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Talking trains. The great Canadian national legend. And cold. The great Canadian identity definer.

Got stuck in a snowstorm just before getting into the station at London Ont many years ago. Apparently the train ahead froze to the tracks while boarding. But nobody told us what was happening. So after a half hour or so we all just started jumping off the train into four feet of snow and slogging our way to a street. Scenes like that always remind me of the closing bit of Fahrenheit 451, with all the refugees walking through the snow muttering their books to themselves ...

The roof should be okay. It's the ceiling in the back room, where the roof isn't okay and the plexi-y roof over the deck that's on the roof got half destroyed in wind last year, and melting snow and rain has been leaking in through the drywall in buckets, that could be problematic.

And yes indeed, I could have zipped down to the station to embrace and then wave fond farewell. ;)

I felt an earthquake here once. For the last several years, it's been piledrivers, ripping into bedrock for new water mains, and a housing project in my back yard ...

QCI is Queen Charlotte Islands for you foreigners. I have no idea where they are, really. I'm pretty much as close to the Hebrides as I am to the Queen Charlottes.

deleted 'cause I put it in the wrong thread

QCI .................. off the northern coast of British Columbia.


Now more correctly, Haida Gwaia



What a pity I didn't know the train stopped near you! We'd have had 2 chances to meet. Bet it would have been the middle of the night though!


xxx

This needs a nudge....

n for Heather

Time for a bump.

Henceforth, this is my reply to all surname-less posts:

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Please read:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=991602

posts at bottom of first page re missing surnames.

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And gosh darn it I am tired of snooty responses from people who are asked very simply and straightforwardly to provide the missing info.

And do not send the missing info to me by private message! I don't want it! I'm just TRYING TO BE HELPFUL!!!

Now I have a request for OLD posters.

When copying and pasting stuff from Ancestry or the IGI, a whole lot of extraneous stuff gets dragged along, like:

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Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability:

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and in the IGI, the unused lines for births, marriages, burials, etc.

It takes about two seconds to block and delete that stuff after pasting it into a post, and also eliminate the multiple line returns that seem to come along with copies from some sources -- big white spaces where little or no space is needed.

It makes it a whole lot easier to follow the info in a post if all that stuff isn't there. In fact I saw a poster once asking what "view record" or some such meant.

So I will just humbly request that we take the bit of time to wipe the bumph out of our posts, for the beneift of newbies trying to absorb it.

I have a new trick.

In the surname filter box on the left of the main TTF board page, type

Posting Tips

Ta da. Now we can suggest that the newbs do that and pick up the tips we'd like to pass on, without constantly having to make new threads and bump them around.

n