Thomas or chuggington

[scotsoft]

Any more of this behavior George and I will have to report you to the boss 

I didn't realise Springsteen was a train fan    

Oh, very sharp are we 

[Caz]

I liked Thomas before is was cartoonised and even worse, I found some to download from 'tinternet and they were American versions - uuuuuuurrrrrrgh.   

[Bealman]

In all ernest, Springstrain is not a train fan. Oh, where is this going. I'm outta here. It's beddy time here in Aus anyway. 

[Sprintex]

 


Paul

[EtchedPixels]

And if mechanical genocide isn't enough, there's also the story of the old narrow gauge engine that was forgotten about for half a century and left buried in a shed. Don't read that one to the kids when grandma is around.

Based of course on reality..

Awdry is far from perfect.. engines are male , coaches female etc.. and lots of moralising. Awdry wasn't above scary certainly - the publishers made him add the story about Henry being let out of the tunnel !

[zwilnik]

And if mechanical genocide isn't enough, there's also the story of the old narrow gauge engine that was forgotten about for half a century and left buried in a shed. Don't read that one to the kids when grandma is around.

Based of course on reality..

Awdry is far from perfect.. engines are male , coaches female etc.. and lots of moralising. Awdry wasn't above scary certainly - the publishers made him add the story about Henry being let out of the tunnel !

I'd forgotten that one. An engine that has psychological issues about getting wet in the rain gets bricked up in a tunnel!

[ozzie Bill.]

"peep peep" said Ivor

[Agrippa]

Does anyone care........................

[MikeDunn]

Does anyone care........................

No more than over which bunch of over-paid idiots are prancing around a field kicking an exorbitant ball ...

[Bealman]

 

I kinda liked that Henry story... even have it in photobook story form and used to read it to me daughters when they were little. They are both very successful young women these days, so they suffered no harm.

Anyway Henry deserved it, I reckon. Arrogant loco. 

[David Asquith]

Thomas.  I think it's the best thing that Ringo Starr ever did!  Going off topic slightly but I'll accept the slap.  I heard that in an interview a journalist asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world.  Apparently the reply came back, and my money is on Lennon, was that he wasn't even the best drummer in the band!

Dave

[MikeDunn]

To continue with the  reference ...

Back in the mid/late 60s, I understand Lennon & McCartney went to see another band in London that was starting to have some success.  After the gig, they went back-stage & told the drummer (who has since been heralded as the "loudest drummer in rock") that "there's no way our guy could do half of that" ...

[Bealman]

Yeah, but Henry was in the tunnel at the time...

And Ringo arrived late for their one and only Aus tour...

[Jerry Howlett]

Neither to be fair...

I much prefer Ernest The Engine (he can be a little rude!)


http://youtu.be/d68MPO06CTc

Definitely NOT one for grandma !

[zwilnik]

I kinda liked that Henry story... even have it in photobook story form and used to read it to me daughters when they were little. They are both very successful young women these days, so they suffered no harm.

Anyway Henry deserved it, I reckon. Arrogant loco. 

I think they're all great stories It's just a shame that the modern versions have been sanitised so dramatically. Fortunately the originals still appear to be in print (I got mine as the box set of all the books).

on the    of Ringo. It's a good thing that none of the Beatles were particularly over technical instrumentalists (not to be confused with technically excellent instrumentalists). Having been involved with bands who had guitarists, keyboard players, bass players and drummers all competing to do the most technical solos and introduce ever more stupid chord progressions to the song writing process I think the Beatles wouldn't have been half as good at songwriting if they'd spent too long learning to play first.

If Paul McCartney hadn't become the bass player purely because no-one else wanted to do it, they might have just been Level 42