how about a rail stop as they say in russia?? damned clever those ruskies or an engine call as they say in chez? or choo choo stop as they say in my grandsons kindergarten?
The Police, and Fire Service, have Stations, but, no rolling stock, so, the Trains are a distraction, or, am I overthinking this one?
of course they have rolling stock - never seen a police car or fire engine??? you are staying up too late these days spittie and it’s doin ya head in and has anyone mentioned ambulance stations or army,navy and airforce stations ???
it’s the station that remains stationary see and everything else keeps movin
See Gummy, back in the day, in the office, we had a Stationary Cupboard, which, periodically, I moved to a different location, so much for that theory, plus, most folks are static, until, hopefully, they become upwardly mobile.
now you lookiie here now - in our office we had a clerical office cupboard but it didn’t do three hail marys every morning as we opened it up and then our man in the maintenance yard had a strong steel dangerous tools cupboard but he didn’t keep getting his tool out every hr to check it!!
Well the Police are not supposed to be stationary, they are supposed to running around catching crooks, a stationary copper is a useless copper, unless they have a desk job.
Why then do Soldiers have Barracks and not stations? Stations imply remote outposts for pony express riders to change horses, fur trappers to buy provisions and sell their wares, and telegraph operators, all back in the wild west of the 1800’s, that’s probably how Railway Stations originally got the name and it stuck, that’s my guess.
Let us spare a thought for the poor unfortunate African animals who were forcibly taken from their homeland and brought to the North Pole, stuck up there freezing to death in Ice Station Zebra, you don’t see any charities collecting for them and saying there are only three left, we gotta save them now before it’s too late.;-)
Thank you Gummy me oul pal for those additional station descriptions, nothing like a good spanner chucking to make things clearer. ;-)
I have trains in me blood, my father and his father before him were train drivers, I love travelling on them, and now I can go anywhere in Ireland for free with the pensioners pass.
That once favourite American singer of mine Del Shannon had a song featuring a “Railway Station”, don’t know how he got his surname, he was never within a thousand miles of the Shannon, but to give him his due he knows a Railway Station when he sees one, his song, not very well know and written by himself was a “B” side, incidentally his last record release was “You know you love me” on the “A” side and “Kiss me” on the backside, anyway the song opens like this.
“I went down to the Railway Station a honey
Overheard the conversation a honey
You were talkin to a guy named Jim
And the things that you were tellin him
You talked and talked so endlessly
Tears filled my eyes I couldn’t see
But you never talked about me honey
About Meeeeeeee a honey”
And on he went into that squeal of his, so memorable in his top hit “Runaway”, the same high notes that we all made fools of ourselves trying hopelessly to imitate, ah the folly of youth.
“One need have no cause to worry once one knows ones station in life” was it Queen Victoria who said that, or was it Maggie Thatcher?
I’m heading off to Tipperary with my beloved on the 4.45 train today, a funeral and later a wake, back on Friday so be good to each other.
‘rail stop’,gumbud? in RUSSIA?
M’DYAH chep,railway stations have many variations on their names,but “train depot” is probably the most common variant in the English-speaking world. The Russian railways have the most interesting one,namely “vokshol”,which derives from a Russian ministerial visit to British railways during the early 1930’s and the [then] main London terminus at Vauxhall. The Russian word derives from this visit, due to a a misunderstanding that “Vauxhall” meant “train station”.
But,the growing propensity for ‘easy-speak’,propagated by an ever-growing requirement not to have to speak correctly,nor utter all those EVER-so-inconvenient syllables,resulted in a popularly adopted acceptance of shortened adjectives & pronouns,around the time that kilometers became kilometers,when things that once were “up to you” were suddenly “down to you”,which was around the time people started saying they felt "good, rather than “well”; this was,of course,around the time adverbs became an endangered species. Thus,today people tend NOT to be ‘sitting’ or ‘standing’,but tend,insted,to be “sat” or “stood”. Innit tho,blud. LOL. Nah’t Ahmeen,bro. OMG,it’s WELL troll!
[death,where is thy sting…]
…ok…I’ll sod back off now…sorry…
Oi tink we may meed to get onta grammatical structuralling next and the use of paragraphy structure too oi tink maybe a bit too much anglia sun has annoited ye head with mumble gumbles and that from a gumbud means a lot!
How would F.R. David, have put it?
The subscribers to this thread have one thing in common, the ability to sweep a Sea Change, under the Carpet.
I don’t know - how would F/R david have put it - somewhere groovy I hope!
there’s nothing like walkin on a wet ocean!
Gummy, Skeletons should be firmly locked, in that Stationary Cupboard
no fear the last time I tried to lock a skeleton in a stationary cupboard I finished up struggling in the cupboard with the skeleton dancing from end to end with paper clips hanging around us like twinkling jewelry !! it was a nightmare of a job ; it’s teeth were gnashing up and down trying to kiss me - there was nothing stationary about that experience
Wasn’t it that great scandal monger Hedda Hopper who when asked about letting cats out of Hollywood bags said “If you have a few skeletons in the closet, then why not make them dance for you”
Good on ya Hedda!, everyone has something to hide, and some fellas have very little to hide but they still like to keep it covered up anyway.
“I wasn’t allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he’s gone no one has been able to shut me up”
(Hedda Hopper)
Yeah I know a few oul ones like that too Hedda.
Space Hoppers were very tactile, but, very inefficient, if I remember right.
no wonder he shut her up it would have been bad enough introducing her " erhmm this is my wife Hedda Hopper" really I’ve heard of heada ball or heddin off or heador tails but hedda hopper which leg did she normally hop on?
Yes the poor old geezer scored with a Hedda and regretted it till his dying day, and the irony of it all is he was never on a football pitch in his life.
For some reason unknown to me people seem to get great pleasure from reading about other peoples misfortunes, especially if those people are rich and famous, the worse the misfortune the more magazines and newspapers they sell, weird ain’t it.
I also find it weird the way folks gather around the scene of a car crash on the street, I wouldn’t go near the scene if I saw a crowd there, but if I was there when it happened I would do all I could to help the victims, then clear off when professional help arrived, barring the police wanted a statement from me first that is.
You just have to look at TV and see how many Hospital series are on everyday, some folks are addicted to watching blood and suffering, then theres a few more programs about cars crashing, people falling off cliffs and left in agony lying on a shaft of rock waiting for the helicopter to arrive, lots of that stuff is swallowed up by the public every single day, yet these folks will insist they are all perfectly normal, beats me.:shock:
Some folks “Walk the Walk”, then “Walk the Walk”.