>I think Les' post was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
>Regards,
>Chris Stratton
>Wollongong, NSW, Australia
>stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au
>> > And the 42-Class that was numbered from 4201 to 42220?
>> >
>> > And what about the 44-Class that went from 4401 to 44240?
>> >
>> > Did anyone see all of them - all 460 locos?
>> >
>> > Gee-whiz. (:-)))
>> >
>> > Les Brown.
Reminds me of the person who set out to train-spot all 13,000 members
of SZD's Eeu class 0-10-0 steam locos. They were being built, living
out their lives and being scrapped faster than he could count them.
Eventually, he gave up this hopeless task and went on the star in
Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
His name was Wowbagger the Infinitely
Prolonged. He was a man with a purpose. Not a very good purpose,
as he would have been the first to admit, but it was at least a
purpose and it did at least keep him on the move.
He would insult the Universe.
That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually,
personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided
to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.
When people protested to him, as they sometimes had done, that
the plan was not merely misguided but actually impossible because
of the number of people being born and dying all the time, he
would merely fix them with a steely look and say, ''A man can
dream can't he?''