...and my favorite Star Wars character, Salacious Crumb.
"Yeah, I'm 50 years old...and your point is?" ;-)
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- Br'er Shaygetz
- Just a Believer who happens to model trains on a very tight budget, providing a place to showcase my own model work as well as the work of others, regardless of type. Considerations for posting are always welcome. Please check out the modeling links I've put together as well...
When I was a member of a club, I ran Thomas often at train shows and open houses, to the delight of children and their parents. I well remember the squeals of a little girl as she came into one of our open houses. When her eyes fell on Thomas across the layout, she called out, "Thomas, Thomas, look Mama...", as she ran across the room. Just as she got up to him, Thomas' eyes moved towards her and she squealed, "Mama, Mama, he looked at me, Thomas is real, he's real!!" Moments like that made him worth every penny and there were plenty of those moments to cherish.
Then there was a meeting. Apparently one of the members had objected to Thomas running through their expensive and hard built scenery and so a vote had to be brought up. Though they were never named, it was clear from the agitated stance who it was, a modeler whose work I liked and looked to for inspiration. Not wanting a war to break out over something I thought trivial, I offered not to run the locomotive any longer. But, the die was cast, the issue had to be properly resolved and, by an overwhelming majority, Thomas was voted to stay.
Sadly, the friendship I had with the modeler involved, did not survive the debate. They chose to carry the resentment on, even though I never ran Thomas again. When I heard news of his death a few months later, I was deeply saddened at the thought of carrying such a chip on one's shoulder into eternity over something so utterly pointless. Now more than ever I remember that this is just a hobby, a mindless platform that God has blessed me with and to use to reach others. One day it will all burn, a thousand years from now it will be a distant, fading memory of a temporal life, as we live forever in His presence---or apart from it. Never forget that.
The more His patience is abused, the sharper will be the wrath He inflicts. All the time men are abusing His patience, God is whetting His sword, and the longer it is whetting the sharper will be the edge...Presume not upon God’s patience. The exercise of it is not eternal; you are at present under His patience, yet while you are unconverted you are also under His anger: (Psa 7:11) “God is angry with the wicked every day.” You know not how soon His anger may turn His patience aside, and step before it. It may be His sword is drawn out of the scabbard, His arrows may be settled in His bow, and perhaps there is but a little time before you may feel the edge of the one or the point of the other, and then there will be no more time for patience in God to us, or petition from us to Him. If we die without repentance, He will have no longer mercy to pardon, nor patience to bear.---Stephen Charnock
Then there was a meeting. Apparently one of the members had objected to Thomas running through their expensive and hard built scenery and so a vote had to be brought up. Though they were never named, it was clear from the agitated stance who it was, a modeler whose work I liked and looked to for inspiration. Not wanting a war to break out over something I thought trivial, I offered not to run the locomotive any longer. But, the die was cast, the issue had to be properly resolved and, by an overwhelming majority, Thomas was voted to stay.
Sadly, the friendship I had with the modeler involved, did not survive the debate. They chose to carry the resentment on, even though I never ran Thomas again. When I heard news of his death a few months later, I was deeply saddened at the thought of carrying such a chip on one's shoulder into eternity over something so utterly pointless. Now more than ever I remember that this is just a hobby, a mindless platform that God has blessed me with and to use to reach others. One day it will all burn, a thousand years from now it will be a distant, fading memory of a temporal life, as we live forever in His presence---or apart from it. Never forget that.
The more His patience is abused, the sharper will be the wrath He inflicts. All the time men are abusing His patience, God is whetting His sword, and the longer it is whetting the sharper will be the edge...Presume not upon God’s patience. The exercise of it is not eternal; you are at present under His patience, yet while you are unconverted you are also under His anger: (Psa 7:11) “God is angry with the wicked every day.” You know not how soon His anger may turn His patience aside, and step before it. It may be His sword is drawn out of the scabbard, His arrows may be settled in His bow, and perhaps there is but a little time before you may feel the edge of the one or the point of the other, and then there will be no more time for patience in God to us, or petition from us to Him. If we die without repentance, He will have no longer mercy to pardon, nor patience to bear.---Stephen Charnock
5 comments:
I must admit I'm surprised about this character as your favourite... But I feel a disturbance in the Force thinking at Salacious Crumb driving that tractor on the street. :D
Actually I don't really know who's mine - I'm only 35 yo, maybe this is the reason. Yet there's 22 years from my first movie of the series - it was The Empire Strikes Back and I was amazed (at the time, the national television - the only channel in the country - had only 2 hours in the air, except saturday and sunday, but the "strongest" "capitalist film" they gave was some western of John Wayne or a music-hall of the great Astaire.)
Yes, he had a short life in the series...but that demented laugh of his just made my day.
I bet that John Wayne dubbed over in your native Romanian would be quite a sight to us Americans...
"Ceea ce spun să luăm de cavalerie noastre şi du-te de salvare le pelerini de cele bandiţi urât.?"
No sir, one of the good habits of that commy television channel (and nowadays of all Romanian TV stations) is to give the films subtitled, not dubbed. So we don't have to hear a rough cavalry man with a soprano's voice or other monstrosity like that.
Well, speaking about western movies... there's a few Romanian films of the genre: let me show you a comic sequence from "The gold, the Prophet and the Transylvanians" - two emigrants, big brother and the younger, a passenger railcar and some troubles with the English dictionary. Also a short view of an unknown train (Far West look, though) and a viaduct. The big brother first words are very funny in that context of a gentleman offering them cigars: "Lad, I didn't get you over the seas to learn you to smoke!"
Ooops... i'm not sure if I put the link there on previous comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYAn5IcmGU
Too cool...
The train reminds me of the makeovers they would do to Italian trains in Sergio Leone Westerns to make them look more American.
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