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Analoguesat · 23-07-09, 10:09 PM

Shamelessly nicked off the sats forum, but worth repeating here for your benefit

Gordon Brown decided to throw the towel in and resign. His cabinet colleagues decided as a gesture to name a railway locomotive after him.

A civil servant was despatched from Whitehall to the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, to investigate the possibilities.

"We have a number of locomotives at the NRM without names," an NRM consultant told the civil servant, "But they’re mostly freight locomotives."

"Oh dear, not very fitting for a former prime minister, How about that big green one, over there?" the official said, pointing to no.4472.

"That´s already got a name" said the consultant. "It´s called `Flying Scotsman´."

"Oh, couldn't it be renamed?" asked the civil servant. "This is a national museum after all, funded by the taxpayer."

"I suppose it could be considered," said the NRM consultant. "After all, the LNER renamed a number of their locomotives after directors of the company and even renamed one of them Dwight D Eisenhower."

"Settled then. Let´s look at renaming 4472. We can´t spend too much though, given the recession."

Well, said the consultant, "We could always just paint out the `F´"

DAVEYEFF · 24-07-09, 08:53 PM

my thoughts exactly.....gudn

skyman114 · 24-07-09, 11:41 PM

and add "thieving" in front of it

23-07-09, 10:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
Analoguesat manic midlander retired mod Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Scottish Borders Posts: 11,668 Thanks: 21 Thanked 1,339 Times in 990 Posts	Gordon Brown Shamelessly nicked off the sats forum, but worth repeating here for your benefit Gordon Brown decided to throw the towel in and resign. His cabinet colleagues decided as a gesture to name a railway locomotive after him. A civil servant was despatched from Whitehall to the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, to investigate the possibilities. "We have a number of locomotives at the NRM without names," an NRM consultant told the civil servant, "But they’re mostly freight locomotives." "Oh dear, not very fitting for a former prime minister, How about that big green one, over there?" the official said, pointing to no.4472. "That´s already got a name" said the consultant. "It´s called `Flying Scotsman´." "Oh, couldn't it be renamed?" asked the civil servant. "This is a national museum after all, funded by the taxpayer." "I suppose it could be considered," said the NRM consultant. "After all, the LNER renamed a number of their locomotives after directors of the company and even renamed one of them Dwight D Eisenhower." "Settled then. Let´s look at renaming 4472. We can´t spend too much though, given the recession." Well, said the consultant, "We could always just paint out the `F´" __________________ Basic forum rules for both satellite & cable: no keys no patches no offering or asking for card shares Anyone pm'ing me for details of card sharing or anything to do with hacking cable will be banned immediately Analogue forever!!

24-07-09, 08:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
DAVEYEFF Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 475 Thanks: 53 Thanked 108 Times in 74 Posts	Re: Gordon Brown my thoughts exactly.....gudn __________________ daveyeff

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