Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[mondatoo]

He is really good though

I was watching QI tonight and when watching it I thought to myself,Tank is the Stephen Fry of blonde.I don't have the authority to crown you with such a title so I hope tikay agrees and thus will do the honours.

[tikay]

He is really good though

I was watching QI tonight and when watching it I thought to myself,Tank is the Stephen Fry of blonde.I don't have the authority to crown you with such a title so I hope tikay agrees and thus will do the honours.

I would happily do so, but I'm not sure Tanky would appreciate that. I think he does more levels than anyone here, so cleverly, that I never know his levs fom his non-levs. Awesome writing ability, whatever way you look at it.

When the Tanks, Tighty's, Reds, Andrew-t's etc, start mixing it up, it enlivens this place, they know the difference between a debate & an argument. "GG "lol, "dousche", & "joke".

[mondatoo]

Although I am a big fan of Stephen Fry,If I was given the choice to share time with him or David Attenborough I think I would have to choose David Attenborough,the man is amazing.I just wiki'd him,is that what's it called ? and I see he has the same birth date as me,that's they only thing we have in common Quite an amazing family it would seem not just the obvious of Richard but according to wiki it says they adopted two Jewish refugee girls during WWII.

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Although I am a big fan of Stephen Fry,If I was given the choice to share time with him or David Attenborough I think I would have to choose David Attenborough,the man is amazing.I just wiki'd him,is that what's it called ? and I see he has the same birth date as me,that's they only thing we have in common Quite an amazing family it would seem not just the obvious of Richard but according to wiki it says they adopted two Jewish refugee girls during WWII.

One of the girls gave him a piece of amber with some tiny insects trapped inside, it did a lot to fuel his interest in the natural world.

60 years later, it was the subject of an Attenborough special, "The Amber time machine"

[mondatoo]

Although I am a big fan of Stephen Fry,If I was given the choice to share time with him or David Attenborough I think I would have to choose David Attenborough,the man is amazing.I just wiki'd him,is that what's it called ? and I see he has the same birth date as me,that's they only thing we have in common Quite an amazing family it would seem not just the obvious of Richard but according to wiki it says they adopted two Jewish refugee girls during WWII.

One of the girls gave him a piece of amber with some tiny insects trapped inside, it did a lot to fuel his interest in the natural world.

60 years later, it was the subject of an Attenborough special, "The Amber time machine"

Hope there is somewhere I can get hold of that.How intriguing is that,his parents selfless generosity leads to her having such an impact on him which leads to him having what you could only describe as a wonderful life,obviously that could've happened anyway but sounds better that way.

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[mondatoo]

Thanks Tom,will take a look it.

[TightEnd]

From elsewhere on the forum

Where is this?

[The-Crow]

Thats Platform 1 Tighty

[tikay]

From elsewhere on the forum

Where is this?

No idea Rich, but it's a fine photograph.

Clues seem to be......

No catenery or third rail, so a non-electrified line, which narrows it down considerably.

The limited brickwork & window heads visible suggests it's one of the very old "traditional" Stations.

Heaven only knows what that structural steel portal frame at the far end of the island platform represents.

The tactile paving & platform edge slabs suggests the Station is in current use.

That might be a GWR AWS "ramp" visible on the track, not sure.

The shiny rails support this, rails soon get a coating of rust if not regularly used.

The big clue must be that odd & ugly structural steel in the foreground. WTF?

Not a passenger in sight is odd, too.

Go on, tease me some more......

[TightEnd]

Bigger clue.....

[Shogun112]

From elsewhere on the forum

Where is this?

Looks like Chester to me..!!

It looks like a platform I was on recently, going from Chester to Nottingham through Crewe, so maybe it might have been crewe too..!  Brain fade

[tikay]

The old GWR used to run Paddington-Holyhead, perhaps suggesting somewhere in Wales?

What a hotch-potch of a Station, with that dreadful ironwork founded on "new" brickwork clashing with the beautiful original brickwork constructed in Class A Staffordshire Blue Engineering bricks.

Where would we be without Class A Staffordshire Blues, I often wonder. Quite the world's best brick, ever.

[TightEnd]

and the answer is on this magnificent geek-tastic thread, the current last post

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=48737.315

[tikay]

Yup, Shogun gets it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_railway_station

Some fine photos on that Wiki page.

Note the wooden owls to deter "feral pigeons".

Wiki also reports, presumably for those who need a little help in working out stuff, that "Chester General Railway Station was the site of the Chester General rail crash". Quite so.