The *Lighter Side* --- WAS::: [Re: PRC tokens]

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:

>> I would be Bob.

> Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> Actually, you'd be Fred.  He'd be Bob.

> -D
> -needed a light moment

	On another list there was a discussion of the term *frog* and how it
came into use on the railway.  Things naturally turned to the lighter
side; hope these help to fill the need::

At least they used bolts and not ribbits to fasten the frog to the rail.

Speaking of frogs, does "All Green Ahead" refer to an upcoming Muppet
Movie starring Kermit and his family???:>))
Yes, it does, at least that is what they toad me.

These troll-like one line answers are becoming a Hobbitt with some of
us...:>))  Just check here if you don't believe me: 
http://www.mi.uib.no/~respl/tolkien/  "In a hole in the ground there
lived a Hobbit".

Ah, that's easy ... because in the early days, electrical contact was
bad at that "point", and your engines "croaked" while passing over the
"frog".:-)

James B. Holland

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