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2001-04-05 01:12solenoid@syncopated.netOxford English Dictionary (use your local library!) sez: One (esp. a small boy) whose hobb
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Oxford English Dictionary (use your local library!) sez: One (esp. a small boy) whose hobby is observing trains and recording railway locomotive numbers. Hence train-spotting vbl. n.; train-spot v. intr. 1958 Spectator 11 July 70/3 A prize of six guineas is offered for a Train Spotters' Anthem. Ibid. 1 Aug. 179/1 Many of them must simply spend their time train-spotting. 1959 Manch. Guardian 22 July 2/6 British Railways..announced a ban on train-spotting..on about twelve main-line stations. 1969 Times 1 Nov. (Saturday Rev. Suppl.) p. iii/4 A train-spotting recluse, primed with exact information on lines that have rusted into the ground. 1974 P. MCCUTCHAN Coach North ii. 15 I reckon you're all past train spotting... The old man didn't look as though he'd ever train spotted. 1978 D. WILLIAMS Treasure up in Smoke xiv. 126 The Governor appeared to have graduated from train-spotter to Lord Protector in one short morning. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org
2001-04-05 22:45interdit@yahoo.com--- solenoid@syncopated.net wrote: > 1959 Manch. Guardian 22 July 2/6 British > Railways..
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quoted 3 lines 1959 Manch. Guardian 22 July 2/6 British> 1959 Manch. Guardian 22 July 2/6 British > Railways..announced a ban on train-spotting..on about twelve main-line > stations.
Ohhhh yes I remember that well, they sat in desparate anger for hours outside the station, clutching their notebooks and pens till their knuckles whitened, sandwiches getting wet from the cold afternoon drizzle, NHS spectacles fogged with the heat from their frustrated breaths.... An argument ensued amongst their ranks over Norman Wisdom pictures their anthem was his song "Don't laugh at me ('cause I'm a fool)" ....and someone yelled... "come to fucking daddy!" That said the new Orbital album "The Altogether" is pretty good, has two singing tracks David Gray on the first one I think, Also that Dr Who theme music cover, sounds a lot like a mix between Snivilization & In Sides, as an aside did anyone else ever get In Sides on vinyl and realise that there were six tracks and six sides 3xLP... so it was literally - "in sides" or was that just me? -i __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org