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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:29:46 -0700
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RE: [idm] Trainspotters?
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Rail fans are among us... my Father is a literal trainspotter... he's got decades worth of photographs of them... these days he goes out into the field and does recordings with a portable Mini-Disc recorder and uses ProTools to edit these and produces small runs of CD-R's of his train recordings. Josh -----Original Message----- From: Pier G Antolini [mailto:antolini@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:26 PM To: idm@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [idm] Trainspotters? Importance: High Man that's the most logical and quite frankly most beautiful answer! Makes me want to leave everything behind and live my life doing that. Except i'm not sure if trains today would give the same romantic reward that old steam locomotives do.. well (..maybe a possible time travel destination)..then being a bit of a trainspotter myself i have to admit that there are too many 'locomotives' around to spot and...blah blah blah thanks.r. ----------
quoted 16 lines From: Kevin Lewandowski <kevin@zinkmedia.com>> From: Kevin Lewandowski <kevin@zinkmedia.com> > To: Pier G Antolini <antolini@worldnet.att.net> > Cc: idm@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: [idm] Trainspotters? > Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:11 PM > > I've been told the true meaning of the term goes way back to when > train buffs would write down the numbers of all the steam locomotives > they saw, with the goal of seeing (or spotting) all of them. > > Today it just means music fanatics :) > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:17:53PM -0400, Pier G Antolini wrote: > > Ok can any of you folks from the Isle help clarify the meaning of > > trainspotting or being a trainspotter? > > That is such a classic idm word, but i never had a clear clue of what
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quoted 12 lines meant.> > meant. > > Thanks.r. > > > > ---------- > > -- > Kevin Lewandowski :: http://www.discogs.com > kevin@zinkmedia.com :: http://www.beatseek.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org
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