Cafe Einstein - LPTPW 17 - animal, vegetable, and/or a minerally type chemically thing, and maybe some other things as well, yes :)

Hi Phil!

I'll be conductor on the CNW bilevel train Saturday night. That's currently my only assignment all weekend, but there are a few open jobs I could do. I'm thinking the open streetcar, so I can sign in late enough not to die on the bilevels.

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Since I can't post this at Seti right now, I'll park it here. MSI Chicago auctioning rail artifacts. If someone wants to bring it to Bernie's attention while I'm busy, go ahead.

Gallery type. The upper level is not a full floor. The middle third of it, more or less, is open space above the center aisle of the lower level. This allows a single conductor, collector, or trainman to collect tickets or fares from both levels in one pass through the car.

I did not know Queen Annie had a twin sister!!

Shhhhhhh that's on a need to know basis.

But the last time when you tried it in aid of homeless telecomms engineers, all you got was 3 and thruppence, a fluffy bullseye, and a used second class stamp!

Now then, we have one sandwich short of a picnic, and one can short of a six pack, but hey "sudden gleam in eye* we now have courtesy of Queen Anne II, a brand new one.

"One button short of a cardigan"

I shall contact the OED forthwith, fifthwith even.

Ah yes the "Deadly Vacuous Discombobulations". There is a small epidemic at present. Symptoms are usually those of going upstairs, forgetting what you went up there for, going back down again, then remembering, and then thinking oh sod it, I can't be bothered now anyway. *Beams brightly at the assembled throng looking on in awe at such medical knowledge*.

The recommended treatment is to lay down quietly in a cool dark cellar, ignoring any men with 3 foot beards looking for their girlfriend Beattie, and compose ones thoughts to those of Pooh Bear cocktails on the veranda*

*doesn't always work if you live in a basement flat but hey, Jack Daniels has a living to make you know!