John Collins

[justsomeone]

Beapilot, You have to take LIB off your ignore list. He's pretty funny!!!!

[justsomeone]

Ralph, Sorry to hear you only have halfer-shaft.

Mine is a full shaft, but no wickerbill since I was very young.

If your halfer-shafts don't work on this attempt, try the little blue pill.

;) ;) ;)

[John Collins]

How strange you are beapilot - I deliberately wrote you an agreeable response to your suggestion that young fresh minds might bring new ideas to an old and dusty subject and how do you respond?

"I did not realize how immature you are John." Pot calling the kettle black?

Nuff said!

JC

[LustInBlack]

Beapilot, You have to take LIB off your ignore list. He's pretty funny!!!!

Well I actually have a theory!

He has half a brain and in the empty side of his head there is a giant dice that rolls and stops on command..

When he actually process an idea his half-brain computes, and then, he throws the internal dice until it stops and then his half-brain takes a decision according to the dice value ..

This mechanism is actually improved by the iPhone solved button..

I actually can prove it, look at his posts, it's following a perfect random symmetry!

This guy head should be opened up, sliced up and studied in schools..

[rlortie]

Beapilot, You have to take LIB off your ignore list. He's pretty funny!!!!

I must admit that I did take beapilot off my ignore list. I too find it as refreshing as the Sunday paper funnies or any comedy sitcom on TV.

He often brings life to ignored threads and one can only wonder what will he post next?

As for my 'wickerbills', so far I have received two private posts asking; Whats a wickerbill? Funny, I guess everyone knows what a halfershaft is.

Gawsh! any old railroad steam engine mechanic could tell you all about it. Just goes to prove that the older generations do indeed neglect to pass things along to the younger generations. I would say another prime example was an elder by the name of Johan Elias Bessler, but then I guess he did have the thought of doing so after he got his asking price.

Did you know that a steam locomotives drive wheels do not turn! The loco pulls and pushes itself over the top of the wheels. The wheels do not turn other wise the loco would sit on the track with the wheels spinning. Everything the huff-n-puffer could produce would go up in smoke! Now a smoke jack in the stack may have been useful but stopping to check the wellness of the pig was not considered cost effective.

Now old man Bessler was no dummy, he figured out the mechanics of a steam engine before steam was invented.

There are clues here for beapilot to show his discerning aptitude by figuring out what I am talking about.

Ralph

[beapilot]

That is a bad suggestion. A person who continues to be young continues to be creative yet the elder by age and not by the heart and should treat everyone the same regardless.
Why is that? Most inventors have a childlike personality who never grow up from the inside. It works like a child thinks as if they can place two blocks in a box, close it up, shake it, then outcomes three. Yes, they see the imaginary third one. That imaginary third one is the invention.
Most people who grow up lose that thinking cap into finding more than 2 blocks and are blocked to only see two, the physical blocks.

I hope this explains.

beapilot - There is childlike and childish. I must be showing my age, but I can't remember being as young as you are. Regardless, may I suggest you grow up or grow old.

[beapilot]

Ralph,

I think it is unfair to the community that you are sharing something for me to figure out and not the community too. What you wrote is confusing to me because I am not experienced with loco trains. But, what you said might get me to thinking into something else than your are saying.

[daxwc]

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.

George Washington Carver

[Jim Williams]

beapilot - Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. Children aren't childlike, they're just children. It takes an adult to be defined as childlike. To me there are two kinds of adults; ones that act their age, mature, "grow up". These are the ones that can become childlike. Then there are ones that never grow up, just age instead and digress into childishness. These are the ones that "grow old". Grow up and have the option of being childlike; Albert Einstein, Leonald Bernstein, John Collins come to mind. Or grow old and have no option other than to degenerate into childishness; you for example.

All I'm suggesting, following some of your posts, is to grow up. I note with interest you also seem to be making that attempt.

[Michael]

Old age is inevatble. But immaturity can last a lifetime. I once saw this on the back of a bumper sticker. The guy in the cab of the truck was dancing around. I laughed MAO.
Jim I agree with your thoughts on two kinds of aging. But I would also add that it shows up in the body as well.

[beapilot]

beapilot - Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. Children aren't childlike, they're just children. It takes an adult to be defined as childlike. To me there are two kinds of adults; ones that act their age, mature, "grow up". These are the ones that can become childlike. Then there are ones that never grow up, just age instead and digress into childishness. These are the ones that "grow old". Grow up and have the option of being childlike; Albert Einstein, Leonald Bernstein, John Collins come to mind. Or grow old and have no option other than to degenerate into childishness; you for example.

All I'm suggesting, following some of your posts, is to grow up. I note with interest you also seem to be making that attempt.

Sorry Jim,

Your example for childishness is a bad example because it is wrong. You might want to pick another example. You suggest me to grow up. You do not know the true self of me in the real world (online is not the real world) but I can assure you I am childlike. Someone like you can be titled as childishness because of the impaired judgment. Maybe you should read all the posts through the entire thread and compare to the people who spoke to me with exclamation marks (the more marks beside one another shows the greater childishness in oneself), abbreviated and slang words, and caps. Do not find a tiny example that I try to defend myself but compare to the overall of what I post.

Also, you said you notice I am making an attempt. I realized that the people I was talking to were outside the ethical norms at their age and decided to move on. Since the majority of the people on here that are very active are pretty much not mature for their age. That means I gave up defending myself so much because there is very tiny amount of people in here who are mature both ways. That said, many immature fighting my defensive post with a very tiny amount of mature people supporting me, I lose greatly. In the other hand, if the majority of people were mature, then I would of won my defensive posts. I hope you understand now.

Joshua

[LustInBlack]

Yaaaawwwnishlike !

[FunWithGravity2]

Hello All,

I would like to return to subject and deviate a slight bit, i was thinking of another post but since this post deals with progress i find it as good a place as any to ask the question.


Whats in store for 2nd place????

Several of us have ideas currently in the works that we all think will be the one this time, we all must have some thoughts that the others must also be close to ours since ours must be the only real idea workable. And this is just our small English speaking and ESL group. Never mind the others in non english countries or without internet at all. Never mind the possibility that their may even be some "scientists" in some small room somewhere with an actual budget. BUT only one can be first. What do the rest of us second placers do afterwards.

What if the first place person gets it days before you and it is the exact same principle. We all dream about "what would you do if" and have many threads to prove it. But IF NOT what then???

Do we have any viable options? if we are not the one. Or are we all just relegated to 2nd place without so much as recognition from our spouse that we were a day late and millions of dollars short.


Dave

[scott]

LiB/Frederic, since the issue of childishness has come up, can you please stop. You are the yang to beapilot's yin. Please put him on your ignore list, or if that is impossible, at least stop responding to his every post with a childish provocation.
Thanks,
Scott

[ovyyus]

Scott, what else is this thread good for if not for a laugh?