Re: Thanks, Earl!
| January 07, 2019 08:01PM |
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Earl Wrote:
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> It's always easy to tell us apart. I'm the good-
> looking one. At least that's what my wife keeps
> saying . . . .
Wayne Hoskin Wrote:
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> Aren't wives beautiful condescending creatures!
> . . . . 'Til you do something wrong!
John Cole Wrote:
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> Maybe so Earl, but Stebbins wore his derby to
> his daughter's wedding.nbsp; I suspect he has that
> thing stapled to his noggen . . . .
There's no question that Earl, still bein' a (relatively) young whipper-snapper, is #1 — TODAY -
But IMHO yores trooly (Roosso) had Earl beat in the Derby-Hatted Engineer Contest a quarter-century ago (see third photo on [ngdiscussion.net]), and a quarter-century before that Jeff Stebbins topped both of us in his pre-Derby days aboard (or chasing?) the NPS Special:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> It's always easy to tell us apart. I'm the good-
> looking one. At least that's what my wife keeps
> saying . . . .
Wayne Hoskin Wrote:
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> Aren't wives beautiful condescending creatures!
> . . . . 'Til you do something wrong!
John Cole Wrote:
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> Maybe so Earl, but Stebbins wore his derby to
> his daughter's wedding.nbsp; I suspect he has that
> thing stapled to his noggen . . . .
There's no question that Earl, still bein' a (relatively) young whipper-snapper, is #1 — TODAY -
But IMHO yores trooly (Roosso) had Earl beat in the Derby-Hatted Engineer Contest a quarter-century ago (see third photo on [ngdiscussion.net]), and a quarter-century before that Jeff Stebbins topped both of us in his pre-Derby days aboard (or chasing?) the NPS Special:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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