Klarinet Archive - Posting 000536.txt from 2004/03

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@------.f9.co.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Trainspotter - just a smidge off topic guys!!!
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:56:37 -0500

God - I'd never thought of THAT interpretation of what I wrote......

I meant adult in the sense of intelligent.....

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Thiel, Mark [mailto:mark.thiel@------.com]
Sent: 09 March 2004 14:52
To: klarinet@------.org
Subject: [kl] Trainspotter - just a smidge off topic guys!!!

Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>A trainspotter spots trains - in other words it is a person who watches
>trains go by and collects the numbers of the locomotive. Normally
>schoolboys, but can be adults - by which time it becomes a little
scary!

>Not to be confused with someone who has an adult interest in railways -
>which is of course perfectly respectable.

And also not to be confused with any activities that occur in the movie
_Trainspotting_. "adult interest in railways" ?? Do we need to define
"adult"? Are we thinking the engineer or conductor or someone who's
fantasizing about the train rushing into a tunnel?

Mark Thiel

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