Worth a Laugh....

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

> Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:
 
> Here's something worth a laugh or two,

> > Dan Hammond wrote:

> > (Can anybody
> > tell us if the PCC design is in the "public domain" or did the designs get
> > gobbled up by Bombardier? We need good designs to replace to-day's transit
> > junk!)

> Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:

> Let's see, since certain materials such as Bakelite, brass, porcelain, cloth wire
> insulation and braided cable covers are no longer being produced in volume/or as
> traction material, we must discard the entire design and build a heavier, more
> complicated, less reliable, more power-hungry machine around the newer materials.

	I think they call that  *hitting--the--nail--on--the--head!!!!!*  -- 
And probably multiple times over.  Definitely funny, even if it is
true!!

> Fantastic. And let's call the new cars "light rail" instead of "streetcars" or
> "trolleys" (even when they run on the same lines such as in Boston, Pittsburgh,
> Sharon Hill, Media, Shaker Heights, San Francisco, etc.) so we can distance them
> from their predesessors.

	A Rose by any other name . . . . . . . .
		Is a Petunia!!

	Does Tracie know she is saying all these things?!?!

James B. Holland

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