[PRCo] Re: Knowledge

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I got the quote from Chick Seibert!  It's visible on my office wall for all
to see.  But I do like to say it!!

Happy Turkey Day!

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 6:54 PM
To: boris cefer; pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Knowledge


Hi, guys,
I have no knowledge of American, nor Pennsylvania customs, but my
feeling is
that you have some holiday tomorrow!
So I wish to all of you happy THANKSGIVING DAY!!!

Boris


You are an enigma ... sometimes I think you know too much about America
... so much that either you are really not in Ostrava or you were
trained by the Kremlin to infiltrate us.

Thanksgiving day is a day we all sit down, eat a poor big bird that
didn't have a chance to get away, and then fall asleep in front of a
football game on television while the wives do the dishes.
Theoretically it has something to do with the indians (who really were
named that because their discoverers didn't know there was another
continent in the way).   We supposedly had a big party to thank the
Indians in Massachusetts for helping us take their land away from them.
Something really doesn't ring true.  So it is really a day to overeat so
we can all go to the exercise spas in Friday to try to wear the weight
back off.   And we get to meet all our relatives, and then we can be
thankful that some of them will go back home until next year.

It is also a day in which the Maryland Department of Transportation
shuts down the MARK railroad trains, the subway, and the light rail line
out of fear that someone might want to use it.  Imagine the poor baggage
handlers at BWI airport who use it to get to work everyday, and tomorrow
they won't have it.  These are the poor slobs with no money to buy a
car.  I imagine that the union might have told DOT that we won't work on
a holiday and the managers felt, if we let them off, we can go home too.

Great parallels to the previous week's announcment of a new "strategy"
for snow operations for METRO in Washington DC.  The word strategy,
inside the Beltway, means "do nothing".  Remember that this is an area
with 3 million people, all of whom owe their wealth to telling the rest
of the nation, and Iraq and Tony Blair too, how they should live.  The
new strategy?  Any time there is 8 inches of snow, i.e. an inch over the
rail head, WMATA will shut down and everybody can dash home to their
suburban homes in cul-de-sacs and wait for God to take the snow away
again.   Maybe we are better off with them snowed in.   Or as Ed
Lybarger so often likes to say, "Be thankful you don't get all the
government you pay for."

All of you ... have a great holiday and don't eat too much.  Enjoy it
whether turkey, or an Indian curry, or Sechwan pork, or even a sandwich
and a six-pack of Iron City Beer.   I can give thanks for living in a
country where I can pick fun at those in government who teach us how to
screw things up.

fws