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Title: Assigning feelings and thoughts to inanimate objects Post by: grahame on September 04, 2017, 20:36:27 Warning - pedantic thread
From this is Wiltshire.co.uk (http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/15514157.Swindon_Railway_Festival_to_evoke_sights_and_sounds_of_historic_railway_this_weekend/) Quote This year’s event will include tributes to the No. 6000 King George V train, which is celebrating its 90th birthday. Surely "who's 90th birthday is being celebrated"? But come to think of it ... is it a train and was it really born? Title: Re: Assigning feelings and thoughts to inanimate objects Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 04, 2017, 21:21:12 It's an engine, and it was built - but at what stage did it start life as such an entity? The laying down of the first axle, or the maiden run under its own steam? :-\
Title: Re: Assigning feelings and thoughts to inanimate objects Post by: Red Squirrel on September 04, 2017, 21:23:35 It's an engine, and it was built - but at what stage did it start life as such an entity? The laying down of the first axle, or the maiden run under its own steam? :-\ I can't cite sources, but I've read somewhere that a locomotive exists from the point where its frames are completed. Title: Re: Assigning feelings and thoughts to inanimate objects Post by: trainer on September 04, 2017, 22:28:35 My sofa laughed when it read the title of this thread.
Title: Re: Assigning feelings and thoughts to inanimate objects Post by: JayMac on September 04, 2017, 23:12:36 My first thought on seeing the thread title was Ralph Fiennes having telecommunications issues in the film In Bruges.
Those that know the film will know the scene and dialogue. Those that don't, sorry, but I don't think a link or embedded YouTube clip is appropriate on a public board. ;D :-X Title: Re: Assigning feelings and thoughts to inanimate objects Post by: broadgage on September 30, 2017, 15:06:20 It's an engine, and it was built - but at what stage did it start life as such an entity? The laying down of the first axle, or the maiden run under its own steam? :-\ I can't cite sources, but I've read somewhere that a locomotive exists from the point where its frames are completed. Indeed, they start life when the frames are completed, and the first run under their own steam is more like coming of age. DMUs are different, I think that they hatch from larvae or something. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |