Re: Derivation of Gunzel

[Erich S Houchens <eshouchens@home.com>]

WBrueckman wrote:

> Thanks for posting the information on the derivation of the gunzel term.  When
> I was in Australia last October for the Paralympics, I heard the term for the
> first time and had a hard time figuring out what it meant.
>
> We have the same sort of idiots here in the U.S.  No special term for them
> except to lump the idiots in with all railfans.  I've seen idiots climb to the
> top of boxcars to get pictures not knowing that they are close to the 10,000
> volt overhead catenary wire.  And I've seen idiots standing with their feet in
> the middle of remote-controlled power switches not knowing their foot could be
> crushed by a flick of a switch of a dispatcher 700 miles away.

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> Bill Brueckmann
> Summerfield, North Carolina

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