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A Steam Locomotive Glossary
[The following English railways text features over three hundred specific technical terms for the parts of the steam locomotive. [OUC] From Railway Technical Web Pages, at: http://www.railway-technica… more →
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A Steam Locomotive Glossary
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tiocuervo wrote 3 months ago: [The following English railways text features over three hundred specific technical terms for the pa … more →
A Glossary of Train Lingo
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tiocuervo wrote 3 months ago: [For the sake of online information redundancy, I have taken the liberty of of reproducing the follo … more →
A Glossary of Railroad Lingo
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tiocuervo wrote 5 months ago: by Freeman H Hubbard, B W Allen, F W Smoter etal [For the sake of online information redundancy, I h … more →
...In A Sling
tiocuervo wrote 7 months ago: by Old Uncle Crow Our divorced and widowed mother was an anxious parent. “Don’t come cr … more →
Up Yours
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tiocuervo wrote 7 months ago: by Old Uncle Crow The correct form in rural Eagle Lake, MN, in the 1950s among male members of the s … more →
Normalcy All Over Again
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tiocuervo wrote 7 months ago: by Judson Andersen Now that we get word that Minnesota is in the shit and needs a whopping tax incre … more →
Police Slang: What The SOB's Say About US Behind Our Backs!
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tiocuervo wrote 9 months ago: by Old Uncle Crow Here’s a nice sample for you: Station Cat: Officer who preens themselves and … more →
What's WHAT On The RR!
tiocuervo wrote 10 months ago: by Old Uncle Crow Anybody in the know and who’s been following the postings at http://bodwyn.w … more →
Today's Transatlantic Gag
tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow This entry in a UK web log today, The Landed Underclass, has a pretty funny bit in … more →
Italian Mathematics....
tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow (With a big hat-tip to Mr Ghostly Gardens! OUC) A recent Italian immigrant comes … more →
The Commander Cashes In
tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow (With a smiling tile-tip, to Aunty online at: http://anticant.blogspot.com/ (OUC) … more →
An Archaic Grammatical Form In South Minneapolis
tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow In the 1950s, as a small boy in South Minneapolis in the old Swedish ghetto surrou … more →
UK-isms Of To-day, er...Today!
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tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow [Here are, er, IS a load of contemporary catchwords, phrases and slang now to be h … more →
MORE "Incorrect" Etymology!
tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow The following is the 2008 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M Un … more →
False Etymology The Bane Of Scatologists
tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow Here’s an example of sham etymology that, while it doesn’t help, IS … more →
An 1885 Horsetrade In Old Squawbunion County
tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow When “Irish Mike” Schluckbebier (!) over here by Marysburg, MN., tried … more →
"...Like A Cat Eating Shit!"
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tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow After shaking hands with Congressman Eugene McCarthy in his white shortsleeved shi … more →
Minnesota Computer Terminology
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tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow (With a big tip of the Crow Lid to ZFasthand! OUC) LOG ON: making da vood stove h … more →
This One Says It All...In American Anyway
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tiocuervo wrote 1 year ago: by Old Uncle Crow Well, shit, this one has been making the rounds on the subject…. That … more →
