Re: [VIC] Reggie and Motormouth (was: a good weekend for gunzelling in Vic (long))

["Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au>]

Lineman <grime@dcsi.net.au> wrote in message news:...
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> Stuart Thyer <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au> wrote in message
> 80sj3p$q9g$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au">news:80sj3p$q9g$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au...
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> > In article <383121D5.6DF1DA8D@harnessnet.com.au>, Craig Haber
> > <albatross@harnessnet.com.au> wrote:
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> > >John Dennis wrote:
> > >
> > >> Reggie is not the name he used when he stood for the presidency of
the
> > >> ARE.  'Tis a name given him by other gunzels, I assume.
> > >
> > >Back at Maldon in July, some other guys were calling him Ralph.  He
also
> > >answers to Reggie, as in "Reggie, get out of my shot!!!"
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> > AFAIK, his name is Reginald Ralph Longthorp, or it could be that this
name
> > too is a long held false belief, it's all I've known him as for 10
years,
> > but then I've never actually asked him what his name is!
> >
> > Stuart Thyer
> > Photographer
> > University of Melbourne
> If he wears things like orange shirts and light brown jackets,sometimes
has
> a  beard of sorts,lives in a bungalow out the back of a house,which must
be
> full of photos or slides,then I would know him as Ralphie.
> Last time I saw him he was taking photos of the Rclass record number of
> passengers train at Warragul.
> On the Up he had set himself up at the up end annet locked points at
> Warragul to get "that shot"
> Just as the train arrived half of Warragul spilled out of the Club Hotel
Vic
> Bits in hand and stormed the track oblivious to Ralpie and his needs..
> Ralphie started to abuse all in sundry to get out of his shot but to no
> avail,he swore, he cursed and foamed in a peculiar manner and every one
> laughed.
> Some one turned round and asked him who died and made him C.E.O. of the
> railway(well it was me actually)and at last he shut up.
> He is harmless,and can be beaten,except most people on fan trips are too
> courteous and overly pleasant to try it.
> Get in to the compartment and tell him straight out that you don't wish to
> know about the Bendigo pass or any thing else that he might like to
> offer,and that if he doesn't like it,then F#$$ off and complain to the
> Organizer. He wont but you will have won round one.
> Good Luck
> Lineman
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