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webenda
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Postby webenda » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:39 pm

Pete,

I can see San in that description.

Interesting that you should bring up John Steinbeck after one of Tramp's literary posts. I often see glimpses of John Steinbeck in Tramp's writing, yet the style is not the same at all. Like comparing our leaders to strictured bulls... not Tramp's style at all. I think what I see in common is that both authors write on the nature of being human and our struggle to identify our place in the universe.

Also interesting, perhaps only to me, is that John Steinbeck died in 1968 from nearly complete occlusion of his main coronary arteries. In 1968 coronary artery bypass was just starting to be practiced in hospitals. If he had lived in Cleveland (171 bypass surgeries in 1968), things might have turned out differently.

Like Steinbeck, I had 100% blockage of my right and left coronary arteries. In 2004 President Clinton and I were among 249,000 patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafts in the United States.
----Wayne----

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GP
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Postby GP » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:05 am

webenda wrote:Pete,

I can see San in that description.

Interesting that you should bring up John Steinbeck after one of Tramp's literary posts. I often see glimpses of John Steinbeck in Tramp's writing, yet the style is not the same at all. Like comparing our leaders to strictured bulls... not Tramp's style at all. I think what I see in common is that both authors write on the nature of being human and our struggle to identify our place in the universe.

Also interesting, perhaps only to me, is that John Steinbeck died in 1968 from nearly complete occlusion of his main coronary arteries. In 1968 coronary artery bypass was just starting to be practiced in hospitals. If he had lived in Cleveland (171 bypass surgeries in 1968), things might have turned out differently.

Like Steinbeck, I had 100% blockage of my right and left coronary arteries. In 2004 President Clinton and I were among 249,000 patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafts in the United States.


Wayne,

But if he had lived in Cleveland he wouldn't have been Steinbeck.

Mississippi and the South were too much a part of what made him great.

My Grandfather died in '68 after his second heart attack. Very little done

back then compared to now. With todays knowledge he would have lived.

As for me, 80% blocked LAD (left anterior decending) coronanry artery...

angioplasty and stents. A year later, 80% blockage in the RAC (right

coronary artery) ... again angioplasty and stents. By pass probable in the

future. :)

GP

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Postby 2railjon » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:15 pm

Steinbeck's, ok. The talent is with Elwood. Sorry. :wink:
Listen Willie. You gotta understand these guys are orphan remnants of the post Perestroika Soviet secret police apparatus which until 1991 carried out its twisted interpretation of the original well intentioned Marxist-Leninist doctrine vis-a-vis state security which was massively corrupted by Lavrenta Beria in the thirties. Of course, once a mass populace is coerced into this behavior as a permanent condition, a radical didactic dialectic shift such as Glasnost produces guys like these: stunned headless automata whose only alternative in their new lives is the continuation of brutish measures to which their genetic code has been programmed since before the fall of the Romanovs.


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Postby 2railjon » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:14 pm

Speakin' of movies..... has anyone noticed the similarities between Tramp and Bruce Willis in the movie: "The Jackal"? :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Postby AG » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:26 pm

Congratulation for your post 10K
yeap the sunglasses
Beer time!!!
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Postby rogruth » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:56 pm

Jon,

How many locos,layouts etc. have you gone through during the time of 10000 posts?
roger

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Postby laz57 » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:26 am

JON,
BIG CONGA on 10000 posts. YOU DA MAN!!!!! How many beers did you go through while on the forum?
laz57

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Postby 2railjon » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:36 am

Ahhh.... I think a beer a post would be a good guess!!!!! :wink:












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Jumijo
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Postby Jumijo » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:31 pm

Hey Jon -

It's quantity, not quality!

Be good or be gone?

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Postby 2railjon » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:40 pm

Be good or be gone?

OK!!!! Red Sox...........Be Gone!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:
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Postby AG » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:19 pm



It's quantity, not quality!

Be good or be gone?

IT'S WHAT SHE SAID......
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Postby Tramp » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:31 pm

Jon, a few times strangers have told me I look like BW. Oh, well. I just smacked 'em upside the head.




I'm trying to get my 1950 LE Velocette running. Put in all new studs today, feeling very fortunate that I managed to extract the old ones. New gaskets, plugs have been removed (had to grind and modify the socket). Not as exciting as Pete's Farmall, but we all have our own dreams.
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When this distance is read in miles.

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Postby 2railjon » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:25 pm

Tramp, Awesome piece of cycle history!!! Pictures, please!!!!! :D :D
Oh, as a side note: I've found that mixing vodka and Oceanspray Cran-grape tastes just like Night Train Wine, only with a bigger kick!!! Science is cool!!!
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Postby Tramp » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:42 pm

The heads are reconditioned.

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Postby hev52 » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:00 pm

Tramp.................git that runnin' then ya can tool around town and save on gas........................... :wink: How many miles on a gallon does it git...................... Nice lookin' piece of history there.........................



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