MarkLewis
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Mustang, OK
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 | | 02/20/2008 11:07 AM |
| There's a new home for whimsy nuts. By all means check out AWNUTS Again.
Mark | |
Mark Lewis
Mustang, OK
email: oktrains@oktrains.com
Don't anthropomorphize your trains. They hate that. | |
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Dave F
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Sandy, Utah
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| | 02/20/2008 11:22 AM |
| | Very cool site. I didn't have time to really take a deep look, but I'll have to spend some time over there this weekend. I have a few structures that would fit in over there nicely.. | |
Dave Fulghum,
CEO/Gandy dancer: Lone Peak & Western Railway.
Member, Utah Garden Railway Society.
www.lonepeakandwestern.bravehost.com | |
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sheepdog
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N.E. Hoosierland
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| | 02/20/2008 1:27 PM |
| | Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!. Right up my alley! | |
I got down with my bad self....
Now I can't get up. | |
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vsmith
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SoCal
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| | 02/20/2008 2:36 PM |
| Yeeahhh!  | |
 Kitbashing, welcome to the Dark Side | |
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ThinkerT
Alaska
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| | 02/20/2008 3:29 PM |
| | A bit empty in there, yet. | | | |
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vsmith
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SoCal
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| | 02/20/2008 5:09 PM |
| Give it time! | |
Kitbashing, welcome to the Dark Side | |
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Josef Rieder
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Daly City/Palos Verdes
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| | 02/21/2008 1:41 AM |
| | Wow, I havent seen A.W.N.U.T.S. in ages! | | | |
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Joe Johnson
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Hunt, Texas
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| | 02/21/2008 4:17 AM |
| I remember when I first saw the original site a few years ago. It was great and I couldn't wait until it added new sections. Then I waited, and I waited, and I waited........
I hope it does take off. The original really was a fun place. | |
Joe Johnson
Guadalupe Forks RR
Charter member of the Roundhouse Irregulars
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Fritz
Brakeman
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| | 02/22/2008 1:11 PM |
| Hi,
I am not too Happy with their "Forth Reich" in the title story . I do not not which one was the first or second Reich. Heard horrible things about the Third Reich, Home of the Nazies. Do not really trust in any Reichs, whatever the number might be. That´s not my tradition.
AW Nuts was a great and funny railroad magazine, which started in the early Nineties. I occasionally contributed a story or two from Kraehwinkle to its pages myself- . Still miss the Balducci Brothers. Got aquainted to some fine and strange people over there. Who´s work I still admire. Peter Barnfield, Peter Jones, Chris Walas, B. Bates, Graham Stowell etc.
So I´ll keep an eye on it and see, how it develops. I bit of light vein and some humor surely would do the largescale hobby good.
Have Fun
Fritz / Juergen Zirner
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Semper Vaporo
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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| | 02/22/2008 2:00 PM |
| | "Fourth Reich" was an immediate turn-off for me also. | |
 C. T. McCullough
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
SA #37469
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sheepdog
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N.E. Hoosierland
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| | 02/22/2008 3:33 PM |
| I skipped the intro bull and headed to the forums..... That Forth Reich crap is going to stop me from posting anything in there. Thanks for the heads up Fritz and Charles.
Craig | |
I got down with my bad self....
Now I can't get up. | |
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hcampbell
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Connecticut USA
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| | 02/22/2008 5:33 PM |
| After a couple shots at the foolishness of the registration form I say "Awnuts!" I'll pass on this one.
Harvey C. | | | |
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MarkLewis
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Mustang, OK
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| | 02/22/2008 6:37 PM |
| Posted By sheepdog on 02/22/2008 3:33 PM
I skipped the intro bull and headed to the forums..... That Forth Reich crap is going to stop me from posting anything in there. Thanks for the heads up Fritz and Charles.
Craig
It struck me as an obvious joke. If that sort of thing offended you, then you probably wouldn't be happy with anything whimiscal.
Mark
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Mark Lewis
Mustang, OK
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Semper Vaporo
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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| | 02/22/2008 7:03 PM |
| | Some things can be joked about in a veiled way and others need OBVIOUS cues to the joke. This one has no OBVIOUS cues and thus is not a joke to those that know the effect of what they are referring to. | |
C. T. McCullough
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
SA #37469
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Fritz
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sheepdog
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N.E. Hoosierland
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| | 02/23/2008 8:16 AM |
| Whimiscal? Nope, it is not for me........
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I got down with my bad self....
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blackburn49
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Copper Center, Alaska
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| | 02/23/2008 11:15 AM |
| Posted By sheepdog on 02/23/2008 8:16 AM
Whimiscal? Nope, it is not for me........
Pretty wild, Craig ! Just . . . wild! Nope. Not for you. Yes, indeed. | |
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sheepdog
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N.E. Hoosierland
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| | 02/23/2008 1:29 PM |
| Here is a link for you Ron..... Please keep in mind that I don't care for whimsical.... Nor do the others mentioned in the article.
Prop Car
Craig  | |
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Now I can't get up. | |
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cjwalas
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Santa Barbara, California
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| | 02/23/2008 7:02 PM |
|  As someone without a whimsical bone in his body, I have no interest whatsoever in this AWNUTS Again site...no matter how long I've been a member there. 
And while I don't particularly think the "Fourth Reich" joke is entirely appropriate either, let's be fair. The website is titled "the Whimsical world of AWNUTS again" with the image of a large cartoon rodent and the line is repeated just below it. The Fourth Reich line is immediately followed by an apology as well. I think it's a stretch to say that that there are no obvious cues that it's a joke.
Personally, I'm with Fritz / Juergen (Juergen, my old friend, I never asked you why you go by Fritz?) when he says that some humor would surely do the largescale hobby some good. So let's see some silly train stuff!
Chris
PS. Juergen, does that dragon powered, gnome driven car really run??? | |
Chris Walas - Rogue County Rwy
Santa Barbra, California
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blackburn49
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Copper Center, Alaska
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| | 02/23/2008 8:06 PM |
| Posted By sheepdog on 02/23/2008 1:29 PM
Here is a link for you Ron..... Please keep in mind that I don't care for whimsical.... Nor do the others mentioned in the article. Prop Car
Craig
You've made a believer out of me, Craig! No whimsical Craig-world. No. None.
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