lapal_fan Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 10 minutes ago, Keyblade said: So thaaaat's why Thomas was called an engine and not a train. I always wondered why the show wasn't called Thomas the 1/4 of a Train Now you need to ponder why he was called a "Tank" engine, and not just an engine. Answers on a post card. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2016 2 minutes ago, limpid said: The only parties I go to when we talk about trains are for 4 year olds. How fun I am at them is usually based on what present I brought Are you invited to these parties or do you just turn up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 7 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: Now you need to ponder why he was called a "Tank" engine, and not just an engine. Answers on a post card. He was a genocidal armored vehicle in a past life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted February 26, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2016 I've got a funny story about Thomas the Tank Engine. Well, it was funny at the time: At my cousin's wedding, some of the wedding favours were table games. Charades being the main one on our table. I got "Thomas the Tank Engine" and had to do a charade. When it came to the word "Tank", the only thing I could think of doing was "Sounds like Wank", so did the world renowned hand gesture for wanking. It was funny, people got the charade, happy days. The only member of my family who witnessed this was my Aunt (mother of the groom). That's important. The next day we were at said Aunt's house having dinner. Afterwards we started playing some table games and, again, one of them was charades. At this point my aunt let out a chuckle, and when quizzed on why she was laughing, declared "Ben, I just can't stop thinking about you wanking last night!!" Much horror and confusion ensued, followed by desperate explanations by my aunt and myself. And that's how I got the name Morpheus. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I've got a funny story about Thomas the Tank Engine. Well, it was funny at the time: At my cousin's wedding, some of the wedding favours were table games. Charades being the main one on our table. I got "Thomas the Tank Engine" and had to do a charade. When it came to the word "Tank", the only thing I could think of doing was "Sounds like Wank", so did the world renowned hand gesture for wanking. It was funny, people got the charade, happy days. The only member of my family who witnessed this was my Aunt (mother of the groom). That's important. The next day we were at said Aunt's house having dinner. Afterwards we started playing some table games and, again, one of them was charades. At this point my aunt let out a chuckle, and when quizzed on why she was laughing, declared "Ben, I just can't stop thinking about you wanking last night!!" Much horror and confusion ensued, followed by desperate explanations by my aunt and myself. And that's how I got the name Morpheus. And were you invited to these events or did you just turn up? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) That Morpheus line was a nice touch Edited February 26, 2016 by Keyblade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Was he banded or just leave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2016 3 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: And were you invited to these events or did you just turn up? I was invited. It was my cousin's wedding. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted February 26, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2016 Best game of charades I ever saw was one where a woman had to do "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". We all guessed it straight away, but pretended we hadn't, just to watch her increasingly frantic and utterly obscene miming. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted February 26, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2016 On the charades theme, I stayed up until 2:00am during the floods to see how the sign language person doing the news round up did Cockermouth. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 as a 4 or 5 year old, I correctly guessed the book Sin City.. in a game of charades. About 11 people were absolutely baffled as to how I got it. I still don't know to be honest, I think the clue "book" and the fact mom and dad had a copy of it in a cabinet in our old houses' dining room (among lots of other books) made it a lucky guess. But I'll always remember the "how the **** did you get that" looks I got from 11 adults. I'd never read it or picked it up, I just remember looking at the spine of the book, which was all black with yellow writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: At this point my aunt let out a chuckle, and when quizzed on why she was laughing, declared "Ben, I just can't stop thinking about you wanking last night!!" Why would she call you Ben, when your name is Steve? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 It was from the ,'mildlyinteresting' subreddit. The picture of a train that is. I nearly posted another that was a picture of a sign and a carpark. The sign read, 'parking here is fine', although from the context you could see that it was meant to say parking here is fined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinityRoadSteps Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 The lack of knowledge about railway vehicles on this forum is nothing short of staggering 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I recall learning Whyte Notation (not a trainspotter, just a man that appreciates engineering), it gave me immense joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I just learnt about the Engines that Thomas was based on.. Pretty interesting that they were extremely limited, and from 1967 were completely scrapped. Poor Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyblade Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 My favorite Thomas related thing 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ingram85 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 (edited) *Looks for ages, sees nothing, scrolls up and see's it's a useless funny pic post, says "literally" to myself, scrolls on* Edited February 27, 2016 by Ingram85 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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