First, let it be understood that I have no pecuniary interest whatever in the sale of this product, but in the sixty years that I have been following railroad industry affairs, first as a railfan and later what I guess could be called an "industry observer" - including eleven years within such, I have never seen a product offered that could prove as invaluable as this for anyone desiring a meaningful chronicle on how the industry has evolved during the past seventy years.
Since I already have a complete TRAINS collection V-I,#1 onward, I will likely pass, but if Kalmbach were to offer a keyword search feature updated monthly and available on-line, I'd subscribe in a heartbeat.
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Doesn't look like spam to me! I think that's a pretty neat idea to put something like this on a DVD. Back when I was in high school (graduated 1984), thoughts of something like this were only in SciFi movies. Technology really is amazing me more and more every day.
BTW, speaking of spam......Anybody here ever had spam sandwiches the way they make them in Hawaii? They're actually very tasty!
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GBN, being a grumpy old guy, I much prefer my musty old hard copies, but that's still a great idea. While I do see they have some search capability, it would be good, as you suggest, to have a search on a word or phrase. 'Pan American' or 'DPM' come to mind.
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I don't know which is more remarkable..... seeing this become available OR the realization that by the end of this year I will have been a Trains subscriber for 39 of those 70 years.
And yes, I have every issue dating back to January 1972.
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The Hormel Foods Corporation product named stands for SPiced hAM. My railroad handled enough of it over the years from Austin MN as well as five other on-line locations.
Now, what acronym, if any, does such stand for in internetese?
Oh and this palate that was, shall we say, 'frozen' in Don Draper's era, likes SPAM. Fried with Pineapple was my best. Fortunately Comcast and Symantec's Norton security system keeps the other varietal away.
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Gil, it's not an acronym for anything when it describes the unsolicited "garbage" e-mails and solicitations one gets via the internet.
I always assumed that the term came from the old Monty Python classic sketch linked to above by yukon11.
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I always assumed that the term came from the old Monty Python classic sketch linked to above by yukon11
That's correct. On computers, this carried over into abusive bulletin board users scrolling the word "Spam" (or using giant ASCII graphics of said word) or quotes from the Monty Python sketch in question in order to move the text of others off the screen. The word is not an acronym or portmanteau for anything, but rather a nickname.
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Since I am now in receipt of a note from the Moderatrix that this topic does not represent SPAM, I have retitled it.
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I think it's time for a trip to Hawai'i. I really enjoy breakfast at McDonald's -- Guava juice, fresh pineapple and the "Big Breakfast" with eggs, rice and BOTH Spam and Portuguese Sausage!!
Yum!!
Frank in HOT (at least by our standards) SBA
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