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The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge
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10-29-2010, 11:23 AM
tetters Wrote:I have a decoder install I've been putting off for a while... but I'm going to put off until a couple weeks after Nov. 1 Attaboy, tetters! That's the spirit!  Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!
10-29-2010, 06:08 PM
When I clicked on "View New Posts" and saw this thread, I thought, "Oh, Cool! I wonder what this is all about?"
After reading through it and discovering I had already posted on it a couple times, I vaguely remember thinking to myself, "Aw, there's plenty of time ... I'll think about it later." Yep! I think that's a good idea ... I'll think about it later. Is it nap time yet?
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln 
11-01-2010, 11:48 AM
Well so much for my idea for an entry. I was at the Timonium show over the weekend and I picked up the decoder I needed. With regard to this loco, I fail at procrastination.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information: http://www.readingeastpenn.com 
11-01-2010, 05:58 PM
MasonJar Wrote:ezdays Wrote:... this is a challenge of procrastinators...tetters Wrote:I'll continue to work on it until then. Can you say Popeye the Sailor Man *toot, toot*? "I'll gladly work on a project tomorrow for some sleep today!" lol
11-01-2010, 09:19 PM
I think it was the character Wimpy that always said, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
11-02-2010, 05:03 AM
Yeah that's it! lol
I had just mentioned Popeye as being the name of the show lol It was "I'll gladly pay you a dollar for a hamburger today."
11-02-2010, 07:49 AM
I'd gladly pay you a dollar for a hamburger today too - since other than rotgut Mickey D's that's less than they cost msot places. Back when those cartoons where made, a burger cost a nickle. The first version is right - it's "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"
Hey wait, today IS Tuesday....drat!  --Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information: http://www.readingeastpenn.com
11-02-2010, 05:23 PM
Thanks, Randy ... I thought I was right.
My Mom used to refer to "Wimpy" and that phrase ... she was referring to reading the Popeye cartoon strip on the "Comics" page of the newspaper ... long before the cartoons we watched as kids or that now play on the Cartoon Network. (She was a big Dick Tracy fan!)
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln 
11-02-2010, 08:38 PM
Because of the character J. Wellington Wimpy, the Wellington aircraft in WW2 were ncknamed Wimpys.
There was also a restaurant chain in England called Wimpy (usually as "the Wimpy Bar").
David
Moderato ma non troppo Perth & Exeter Railway Company Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task. Most modellers can get two of them to work. 
11-03-2010, 09:30 AM
Like true procrastinators, the subject of this thread has been completely thrown off topic in an effort to distract everyone from the contest goals. We've gone to talking about getting projects completed that we have all put off, to talking about Popeye The Sailor Man, to WWII aircraft and a restaurant chain about a supporting character from said cartoon!
I salute you all with a rubber mallet to da head! 
11-03-2010, 10:08 AM
tetters Wrote:Like true procrastinators, the subject of this thread has been completely thrown off topic in an effort to distract everyone from the contest goals. We've gone to talking about getting projects completed that we have all put off, to talking about Popeye The Sailor Man, to WWII aircraft and a restaurant chain about a supporting character from said cartoon!It may seem as much, but you have to remember, distraction is a procrastinators best friend.  With that in mind, it would appear that those discussions are indeed "on topic"...  What we need here is a wake-up call: HEY, GET BUSY PEOPLE, THE CHALLENGE IS NOW IN PROCESS How's that?????
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
11-03-2010, 10:32 AM
Sorry Don... what was that? I wasn't listening. I'm currently distracted by some bright shiny object located a way off in the distance... :?
11-03-2010, 02:30 PM
tetters Wrote:Sorry Don... what was that? I wasn't listening. I'm currently distracted by some bright shiny object located a way off in the distance... :?Were those the same ones that I saw being investigated on one of those paranormal, "fact or fiction?" shows? I think they definitely proved that what you saw was just a kid's mylar balloon that got away. Ya gotta stop walking around with your head up in the sky, you can see how it affects your hearing. :o Beside, it takes your attention away from that project you started to working on again a few days ago. Uh, you did start a project for this challenge, didn't you... 
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
11-03-2010, 05:58 PM
ezdays Wrote:Beside, it takes your attention away from that project you started to working on again a few days ago. Uh, you did start a project for this challenge, didn't you... Huh? Wha? What challenge? 
12-31-2010, 02:52 PM
Hmm, does the challenge close midnight tonight, or midnight tomorrow?
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