Mike Charlton 500 mph motorcycle next year?

[Seldom Seen Slim]

It's a slow day at Star Industries, Dan, so I took a few minutes and looked up the word "anoraks".  First of all -- I guess the real meaning of the word isn't a meaning -- it's a brand of jacket/coat/shirt/something.  But the term has come to mean (you ready for this?):

"The nearest equivalent non-British slang term might be "nerd". An anorak is literally a hooded waterproof coat, and the slang term was originally applied to trainspotters - people whose hobby is hanging around railway stations, monitoring the arrivals/departures of various trains and writing down their serial numbers in little notebooks. I swear there are such people, and their hobby requires them to wear suitably draught-proof clothing. By extension it has become applied to anyone with an obsessive interest in a subject that is too technical or boring for anyone else to know much about. By the way, the title of the film Trainspotters is a reference to the interest the characters had in the traffic up and down the lines in their arms!"

It's tough, being the guy that gets to look up these obscure words, but I thought that, in the spirit of being a community-minded guy, I should take on the task.

Happy New Year, boys and girls!

[fredvance]

 Jon, thank you so much, I dont think I could have made without knowing all that stuff.
HAPPY NEW YEAR  EVERYBODY!!

[Glen]

That's why Jack Danials tastes so good.

[bak189]

Hey Jon, Happy Newyears........seeing that it is a slow day........can you look up the meaning of
'Rule-book"

( I know.......get over it....I am trying!)

[Kansas Bad Man]

When it went by the timing stand Cagle and I were remarking how loose it was and the fish tail was getting worse down the course, when it went side ways and the chute hit it broke the whole tail section off and DON WAS ALONG FOR THE RIDE AFTER THAT. when we arrived he was setting on the ground and trying to find his glasses. They took him to SLC for a check up and he was back in town that night. Yeah he was sore but the spirit was there to continue with LSR and record setting. During the clean up we found pieces 1 mile away it was a long debris trail.

And lying in that long debris field was a brand new fire bottle that Don had just bought.  He must have paid pretty good for it, because when he told me the story about the crash, he said that he saw the fire bottle cartwheeling past, and all he could think about during the crash was that brand new fire bottle.  He laughed, and said, "$40,000 worth of damage, and here I was thinking about the fire bottle".

                                              Max

[Old Gringo]

It's a slow day at Star Industries, Dan, so I took a few minutes and looked up the word "anoraks".  First of all -- I guess the real meaning of the word isn't a meaning -- it's a brand of jacket/coat/shirt/something.  But the term has come to mean (you ready for this?):

"The nearest equivalent non-British slang term might be "nerd". An anorak is literally a hooded waterproof coat, and the slang term was originally applied to trainspotters - people whose hobby is hanging around railway stations, monitoring the arrivals/departures of various trains and writing down their serial numbers in little notebooks. I swear there are such people, and their hobby requires them to wear suitably draught-proof clothing. By extension it has become applied to anyone with an obsessive interest in a subject that is too technical or boring for anyone else to know much about. By the way, the title of the film Trainspotters is a reference to the interest the characters had in the traffic up and down the lines in their arms!"

It's tough, being the guy that gets to look up these obscure words, but I thought that, in the spirit of being a community-minded guy, I should take on the task.

Happy New Year, boys and girls!


Can't help but input my two cents at this point. As an outdoorsman I have used the modern version of the Anorak for years. The Nerdy usage is new to me.
 Hope everyone has a Happy and Prosperious New Year.
 An anorak or parka is a type of heavy jacket </wiki/Jacket> with a hood </wiki/Hood_%28headgear%29>, often lined with fur </wiki/Fur> or fake fur </wiki/Fake_fur>, so as to protect the face from a combination of freezing </wiki/Freezing> temperatures and wind </wiki/Wind>.
This kind of garment, originally made from caribou </wiki/Reindeer> or seal </wiki/Seal_hunting> was invented by the Caribou Inuit </wiki/Caribou_Inuit>, Inuit </wiki/Inuit> (Eskimo </wiki/Eskimo>) of the Arctic </wiki/Arctic> region, who needed clothing that would protect them from wind chill </wiki/Wind_chill> and wet while hunting </wiki/Hunting> and kayaking </wiki/Kayaking>. The word anorak comes from the Kalaallisut </wiki/Kalaallisut_language> word anoraq, while the word parka is of Aleut </wiki/Aleut> origin. Certain types of Inuit anoraks have to be regularly coated with fish oil </wiki/Fish_oil> to keep their water resistance.
 In Britain, the word anorak </wiki/Anorak_%28slang%29> is also a somewhat pejorative term for people whose interests are perceived to be nerdy </wiki/Nerd>, or who have more expertise in an arcane topic than seems rational. This word usage comes from the popularity of anoraks and parkas among trainspotters </wiki/Railfan>

[fredvance]

Man it just gets better and better!!

[tomsmith]

Before computers were invented it was hard for the railroads to keep track of where the (rail) cars were.  So they hired people to write down the serial numbers of the cars at various locations.  Presumably a crew of clerks would then tally the numbers and file them somewhere so they could find lost cars that had been hooked up to the wrong train.  I remember seeing a story on early television that there were one or two people that simply stood by the railroad and looked at the cars as they whizzed by and memorized the numbers.  I assume that they were "savants".  I don't have an anorak, but I am a nerd if that counts.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Bob, not only "can" I look up the meaning of rule-book, but I did.  And you know what I discovered?  In the first 20 responses I saw, not one -- not a single one -- presented any information on "rule-book".  So I quit looking.

There were plenty for "rulebook", and many "rule book" definitions -- but none that use the hyphen.

There you have it.  And -- thanks for asking.  I need to feel appreciated now and then.

[crusher]

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