Churchill funeral train

Started by Agrippa, January 17, 2015, 10:34:01 AM

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steve836

KISS = Keep it simple stupid

acko22

The next train terminates here!
Mechanical issues can be solved with a hammer and electrical problems can be solved with a screw driver. Beyond that it's verbal abuse which makes trains work!!

Agrippa

At Gravesend, don't know if it has a station...
Nothing is certain but death and taxes -Benjamin Franklin

acko22

Not sure if it does either, but its all one way traffic!
Mechanical issues can be solved with a hammer and electrical problems can be solved with a screw driver. Beyond that it's verbal abuse which makes trains work!!

MalcolmInN

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Quote from: Agrippa on March 31, 2015, 11:48:46 PM
At Gravesend, don't know if it has a station...

:laughabovepost:

Quote from: acko22 on March 31, 2015, 11:53:06 PM
Not sure if it does either, but its all one way traffic!

:laughabovepost:
Quote from: acko22 on March 26, 2015, 06:27:10 PM
While way before my time my dad remembers his death and says there was a sense of loss even though my dad was a post war baby.
Hmmm, well I remember his death,
but I also remember him standing on the steps of Downing street in his funny trousers (knickerbockers?) and garters and morning suit so pleased with himself on his post war reincarnation,
and later feeling no sense of loss whatsoever, silly old bat !
(ASIDE : even though I only really became politically aware in the time of Eden, Suez (super)Mac and Profumo)

So I suppose that makes me old enough to be your Dad, or perish the thought, Grandad even !!


acko22


So I suppose that makes me old enough to be your Dad, or perish the thought, Grandad even !!
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Well going to be nice and not reply  :-X

What year was suez again? Well before my time  :laugh3:
Mechanical issues can be solved with a hammer and electrical problems can be solved with a screw driver. Beyond that it's verbal abuse which makes trains work!!

MalcolmInN

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Quote from: acko22 on April 01, 2015, 12:13:26 AM
What year was suez again? Well before my time  :laugh3:
:laugh:
I forget,
nurse, nurse,,,,
'56, thereabouts ?
(EDIT yep '56, a good thing about getting old in the age of the interweb, one does not need to remember, google and wiki can do it all for you one , sigh , , , /EDIT )

And another thing, one begins to feel old when people like Randy Mice Davies ("well he would say that, wouldn't he " ) dies  - - - :(


acko22

OK 56' the year my mother was born, so I think we can say Grandad!   :D

While I may be younger I am starting to get the feeling of old when young Pte soldiers turning up were in Primary school still when I went to Iraq and well I joined some 2 weeks over 12 years ago.

AS we say they were in the play ground while I was in the dead ground!
Mechanical issues can be solved with a hammer and electrical problems can be solved with a screw driver. Beyond that it's verbal abuse which makes trains work!!

MalcolmInN

Ok Granson, hehee !
Gosh, yes, puts it all in perspective ! So much history in such short time.
I am one of those who can consider themselves lucky that we did not have to go to war. (although the consequences of if we had had to would , , , well lets not go there, macabre tho the orig subjet was ! )

Mind you, if you want to debate the idiocy of the Churchillian years viz á viz those of our more recent commanders be my gues,,, hmmm, maybe in another forum some place ! ? !! ,,,

acko22

Quote from: MalcolmAL on April 01, 2015, 12:36:41 AM
Mind you, if you want to debate the idiocy of the Churchillian years viz á viz those of our more recent commanders be my gues,,, hmmm, maybe in another forum some place ! ? !! ,,,

I think time team may be better  :P

All I will say is at least Churchill appreciated letting the military do military things and not getting politics mixed in with military.
Mechanical issues can be solved with a hammer and electrical problems can be solved with a screw driver. Beyond that it's verbal abuse which makes trains work!!

MalcolmInN

Quote from: acko22 on April 01, 2015, 12:42:02 AM
I think time team may be better  :P
Oi! I'm not dead yet !

QuoteAll I will say is at least Churchill appreciated letting the military do military things and not getting politics mixed in with military.
Oh now you do provoke me, never was there such a political animal, just count how many times he crossed the floor of the house, not to mention his ancestry, his histories ( I mean his books), he was forever messing with his commanders, not to mention his machinations with the Americans,
sad is that he lost the plot with the power of the empire, notwithstanding it coming to an end  the rise of Gandhi etc anyway ( cue (super)Mac and the "winds of change".
Follow Churchill campaigns in the Boer ("envigorating to be shot at without effect") war etc and laters, , , a whole different aspect to his (?) fortunate victory over Germany.

/provoke !!!!


acko22

OK maybe time team a little pre-emptive!

I will rephrase the Messing with Military, he never tired to tell the men on the ground how to do their job! Maybe higher up, but that's what Generals are there for!
Mechanical issues can be solved with a hammer and electrical problems can be solved with a screw driver. Beyond that it's verbal abuse which makes trains work!!

MalcolmInN

Quote from: acko22 on April 01, 2015, 12:58:12 AM
OK maybe time team a little pre-emptive!
:)
no worries :) no fences taken hehee,
Quote
I will rephrase the Messing with Military, he never tired to tell the men on the ground how to do their job! Maybe higher up, but that's what Generals are there for!
Ah yes,  see what you mean, I agree totally, he let them carry on on the ground, then replaced them if/when necessary. Good point.

acko22

Well Malcolm I thik after our off topic comments it is time to get back on topic and expire that bit.

Derail it off the tracks of life (every pun intended  :P) and back to funeral trains
Mechanical issues can be solved with a hammer and electrical problems can be solved with a screw driver. Beyond that it's verbal abuse which makes trains work!!

MalcolmInN

Yes I think so, thanks for interesting discuss (dont worry, I think they are all in bed anyway lol!)
meanwhile I've been counting backwards, on my fingers, from '56 and yes it is poss. but I dont think they were as precocious in those days as they are today, but who knows :) :) ? ! no doubt there were exceptions :)
thanks and best wishes / g'night :)


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