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Hitler's Super Gauge Train
Posted on 03/08/2014 9:28:41 AM PST by varmintman
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To: varmintman
I was watching a recent episode of the TOP GEAR TV series (the BBC version) and the hosts were driving through the Ukraine. They were making fun of how boring the terrain is. I spent my boyhood Summers on my Aunt and Uncle’s wheat farm. I watched that show and thought, “Wow! You could really grow some grain on that land!” To me, it looked like it could really be a breadbasket. Oil is important and so are warm-water ports, but people have to eat.
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:51:20 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:51:24 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Joe 6-pack; null and void
"Yes. Mussolini really did make the trains run on thyme..." What a sage observation...:-) Way to spice up the conversation.
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:52:12 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: null and void
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:52:42 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Lazamataz
Are we being a pain in your anise? If we don’t stop, are you going to pepper us with your mace?
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:53:17 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack; null and void
"Thyme"
You bad. :-P
what no rosemarie?
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:55:48 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: varmintman
What about NBC's Supertrain?
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:56:04 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:56:05 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: ifinnegan
The idea of ANYBODY wanting any sort of a global monopoly on food makes me nervous. In fact pretty much the only person I could feel halfway good about having such a monopoly would be Jesus and he hasn’t come back yet...
To: Lazamataz
His rocket program went on to great success.
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:58:42 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Yo-Yo
What’s that one about (hadn’t heard of it)?
To: Yo-Yo
Ah, “Supertrain”! I remember that one from my childhood.
It got the axe pretty quickly, as I recall. And it was pretty expensive to produce as well, if my memory serves correct.
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posted on
03/08/2014 9:59:16 AM PST
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
03/08/2014 10:02:22 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Lazamataz
"I give up." I agree...spice puns are the cause of far too much saffron in this world. We need to make a dill to put an end to them.
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posted on
03/08/2014 10:04:52 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Lazamataz
No, because he was a socialist. What private businesses were allowed to build any autobahns of their own volition? Even before Adolf came on the scene, all the railroads in Germany were nationalized into one entity.
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posted on
03/08/2014 10:07:20 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: ifinnegan
Obama’s fond of Monsanto, for the record, even signing legislation on their behalf. Crony corporatism is kinda antithetical to capitalism.
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posted on
03/08/2014 10:09:16 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: varmintman
They'd need more than granite ballast for this monster.
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posted on
03/08/2014 10:09:54 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Lazamataz
If Hitler wasnt such a d**k, he might have done some real good. Takes one to build a railroad like that. Today's Republicans are the exact opposite, which is why took 23 years to rebuild the Bay Bridge, 13-and-counting to replace the World Trade Center, and the Keystone Pipeline is receding far into the future.
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posted on
03/08/2014 10:10:13 AM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
(CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
To: Yo-Yo
*snickering* Less we forget..
Enjoying a brief six month run on NBC-TV, "Supertrain" has been noted as one of television's biggest disasters of all-time.
"Supertrain" was reportedly rushed into production, cost the network a fortune, and failed miserably in the ratings.
and their abysmal programming (syfy, msnbc..etc..etc),
they still haven't learnt a thing.
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posted on
03/08/2014 10:10:17 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: Lazamataz
Odd. The first character is not the Russian h sound (they actually dont QUITE have an h, more like the Greek semi-vocalized h.) I wonder how it got changed in translation. I think that first letter is g.
That's because it's a Ukrainian г, not a Russian one. From Wikipedia:
The letter 〈г〉 represents voiced glottal fricative /ɦ/, often transliterated as Latin h. It is the voiced equivalent of English /h/. Russian speakers from Ukraine often use the soft Ukrainian /ɦ/ in place of Russian /ɡ/, which comes from northern dialects of Old East Slavic. The Ukrainian alphabet has the additional letter 〈ґ〉 for /ɡ/, which appears in a few native words such as ґринджоли gryndoly 'sleigh' and ґудзик gudzyk 'button'. However, /ɡ/ appears almost exclusively in loan words, and is usually simply written 〈г〉. For example, loanwords from English on public signs usually use 〈г〉 for both English g and h.
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