Re: Re Gunzel ?

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)]

"Graeme Sproul" <sproul@dcsi.net.au> wrote in aus.rail:

>Seems to me back in the seventies that any male who chased trains,rode them
>to places like Balranald, Robinvale,Deniliquin,asked the driver if he could
>sleep on the DERM for the night ,had very smelly socks,bad breath,wore un
>fashionable pants and jackets,spoke very loudly to impress all in sundry of
>his knowledge i.e "There's the 11.30 Bendigo" and took heaps of photos and
>notes,and if I have not covered it all,Pissed rail staff and fellow
>enthusiasts off completely. then that's a Gunzel.
>Rail crews of that time would say,"Look out here comes one of those
>HYSTERICAL mob.
>
>Cause I was not like that and nobody dead or living person that I new was
>ever like that:)
>Graeme Sproul
>Ex train crew.
>
Ohh, my gosh. You have made me cringe. I think I must have done
everything you have mentioned above and hung around others of the same
ilk.

Obviously you never knew me in those days (:-).

Les Brown