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->  RH> I use the sticky stuff on my finger nails.  Our weather here causes
->  RH> them to crack. since this often happens below the skin line, I've
->  RH> learned to glue them together.  
-> 
-> As I get older, I find that my fingernails crack more easily, so I
-> have to trim them closer.   My late wife had longish fingernails, but
-> she strengthened them by stabbing them into cloves of raw garlic.  The
-> garlic juice seemed to work effectively.
->  
It's also good for keeping vampires away from your manicure.

->  ->  RH> Cool.  Sounds like home to me.  I think the same bunch of
blokes
->  RH> used
->  ->  RH> to repair streetcars at a museum near here.
->  -> A good occupation; it keeps them off the streets.
->  RH> Or did until they all died of old age.
-> 
-> Were there not more pensioners coming in to carry on the good work?
-> 
Some.  These days the new pensioners are younger than you are.
 
->  -> one built in a country town near Adelaide, which remained in service
->  -> from 1907 to 1970, covering over 1,300,000 miles.
->  RH> Sounds like a good time, if you're a rail nut. 
-> 
-> I like steam stuff, but not to the extent of some of my friends, who
-> devote their entire retirement to worshipping at the firebox door.

My dad might have done that if he could have gotten away with it.

-> Apart from the two main museums in South Australia and the Broken Hill
-> one, I have also visited rail museums in Galveston Texas, Warsaw
-> Poland and Arcade NY.

Haven't hit the Pennsylvania State RR Museum or Steamtown (Strasburg and
Scranton, PA, respectively)?
  
->  -> train, killing 4 people and wounding 7 until the train driver
shunted
->  -> back out of range.   The police and a group of the Volunteer Rifles
->  -> pursued the assailants to a nearby hill, where (as the local paper
->  -> reported) the Turks "met their just desserts".
-> 
->  RH> Oh dear.  Not the sharpest scoops in the drawer, were they?  
-> 
-> An earlier variety of suicide bombers.  They only had single shot
-> rifles; they would have welcomed modern AK-47s.

A jerry can of petrol would have worked better.
 
-> Near the site of their last stand, a replica ice cream cart has been
-> built.  It has the shafts mounted unusually high, so would have been
-> more suited to being pulled by a camel than a horse.  The main streets
-> in Broken Hill are very wide, which I was told was to make space for
-> two camel teams of up to 20 beasts each to pass.  Until the railway
-> was built, camels were the main means of transporting goods to that
-> inland town.

These days they eat the camels?
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