I am from Kirkwood,over nehind hobby station. anyone from around there?
oh sure!
Kirkwood by the hobby shop..everyone knows where that is! ;)
I live over on Whittier Road..you have probably heard of it.
Scot
Ohio. Welcome back, Plasser.
Quote from: UP5511 on June 21, 2007, 02:25:03 PM
I am from Kirkwood,over nehind hobby station. anyone from around there?
do you know that guy who lives on Main street?
he drives that red car.
my cousin lives down the road, near McDonalds across from the gas station.
I have always wanted to see those trains that run on that track near that blue building..do you know how to get there?
Scot
I live near Huntingdon.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Quote from: JWBDolphins on June 21, 2007, 03:13:39 PM
Ohio. Welcome back, Plasser.
Yea glad too see you again...
Hmmm, he knows a little punctuation...
Capitalization and spelling he still needs to work on...
Looks like we are in for another ride. Hopefully this one won't be as bumpy.....
Anyway, welcome back to the forums......... ;)
Quote from: scottychaos on June 21, 2007, 03:17:52 PM
Quote from: UP5511 on June 21, 2007, 02:25:03 PM
I am from Kirkwood,over nehind hobby station. anyone from around there?
do you know that guy who lives on Main street?
he drives that red car.
my cousin lives down the road, near McDonalds across from the gas station.
I have always wanted to see those trains that run on that track near that blue building..do you know how to get there?
Scot
I live on the street with the five foot deep "Swails" on it, by the mall, and the freeway.
Seriously now, Seattle Washington.
Great to have you back kobi after you got banned twice from trains.com. If you act nice and don't lie, you may come here once again.
I've been to the hobby shop in Kirkwood quite a few times over the years.
I'm about 80 miles South of there now.
:D Mother Goose!!! :D
I woulda thought after the massive blasting from everyone and ban you got on the Trains forums you would be smarter than coming back over here.
Better mind your manners little boy.....the eyes of the forums are upon you.
I live in Colorado, about 10 miles north of the river. You can't miss it, there are a lot of deer in my front yard.
Bo
I'm from - I'm an army brat. Let it go at that.
I thought that UP was suspicious.
It's "Where," not "were."
"You all" is incorrect, substandard English unless the speaker is from the South, in which case it's "Y'awl" and is addressed to a group as a group.
Gene
Quote from: SteamGene on June 21, 2007, 08:47:13 PM
It's "Where," not "were."
"You all" is incorrect, substandard English unless the speaker is from the South, in which case it's "Y'awl" and is addressed to a group as a group.
Gene
Some folks never change...........everyone get out your decoder rings...........
Check my signature block.
Bob
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Eh
brad
Y'all is not substandard English, it is the plural of "you". Sure beats the pants off the "youse" many of you Yankees use! Y'all is gaining acceptance nationally.
A New Yorker that got smart and moved South a half century ago. ;)
My wife's got an aunt in Saskatoon. Surely you know her. (Actually, her name is Shirley.) Great place, albeit rainy when were there.
Me, I live in mass suburbia. I'm the green house with the trees in the front and the SUV in the driveway. ;D (Centennial, CO)
And yes, "y'all" is proper.
Later,
K
Third Rail,
Formal standard English got rid of a separte plural form for "You" around the time of Shakespeare's death. Even then it only occured in the familiar form. (Thou art a knave. You are knaves.) You are obviously old enough to have sat through the congugation of verbs back in high school:
I run trains We run trains
You run trains You run trains
He runs trains They run trains.
Remember?
OTOH, I agree that ya'll sounds nicer than "youse."
Gene
Southeast Iowa. I have several railroads that operate in my area for inspiration.
I live in the brown house near that trailer park just past the cotton field and before that little church. There's a mailbox in front and a bass boat in back, and this little yappy dog every now and then.
Y'all is very commonly used around here. It seems 'formal' to me because I have heard it so much.
This place would be Huntsville, AL
From the land of the Mudhens, 40mi S. of The Durango & Silverton, & 90mi W. of the Cumbres & Toltec. Farmington, New Mexico. Whose Oil Boom of the 50s & 60s saved the narrow gage lines West of Alamosa Co, and all the Mudhen Ks that hauled the drill pipe and pipelines in to Farmington, there by making the D&RG from Walsenberg West profitable for years..
Dave Taylor
New Mexico Northern RR
Gene;
Y'alls mean to tell me they said "youse" when Willie the Shake was around?
Rich
Connecticut-THE Constitution State! Also the fourth smallest. Youse'll see when y'alls come on down!!
"Ya'll" is plural.
No, in Shakespeare's time, and it was beginning to change then, second person singular familiar was "thou art," but second person plural familiar was "you are." Second person formal was "you are" in both singular and plural.
But it was changing. In one of the comedies one character says to another: "You are an ass." Tradtionally he should have said "Thou art an ass."
Gene
Dear Gene,
My sister-in-law from KY says "y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural! Around here in central PA that pertains to "yinz" being singular and "yinzes" as plural. Ain't that a hoot!
Best Wishes,
Jack
Jack, folks say things like that. I've heard the same in many areas of the South.
Gene
I'm from the South's most northern city, Y'all know what city? Hint, Home of the "Standard Railroad of the World"
:) :) Or if you are from above the Mason-Dixon line, it s "U'ins".
white house on Oak Street in Atlanta.....Royce
Philc40,
Not to challenge your own definiton of yourself, but if you mean Philly, home the once mighty PRR, than I have to take exception to your notion that Philly is a Southern city.
And to all,
As a life long resident of the border state of Maryland, which truely is the state that is not really comfortable as part of the South or the North, nothing North of the Mason Dixon has any claim to being part of the South.
But poor Maryland, the only slave state that did not secede and the only state to have formal named units fighting on both sides in the War of Northern Agression. Home of Lincoln's assin, Conferate Generals, and home of industries and a railroad that helped the North win. The State that had both free and slave blacks in 1860, in fact it had more free blacks than slave on the fatefull day of the first shots on Baltimore streets when crouds threw bricks at Yankee troops.
So, now, if you want to speak of the the special nature of the Mid Atlantic, that's another story. The Mid Atlantic, those states south and west of the Hudson River and North of the Potomac, (New York, Pennsylvana, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey), has its own unique style, speach, history, architecture, cluture, and traditions that are neither "Northern" or "Southern".
And generally, most people native to the Mid Atlantic don't use any of the phrases in question, we simply say "you", but we fail at pronoucing the name of one of our major cities, Baltimore is often heard as "balmore" or "balimore".
As for me, I live in the big blue Queen Anne house with the turret and the wrap around porch, eight houses up from Tucker's store, and the tracks of the Ma & Pa run right behind my house, in the little village of Forest Hill. (at least this would have been a accurate discription in 1905 or so)
Sheldon
Sheldon,
Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were all slave states. None of them passed Ordinances of Succession.
Gene
Gene,
Thank you for the correction and reminder on that. I simply forgot about Delaware's slave status, and forgot about those two "new" states alltogether.
Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri, while allowing slavery, did not have slavery based economies. Maryland, especially southern Maryland was truely a "southern state" in an economic sense. Baltimore and the western part of the state had many "northern sympathies" and had little use for slavery, but even many of those people where reluctant to go against their neighbors in the southern part of the state. As a State we where truely divided on the issue.
But my main point was Maryland is certainly the northern most southern State and the identity of the Mid Atlantic is allways lost in this "North - South" thing.
Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvana, New Jersey and even New York (espescialy up state), have many things in common that seperate them from New England and from the South East.
I have enjoyed most of my time living, working and traveling in the Mid Atlantic, but will happily move to the south in a few years as the Mid Atlantic now cannot decide if it wants to be like New England or California, neither outcome is acceptable for me.
Sheldon
I'm down just past where the old berry fields used to be. Oh ya right ! They are still there ! I'm across the street from the wheat fields and this is called Troutdale.
From that City State that is 'celebrating' 10 years of being Chinese, which is the home of Bachmann's parent company -Kader.
Thanks for the history lesson regarding North / South etc- good stuff.
BTW I am a Brit. Y'all know ?
Another guy from Saskatoon checking in. Saskatoon is in Canada, the land of ice and snow. High for today was 30 degrees.
Being from Saskatoon, I know Brad and even Kevin's Great Aunt Shirley (at least, maybe she is one of the dozen or so Shirleys I know.)
In a small town like S'toon, with only 200,000 population, everybody knows everybody, or at least knows somebody who knows them.
Allegan, Mi.
Michigan, home of the Pere Marquette R.R.
Michigan, home of the Shay Locomotive.
#94 is the c/n of the T- Boiler Shay locomotive that the Dewing & Sons Lumber Co. used on the Allegan & Lake Shore R.R.
"Y'all ain't from around here are ya" a phrase we heard often in the South during a trip we made from Saskatoon to Vero Beach, Florida when we stopped to eat. St. Louis, Council Bluffs, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Jacksonville, 6600 miles in 6 days, what a trip.
brad
P.S I know Shirley too ;D
I thought it was "Y'all ain't from around here....IS YA?!!?" My mother-in-law is Shirley, hmm. BTW, the OP has been awfully silent.....banished? - that would have to be some kind of speed record!
I think we sound better that canadians EH..........Royce
Quote from: ASIANLIFE on June 23, 2007, 11:59:23 PMFrom that City State that is 'celebrating' 10 years of being Chinese, which is the home of Bachmann's parent company -Kader.
Thanks for the history lesson regarding North / South etc- good stuff.
BTW I am a Brit. Y'all know ?
Whatever anybody might say, hang on to that little maroon/blue book with your picture in, that states....'without let or hindrance'....
Could still be the best decision you ever made in your life to retain it.
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Sheldon,
E-mail me sometime. I grew up in Forest Hill (closer to Sharon Station on the track). Shopped at Klien's old store (Tucker's) until they closed it. Mom would let us play around the Station and that old narrow gauge engine of Ralphs. I now live in Saint Paul MN and would Love to hear whats new back home.
Wade
Brooklyn here!
i guess everyone is from the midwest!
yo ohio!
wut's up
I'm about 24,860 blocks north-west of Brad. Give or take a few.
Hey, I was wondering why some of us (me, being one) have been posting but still have no posts numbers to our credit. Also, I tried to create an avatar and signitaure but couldn't. Anyone have any reason why this is?
Edmonton, Alberta here.......was in the Tidewater area of Virginia for past 7 years though.
Man....I forgot how cold winter got up here.
Lorne.....you still planning on coming to the city soon?
Sid
Lorne,
I think sombody complained about the post count and it got stopped, just like the jr. member, regular member classification when this began.
Gene
Quote from: WoundedBear on July 02, 2007, 01:05:38 PM
Edmonton, Alberta here.......was in the Tidewater area of Virginia for past 7 years though.
Man....I forgot how cold winter got up here.
Lorne.....you still planning on coming to the city soon?
Sid
I hope so. I gotta check out that layout of yers. :)
I'll try to make it down there sometime in August.
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, (20 min north of Edmonton) :), new home, new back yard and soon to be a new NFLD narrow gauge as soon as I can figure out the salt water ratio in the pond. ???
New Mexico (Albuquerque & Las Cruces)
Lorne, That would put you some where between Saskatoon and Grande Praiire? ;D
brad
Orlando, Florida here.
Quote from: brad on July 03, 2007, 09:13:12 AM
Lorne, That would put you some where between Saskatoon and Grande Praiire? ;D
brad
You're a good guesser, Brad. I'm in Grande Prairie.
Looks like we've got another Albertan with us. Good to see you here Twolfe. Looks like you, me, and Sid are all gonna have to get together sometime.
Jesse, on the shore of Lake Sam Rayburn in Brookeland, Texas.....
YeeeeHawwww!
Quote from: Lorne on July 03, 2007, 11:48:05 PM
Quote from: brad on July 03, 2007, 09:13:12 AM
Lorne, That would put you some where between Saskatoon and Grande Praiire? ;D
brad
You're a good guesser, Brad. I'm in Grande Prairie.
Looks like we've got another Albertan with us. Good to see you here Twolfe. Looks like you, me, and Sid are all gonna have to get together sometime.
I lived in Dawson Creek in the early 70's just a good stones throw from you. Also lived in Calgary in 70-72.
brad
Quote from: brad on July 05, 2007, 11:09:02 PM
Quote from: Lorne on July 03, 2007, 11:48:05 PM
Quote from: brad on July 03, 2007, 09:13:12 AM
Lorne, That would put you some where between Saskatoon and Grande Praiire? ;D
brad
You're a good guesser, Brad. I'm in Grande Prairie.
Looks like we've got another Albertan with us. Good to see you here Twolfe. Looks like you, me, and Sid are all gonna have to get together sometime.
I lived in Dawson Creek in the early 70's just a good stones throw from you. Also lived in Calgary in 70-72.
brad
Back then I was in Vancouver. I was born and raised out there and only moved to GP about 6 years ago.
Ya, Dawson is pretty close. only about 40 mins from here.
Hi there. You were asking where we are all from? Auckland, New Zealand. I model American H O transition era with the emphasis on articulated steam. Cheers from this side of the pacific. Rob.
I live at Shawnigan Lake British Columbia Canada Which is 40 mins north of Victoria on Vancover Island
I guess I'm the only one from the Garden State of NJ? ;) In the middle of South Jersey, and hour from Philly and an hour from Atlantic City. ;D
i assume nobody accept me is from toronto ontario huh? if im wrong and u live near finch + birchmount rd (scarborough) gimmie a shout ;D