Subject: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: Purple Foxx Date: 08 Mar 06 - 03:50 AM Report in "The Diary" section claims that a sign on Penrith Station reads "Please Keep Back From The Platform Edge Or You May Get Sucked Off" Can anyone confirm or deny this unlikely sounding claim? |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: GUEST,GUEST: Train Driver Date: 08 Mar 06 - 03:53 AM This may date back from the days of the line from Penrith to Cockermouth..........sorry..(but true - it shut in 1964).. |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: GUEST,catsPHiddle@work Date: 08 Mar 06 - 04:33 AM I got that picture in my email a few weeks ago...an oldie but a good! |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: Piers Date: 08 Mar 06 - 04:41 AM You'd better believe it! |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: greg stephens Date: 08 Mar 06 - 05:41 AM The Boat Band's new CD is called "A Trip to the Lakes"(Harbourtown HARCD47). Now you know why we are recommending it. |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: kendall Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:50 AM There are some rather unusual place names in Scotland too. Lick, Bun and Tongue. |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: Guy Wolff Date: 08 Mar 06 - 07:02 PM I worked in Penrith as a young potter but never noticed this sign .. Though I miss a lot with my crummy eye sight anyway .. All the best . Glad to see Penrith make it into a thread. Guy |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: Cluin Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:35 PM That pic looks "Shopped" to me. |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: skipy Date: 09 Mar 06 - 07:35 PM Surely this is a take on the old joke (60s or probably earlier) ***** don't stand to near to the edge of the platform or the train will come along & suck you off. "Come on train!" |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 09 Mar 06 - 09:38 PM Some years before that, I heard tell of a sailor who fell overboard & was sucked under the pier by a 5-foot WAVE. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: How we got here is no indication of what to do next. :|| |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: GUEST Date: 02 Mar 11 - 12:05 AM This would actually be the Penrith Station in the UK, not in Australia. |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: GUEST,Paul Burke Date: 02 Mar 11 - 01:49 AM Surly it was Penistone? |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Mar 11 - 02:02 AM Real sign at Northampton Hospital.. just as strange.... |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: Dave Hanson Date: 02 Mar 11 - 04:10 AM Or ' hey boy, you get off that fence before the train comes on and tosses you off ' Dave H |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 02 Mar 11 - 07:08 AM Maybe an urban legend, but wasn't there once a billboard which stated 'Nothing sucks like a Hoover', upon which someone had graffiti'd 'Tracey does' followed by her phone number? |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 02 Mar 11 - 07:40 AM And the old famous sign on a campsite: 'Every erection on this site must be reported to the warden' |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: alanabit Date: 02 Mar 11 - 09:52 AM Sign on a church placard: "If you are tired of sin, come to Jesus!" Grafitti below: "And if not, phone Tracy -378192." |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: BrooklynJay Date: 02 Mar 11 - 11:53 AM For an interesting surprise, click here: www.penisland.net |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: Manitas_at_home Date: 02 Mar 11 - 11:56 AM It was a different surprise to the one you imagined! Website not found! {It works now. You MUST add the http: part to the address) El Clono And you must make sure the slashes go forward: // not \\. El Clono #2 |
Subject: RE: Penrith Station (Adults Only) From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 02 Mar 11 - 05:44 PM ... otherwise Mudcat thinks the url points to somewhere on Mudcat and helpfully adds the www.mudcat.org/ bit.... |
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