I was referring to the oleagenous Gritpype-Thynne getting the “dropsy” rather than Neddy, who is obviously a scandal free tram melter-downer par excellence, the sort of man who made British industry what it is today.
It’s a NSW thing (cue Jeff McCloy, the ”politician’s ATM”) and I’m sure it doesn’t happen in a nice place like SA.
Tony (owner of two Triumph motorcycles, superb products of British engineering and craftsmanship)
> On 28 Nov 2021, at 2:48 pm, Mark Skinner emessk@...> wrote:
>
> Prescient?
>
> These days we can only dream of having people as competent as Neddy S in charge.
>
> I say that without political bias in SA. I emailed one party about their tram policy...no reply. The other replied with almost no information. Meh.
>
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2021, 11:11 am Tony Galloway, arg@... mailto:arg@aapt.net.au> wrote:
> Did you note the contemporary Sydney reference (they were very prescient) :
>
> “You can’t build the flats on the Kingsway Subway!”
>
> "Can’t build!!??"
>
> “But I’ve already had the dropsy from-m-m-m, err, why not?”
>
> Some things never change…
>
> Tony
>
>> On 28 Nov 2021, at 8:42 am, Mark Skinner emessk@... mailto:emessk@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I prefer this as being more relevant to Trams Down Under.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/zW8NNSqBjFU https://youtu.be/zW8NNSqBjFU
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>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, 9:56 pm Tony Galloway, arg@... mailto:arg@aapt.net.au> wrote:
>> It’s like that Goon Show trope where a character like Neddy Seagoon says, “the gang of navvies was hard at work”.
>>
>> Followed by silence, then a single “tink”.
>>
>> Then more silence before another character speaks.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>> On 27 Nov 2021, at 7:28 pm, 'bblunt3473@yahoo.com mailto:bblunt3473@yahoo.com' via TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@... mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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>>> The George St line is closed for "essential maintenance" this weekend. So I decided to take a walk from CQ up to Central to see what they were doing.
>>>
>>> Three guys were at the terminus doing some adjustments to the points.
>>>
>>> South of Town Hall, workmen were busy with the new paving works, and installing even more ugly poles at the intersections; these seem to be for new pedestrian lights (why do they need more lights when pedestrians ignore them anyway?).
>>>
>>> At Hay St, a group was engaged with welding at the H crossing.
>>>
>>> As compensation for the inconvenience, the Opal readers were switched off along both lines.
>>>
>>> Brian, on the L1.5 today.
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