Archive for The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum The Original Toy Steam Forum Established 2006 The biggest, most popular global steam forum around! Accept NO imitations! We have a growing community of regular posting members who chat about all aspects of toy and model steam.          The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum Forum Index -> Full Size Steam SapperAnt Overheard conversation of the year! Spent the day in York looking at all the Lazy Man Society contraptions with my brother. Both of us couldnt help but overhear a conversation between two obvious anoraks, c.50s, clutching thermos flasks and matching copies of Steam Railway (the Beano for steam enthusiasts). "Oooh. is that Flying Scotsman?" asked  one, pointing to Sots Guardsman. "I think so...well....its got the right name and its in wartime black of course." "It looks bloody odd tho." "Yeah well they said the Museum had buggered it about and messed it all up." "That'll be why then. Call themselves a museum!" Bro and I looked at each other and then had the giggles. Roly Williams Re: Overheard conversation of the year! SapperAnt wrote: Spent the day in York looking at all the Lazy Man Society contraptions with my brother. Both of us couldnt help but overhear a conversation between two obvious anoraks, c.50s, clutching thermos flasks and matching copies of Steam Railway (the Beano for steam enthusiasts). "Oooh. is that Flying Scotsman?" asked  one, pointing to Sots Guardsman. "I think so...well....its got the right name and its in wartime black of course." "It looks bloody odd tho." "Yeah well they said the Museum had buggered it about and messed it all up." "That'll be why then. Call themselves a museum!" Bro and I looked at each other and then had the giggles. I had a similar experience a while ago. I was at "Steam" - the GWR museum in Swindon, where they had a 4 cylinder King (or was it a Castle? I can't remember) sitting over a pit with public access underneath. There were two gents admiring the complicated gubbins between the frames and one said "This is very complicated for a single cylinder" - presumably under the impression it was a 3 cylinder engine. The other said - rather cockily "no! it's a 2 cylinder engine and this is all valve gear you can see".   pauly I love overhearing stuff like that Roly, its makes me feel so very smart   and yeah if it was a 4 cylinder it was a King Roly Williams pauly wrote: I love overhearing stuff like that Roly, its makes me feel so very smart   and yeah if it was a 4 cylinder it was a King I thought both Castles and Kings were both 4 cylinder pauly Roly Williams wrote: pauly wrote: I love overhearing stuff like that Roly, its makes me feel so very smart   and yeah if it was a 4 cylinder it was a King I thought both Castles and Kings were both 4 cylinder Yeah they both are Iv just checked, Kings are just all round beefer if Im remembering correctly. Roly Williams It was a Castle: Wandering-Willie Had one at the NYMR once, somebody thought a deltic was steam, but it was the clag, quite amusing. OldMetaller I had a similar one at the NRM, two middle-aged gents talking about the ffestiniog double Fairlie... 'Of course, it was two separate engines until 1899, you know!' Wtf?!   Regards, John. SapperAnt It really makes one wonder where people get this cr*p from. In my old  job at the Museum of the Manchester Regiment we used to regulalry get old codgers (usually ex military types, bristling moustaches and very what-ho eh what?) who came out with some right old stinkers For example "At Inkerman we didnt half show them Frenchies what for, eh?" (Inkerman fought 5-11-1854 was between an alliance of France and Britain against Russia in the Crimean War...) Or "At Waterloo the Grenadier Guards dipped their plumes in the blood of the dead Frenchmen which is why they've got red and white plumes" (Despite the fact that the Grenadier Guards were not called that at Waterloo (1815) and the plumes on their shakos were red and white from the Cross of St George - not as one old codger said because they were recruited originally from  Yorkshire and Lancashire (!)) Its all complete twaddle but believed and beloved twaddle. Which makes it rather had to debunk. MooseMan I was once told by a well-meaning old codger that I (being Johnny Continental) would never be a match for a proper Brit, because "it is a mentality thing, you know? Britain didn't lose the war!"...... I made my excuses and left, mumbling something about sailing up the Thames and bombing London.... SapperAnt I experience that all the time too. Sadly. The Eccentric MooseMan wrote: I was once told by a well-meaning old codger that I (being Johnny Continental) would never be a match for a proper Brit, because "it is a mentality thing, you know? Britain didn't lose the war!"...... I made my excuses and left, mumbling something about sailing up the Thames and bombing London.... I normally just agree with those types and let them leave.... i just ignore it, honestly, don't let it get your back up mate. If I am honest people from foreign lands tend to be better mannered and more pleasant than some of the fellow brits i have met in my time! for that matter, i just remembered i Like fresh continental waffles          The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum Forum Index -> Full Size Steam Page 1 of 1