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Carpal Tunnel
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and engineer pants pants have bibs too, but they would almost always be called 'osgoshes' after the clothing company in Oshkosh, (in Wisconson? or is it Indiana?) Osgosh made overalls in a heavy striped cloth, (that looked like pillow ticking of old)-- somehow, osgosh became associated with RR engineers, almost exclusively.
Oshkosh, by gosh!, offered small overalls for kids, with matching caps, and wooden whistles that sounded like RR whistles. (i suspect if you looked up Oshkosh.com, you find them for sale on the web site.) easily, 50% of the boys in US have had a pair of Oshkosh overalls, at least once in their lives-- they got them the same year they got the toy train set for christmas.. (edited, since i had osgosh, not oshkosh..and the web site does still sell the overalls)
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Pooh-Bah
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and this ward is for the people who had the right of way.
He was right, dead right as he walked along; But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.
Don't know the origin of that - one of my grandfather's sayings.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Or the famous epitaph:
Here lie the remains of Herman Grey He died defending his right-of-way
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Carpal Tunnel
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Intriguing. And I heard it combined into one single quatrain:
Here lie the remains of Herman Grey He died defending his right-of-way He was right, dead right as he walked along; But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.
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