GERN Industries. Yes, the green wagon contains the workers' lunch -- haggis from the Wat & Son Haggis Mines. The other wagon contains coal fro the plant - large smooth Welsh cobbles - while the middle one contains bags of flux but they can't be seen.

(I have a collection of historic GERN ads in the files, but they're too large to upload.)

Looks like a carload of black olives...haggis, BTW, begins with sheep stomachs. Funny stuff to be "mining".

Let me guess - all of your GERN ads are 3% larger than the upload limits? 8-)

[BR60103]

Well, there are places where they tell you that haggis is porridge (oatmeal), flavoured with those bits of a sheep that even the English won't eat, and boiled in the sheep's stomach.
But that's just a story for the tourists so that they won't eat all of this delicacy before we get to it.
(The haggis are the the brown lumps in the green car. The black lumps in the grey car are coal.)

[fsm1000]

David, there is something the english WON'T eat? Um ok
I thought they only had two foods types anyhow there in Englang. Boiled and burnt

[lightbender]

Most Sassenachs know that the 'Haggis and Bagpipes' that the Scots lovingly refer to as food and music are in fact weapons of mass destruction. For over 2 thousand years England has been bombarded with these evil manifestations of highland cunning and consequently diligent patriotic Englishmen have been burying them deep in the bowels of the earth as there was no known technology to defuse them.

Who would have thought that GERN would provide the magic catalyst not only are they able to defuse haggis but there is now a growing demand for the stable product. Pity there is no cure for bagpipes yet.

Tony

[BR60103]

Pity there is no cure for bagpipes yet.

Tony

Ah, but it has already been demonstrated that bagpipes cured with GERN Flux sound 3% sweeter.

[Catt]

I think we should have a GERN forum :mrgreen:

[fsm1000]

Tony hey there. I LIKE bagpipes