OT Monon, not Monan was Re: JCL, Cobol and "Call Parameters"

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:14:32 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:
 
>
>Yep, that's me, the sure-fire cure for insomnia... why, I remember once,
>when I was a lad, we was ridin' the rods on th' Monan road, me 'n ol'
>Lefty... called 'im Lefty 'cause... well, 'cause that's what we called
>'im, ain't ever'thin' got a reason behind it... like callin' this chair a
>'chair' or callin' yer dawg Phideaux 'er an'athin' like that... anyhow, we
>was ridin' th' rods on the Monan road, right pleasant bed it had, too...
>not as good as the Phoebe Snow, now *there* was road, all anthracite-fired
>an' slicker'n a hound's tooth... not like Phideaux, no, he's always showed
>a bit of a shadow on the left bicuspidor... anyhow, me 'n Lefty, we was
>ridin' the rods on the Monan road...

That was the Monon Railroad named after Monon, Indiana.  The Phoebe
Snow was a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western named after
a fictional woman they had used in their advertising in the early
1900's.
>
>... zzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzz...
>
>DD

In article <bdt9t2dim8fria6mtnr1g5j7h5o2rlqrde@4ax.com>,
Clark F Morris  <cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:14:32 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:

[snip]
 

[snip of soporofisms]

>That was the Monon Railroad named after Monon, Indiana.  The Phoebe
>Snow was a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western named after
>a fictional woman they had used in their advertising in the early
>1900's.

Really now, Mr Morris... do you expect *that* much of a hobo's spelling?

DD

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:12:55 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:

>In article <bdt9t2dim8fria6mtnr1g5j7h5o2rlqrde@4ax.com>,
>Clark F Morris  <cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: 
>
>[snip]
> 
>
>[snip of soporofisms]
> 
>
>Really now, Mr Morris... do you expect *that* much of a hobo's spelling?

No, I'm just a railfan being pedantic.
>
>DD

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