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Model Forum / General / Railroads / November 2009It's OT after all - Warren Buffet never got a train set for Christmas
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train set as a kid." - WARREN BUFFETT, joking about his decision to buy a railroad, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/business/04deal.html?th&emc=th cheers, wolf k. Isn't this just the realization of one of Model Railroader's April Fool's stories from a few years ago - the building of a 1:1 scale model of a railroad - the Wisconsin Central, IIRC? "This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train set as a kid." - WARREN BUFFETT, joking about his decision to buy a railroad, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/business/04deal.html?th&emc=th cheers, wolf k. >"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train set as a >kid." [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >cheers, wolf k. Warren Buffet to his son: "What do you want for your birthday this year" "A computer" So he buys him IBM. Next year he asks him aagain. "A train set" So he buys him BNSF. Next year he asks hin again. "A cowboy outfit" So he buys him Microsoft. >> "This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train set as a >> kid." [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > So he buys him Microsoft. ROTFL wolf k. On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:45 -0500, Wolf K <wekirch@sympatico.ca> wrote: >"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train set as a >kid." [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >cheers, wolf k. Warren Buffet to his son: "What do you want for your birthday this year" "A computer" So he buys him IBM. Next year he asks him aagain. "A train set" So he buys him BNSF. Next year he asks hin again. "A cowboy outfit" So he buys him Microsoft. ~~~~~~~ The usual last line to that sequence is "A Mickey Mouse outfit." So he buys him (fill in the blank) BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe (not mine, from a friend in another group) : BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe Hmmmm. Broken Normal, Seldom Fixed? Bruce  Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes >: BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe >: > Hmmmm. Broken Normal, Seldom Fixed? Whatever - definitely better than Uncle Pervert. SignatureSteve No, "Touched by an Uncle" is NOT a show about railroads. On 11/5/2009 12:19 AM Steve Caple spake thus: >>> BNSF = Buffet's New Santa Fe >> >> Hmmmm. Broken Normal, Seldom Fixed? > > Whatever - definitely better than Uncle Pervert. Ha; was walking the tracks through Berkeley the other day and saw someone had scrawled "f.ck Union Pathetic" on a sign. Thought you'd like that. SignatureWho needs a junta or a dictatorship when you have a Congress blowing Wall Street, using the media as a condom? - harvested from Usenet > On 11/5/2009 12:19 AM Steve Caple spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > someone had scrawled "f.ck Union Pathetic" on a sign. Thought you'd like > that. Ya think they'd sue if I made a stuffed octopus with a UP shield on his "chest"? SignatureSteve > Ya think they'd sue if I made a stuffed octopus with a UP shield on his > "chest"? Oh, probably not, seeing that it's already been done many times before... http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/bancroftiana/121/images/wasp2.jpg http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/envimages/Standard.oil.Octopus.7.18.1880.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3592/3459839034_5344e218ab.jpg http://octoprop.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/corporate-greed_27-06-1882.jpg >> Ya think they'd sue if I made a stuffed octopus with a UP shield on his >> "chest"? [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > http://octoprop.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/corporate-greed_27-06-1882.jpg Well, yes, but: those aren't Uncle Pervert's railroad - although Uncle Pervo has now gobbled up Southern Pacific, the octpus of frank Norris' novel. SignatureSteve > >> Ya think they'd sue if I made a stuffed octopus with a UP shield on his > >> "chest"? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Pervo has now gobbled up Southern Pacific, the octpus of frank Norris' > novel. So? Under our current legal system, any of your neighbors can sue you at any moment for any imagined slight, and tales of such lawsuits are rife. http://www.thevoiceofreason.com/RealFunnyNews/2007/7-SillyLawsuits.htm Onion Pacific is no different in that regard than any other legal entity, but the odds of them filing suit for your having made one "UP octopus" are nil. (Were you to go into business selling them for a living it would no doubt be a different story.) Q: What's the difference between Union Pacific and an onion? A: Nobody would cry if you chopped up Union Pacific. ~Pete |
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