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tuna fingers		2009-12-15 02:43:52 PM

lokidecat: You know you've been a TF'er too long when you can predict replies.

Clue reference? Check.
Streetlight Reference? Check.

Man we need some new material.

New material?
Look at the cleavage on bohab's "Just Shoot Me" screenshot.
Well done!

Barnstormer		2009-12-15 02:44:27 PM

GoSurfing: Barnstormer: Had the comment that it was a mystery train been in the article instead of the comments it would be appropriate to debate the merits of the IRONIC tag. I find it likely that the commenter was trying to maliciously stir up just such sentiment.

And yes, it would be ironic if true. Irony is like acidity, not pregnancy. If the pH is high enough, it passes the litmus test.

From the article:
The man, who has not been identified by authorities, was struck and killed by a Murder Mystery Dinner Train around 9:15 p.m.

Irony, as my English teacher always said, involves the incongruity between the expected result and the actual result.

(a) I was looking for that and apparently missed it.

(b) my point stands. The incongruity is not an either/or, there is some room for subjective opinion. That's why the "is it or isn't it" arguments are often moot.

/and suddenly the irony nazis vanish in a puff of smoke

Barnstormer		2009-12-15 02:45:51 PM

And in this case the incongrutiy arises from the fact that the patrons of murder-mystery events expect a fake death, not a real one. QED

medius		2009-12-15 02:47:42 PM

Oh, I got that trouble in mind, that's true
I have almost lost my mind
Oh life ain't worth livin'
Sometimes I feel like dyin'
Tell you what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna lay my head
On some lonely railroad line
Oh, let that 2:10 train ease my trouble in mind

numbone		2009-12-15 02:49:59 PM

tuna fingers Quote 2009-12-15 02:38:23 PM
I enjoy murder mystery dinners/parties.

Nice change from the mundane. Wife and I are planning one early next year.

Who's getting hit by the train?

medius		2009-12-15 02:52:01 PM

numbone: Nice change from the mundane. Wife and I are planning one early next year.

Who's getting hit by the train?

they had that party last night

tuna fingers		2009-12-15 02:52:06 PM

numbone: tuna fingers Quote 2009-12-15 02:38:23 PM
I enjoy murder mystery dinners/parties.

Nice change from the mundane. Wife and I are planning one early next year.

Who's getting hit by the train?

That would be the missus. I'm currently being slowly poisoned by oleander.

smellyrunningshoes		2009-12-15 02:54:26 PM

Moonlighting, Season 1, Episode: Next Stop Murder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0651073/)

www.universal-playback.com

\feels old for having that as my first thought

Otter_		2009-12-15 02:54:52 PM

numbone: Who's getting hit by the train?

Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train.

tuffsnake		2009-12-15 02:55:02 PM

StarshipPooper: No mystery pr0n? I don't believe it.

Ron Jeremy did with with the pen0r in the set of Swedish Bikini Models

Sedatedbylife		2009-12-15 03:09:20 PM

RevBigfoot: Oh man, I've always wanted to go on that thing. It looks like a good time. Maybe now I can get a discount on the tickets.

I've always wanted to go on it too, but why would you now? It's obvious the conductor did it.

linker3000		2009-12-15 03:11:33 PM

OMG this is getting to be a regular occurrence!

In around 1994, I took a train from New York to Atlanta (Yeah, I know: Brit sense of adventure). First, the train hit a fallen tree on the track somewhere South of Philadelphia and bust some air hoses & punctured an air tank. The crew tried to plug the holes but this didn't work (AND they announced all this over the PA system!). Fortunately, we were on a stretch of double track so the next train stopped alongside us and we changed trains.

We got to Washington and changed trains again, but this one developed an electrical fault in the dining car so we had to wait on board until it was detached. Meanwhile, the police arrived to take away a drunk couple who met on the train as strangers but decided to get down to it in one of the corridors!

Just outside Atlanta, we screeched to a halt and it turned out we'd hit someone walking to work along the track. We were near a road crossing and saw the police, fire trucks and paramedics turn up. Soon after, we saw a man with a bandaged, bloody arm being escorted to a police car - apparently, he'd bounced off the front of the train and only had minor cuts. The conductor announced that the man had apologised to all of us for delaying our journey!

Never seen any of that on the 1.5 hour journey to/from home to London Victoria!

gulogulo		2009-12-15 03:21:25 PM

WTF, pics. Who thought those added anything to the story?

Barakku		2009-12-15 03:22:17 PM

Psychics, in the three dimensional space, with F =m*a

Dead-Guy		2009-12-15 03:27:07 PM

The train killed the man?

Killed him and damn near wrecked them!

That's kinda weird for a delay though right?:

Police: "We're sorry, to announce that your train has killed a man, and we will be delaying you for about two hours while we investigate."

Old guy: "What did he say!?"

His wife: "oh.. quiet dear it's starting already!" (winking to the police officer and speaking in a stilted voice) "ohh! he's dead you say?! Whoever could have done such a thing?!"

Policeman narrows his eyes at the lady "Perhaps you should come with me.."

Old guy, "hmmph.. I dont understand.. he got killed by the train? Is that how this is supposed to go? What the hell kinda' mystery was that?! .. that was easy.. the train did it!" (to wife) "See? I told you this was going to be stupid Ethel. What?! Where are you going now?!"

smoke screen		2009-12-15 03:33:18 PM

Nothing good ever EVAR happens in North Ft Myers EVAR

bongmiester		2009-12-15 03:34:21 PM

oh jeez, not this sh*t again

Cold1s		2009-12-15 03:37:13 PM

Cue the "I can't fap to this" guy.

smoke screen		2009-12-15 03:37:56 PM

North Ft Myers is like the largest collection of scumbags and a-hole douchebags on Earth. Only safe way to see it is on Google Earth....try it you will find out what the human cesspool really looks like....absolutely not surprised at all that this happened here. Nothing good happens in or comes from NOFO!!!!

rynthetyn		2009-12-15 03:41:00 PM

linker3000: OMG this is getting to be a regular occurrence!

I came here to tell my train hitting someone story and find out I'm not even the first person in the thread to have that experience.

I was on a train in Vietnam that all of a sudden came to a screeching halt. Everybody ran over to look out the windows because by the time the train stopped the car I was in was right at the crossing. The train had hit a woman on a motorbike, she must have bounced off of the train because her bike was damaged and her foot was pretty torn up because her flip-flop had gotten ripped off in the process.

The train stopped long enough for some official-looking people to get off and bandage the lady's foot and to fill out a bunch of paperwork, and then we continued on.

UHC2005		2009-12-15 03:46:51 PM

braedan: UHC2005: hugheric: "This is war Peacock!"

"But look what happened to the cook!"

/one of my favorite movies growing up

1 + 2 + 1....

/We're like the mounties, we always get our man!

Mrs. Peacock was a man?

duckwash		2009-12-15 03:50:34 PM

Mincemeat pie was the last course?

Sedatedbylife		2009-12-15 03:56:41 PM

smoke screen: North Ft Myers is like the largest collection of scumbags and a-hole douchebags on Earth. Only safe way to see it is on Google Earth....try it you will find out what the human cesspool really looks like....absolutely not surprised at all that this happened here. Nothing good happens in or comes from NOFO!!!!

And I thought I loathed it.

zymurgist		2009-12-15 04:00:40 PM

Dr. Nick Riviera: I flipped on NPR the other day and they were talking about ingrained murder is into American pop culture (CSI, Law & Order, etc.). They were interviewing people who knew someone who was actually murdered and asking how they felt about it. One of the ladies brought up a good point: it's not like you ever see a rape mystery dinner.

Those 40 pound boxes get pretty heavy if you have to schlep a trainload of them.

NonAstrologer		2009-12-15 04:01:28 PM

That's some fine photography there Muldoon.

zymurgist		2009-12-15 04:05:35 PM

I lay my head on the railroad tracks
And wait for the Double "E"
But the railroad don't run no more
Poor, poor pitiful me

mr.fisher		2009-12-15 04:11:28 PM

My mother died by suicide by laying in front of a train, so I'm getting a kick blah blah.

Kraftwerk Orange		2009-12-15 04:17:59 PM

Quick and dirty:

i555.photobucket.com

Tainted1		2009-12-15 04:20:26 PM

Colonel Mustard, with the dining car, in the library!

tuna fingers		2009-12-15 04:35:00 PM

mr.fisher: My mother died by suicide by laying in front of a train, so I'm getting a kick blah blah.

All aboard the FAIL TRAIN!

It's lying in front of a train. Your mother died by suicide by lying in front of a train.

AHAHAHA!
FAIL TRAIN!

houseofdows.files.wordpress.com

mr.fisher		2009-12-15 04:37:28 PM

tuna fingers 2009-12-15 04:35:00 PM
mr.fisher: My mother died by suicide by laying in front of a train, so I'm getting a kick blah blah.

All aboard the FAIL TRAIN!

It's lying in front of a train. Your mother died by suicide by lying in front of a train.

AHAHAHA!
FAIL TRAIN!

Me talky good! You know speaky guud!

Altho if she was laying in front of the time would it be murder/suicide?

medius		2009-12-15 04:43:33 PM

the lay of her life, no doubt

Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goon		2009-12-15 04:44:47 PM

Barnstormer: And in this case the incongrutiy arises from the fact that the patrons of murder-mystery events expect a fake death, not a real one. QED

No, this is a coincidence.

Now, had it been an Operation Lifesaver train, a.k.a. one of those trains that goes around educating people about the prevention of these kind of incidents, then there would have been some irony.

dan86turbo		2009-12-15 04:53:03 PM

UNC_Samurai: Was it Two Two Twain?

Use your goddamn pronouns and prepositions! *THE* Two Two Twain!

Funk Brothers		2009-12-15 06:02:12 PM

Here's a mystery, try to find two men on a train bound for Florida that is apart of an all woman band. Some Like it Hot.

Dr._Love		2009-12-15 06:21:37 PM

A deputy on the scene said it appeared the man was alive and perhaps fell asleep on the tracks about a half mile north of Slater Road. "It's quite a ways to walk off the beaten path," Schall said.

He said it's too early to speculate why the man was on the tracks.

Doubtless there is a trainful of people willing to give him exposition on this point, provided he supplies tea, a drawing room and an audience of people present at the murder.

/scones encouraged but optional

tuna fingers		2009-12-15 06:21:48 PM

Funk Brothers: Here's a mystery, try to find two men on a train bound for Florida that is apart of an all woman band. Some Like it Hot.

Give me a hint. What instrument does the train play?

Timdesuyo		2009-12-15 07:56:47 PM

jehovahs witness protection: So it was in the dining room with....a train?

Yes. In Osaka.

news.sky.com

Whitenote		2009-12-15 07:56:55 PM

Murder, climb aboard the murder train!!!!!!

Burn_Atlanta		2009-12-15 09:01:54 PM

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Buncha killjoys.

Egalitarian		2009-12-15 09:18:15 PM

it's the LOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL train.

whenIsayGO		2009-12-15 09:18:43 PM

I've never desired to do dinner theatre, and have specifically turned down environmental theatre jobs, but a murder mystery dinner train? I would totally do that.

S7P		2009-12-15 09:36:03 PM

bongmiester

i45.tinypic.com

FotoGeek		2009-12-15 10:30:33 PM

wanted for questioning

ShonenBat		2009-12-15 10:52:56 PM

And the culprit is in this very thread!

*cue dramatic organ music*

MadCityWriter		2009-12-15 10:55:55 PM

Man, bet they just ate that one up...plot twist and all.

legion_of_doo		2009-12-16 12:14:20 AM

The Bay Area's CalTrain = DEATH!!!!!

Saw a dead body while riding CalTrain (the aftermath of a jumper during the AM commute). Also was on a train that struck a jumper on a PM commute.

When you hear non-train noises under your train car, you know. Train f***ing hit someone & dragged bits of person for a while, which kicked up a shiatload of gravel at the underside of the train.

Eventually, something broke on the person chunk so that the chunk of corpse wasn't dragging any more, & the gravel stopped hitting the bottom of our train car.

And, no, they didn't announce that the train just killed someone. First, there's "an intruder" on the tracks, so the train has to stop. And then some poor conductor had to go out & make sure the jumper was dead (because the CalTrain jumpers die, they don't bounce off)... and they had to get the cops & the coroner involved. Then they could say that the train indeed hit someone. And you have to wait for the cops to photograph all the bits & make sure the larger chunks are covered up/placed in baggies... and the replacement crew for the train has to come aboard, and you might have to de-train because there's people chunks all over the bottom of your train... and when you're getting off the train, you're wondering if the smell is the normal train smell or if it's dead person stink...

I love public transportation.

WTF Coordination		2009-12-16 01:39:07 AM

Timdesuyo: jehovahs witness protection: So it was in the dining room with....a train?

Yes. In Osaka.

Damn! My friend was on that train and luckily survived with only a dislocated shoulder.

/cool story, bro