Train show vendors

Ahhh, OK, I see that I've transgressed the Taco Bell Taco Grease Preservation Society's guidelines.

Now that I think about it I can see that if it's a LifeLike dieseasel painted bright shiny could only be plastic red, it wouldn't really matter.

As mentioned in the other reply. Mr. Monk is an obsessive-complusive-disorder afflicted detective in the USA Network series Monk. He is always cleaning his hands after handling things and shaking hands with other people.

The series started in 2002 and will enter its sixth season in July.

Frank A. Rosenbaum spake thus:

Frank: Please learn to recognize when you're replying to a troll.

Did it even occur to you that the gloves are to protect the *merchandise* from dirt, oil, and fingerprints?

No, I suppose something so simple wouldn't occur to a top-poster...

Nope. I can't think in which issue of Reader's Digest it was mentioned. It was an article about browsing in antique shops and such.

Monk is an obessive/compulsive detective.

How many times are you going to wash your hands at a train meet? Keep in mind that the merchandise can get dirt and grease on your hands. It's much easier to wipe neoprene gloves clean than to wash your hands after every loco you pick up.

No, they are worried about collectability. You may have noticed that some of this stuff is quite expensive.

Troll.

Train shows are filthy places. Most dealers take a dump and don't wash their hands, then eat and hold your money.

-- "In 1964 Barry Goldwater declared: 'Elect me president, and I will bomb the cities of Vietnam, defoliate the jungles, herd the population into concentration camps and turn the country into a wasteland.' But Lyndon Johnson said: 'No! No! No! Don't you dare do that. Let ME do it.'"

- Characterization (paraphrased) of the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson presidential race by Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost Authority."

Train shows are filthy places. Most dealers take a dump and don't wash their hands, then eat and hold your money.

And as a train show vendor, you speak from first (dirty) hand experience?

tj:

I think the old magazines & books are my most consistent purchase at these shows. Information is something you can always use, and you'd never be able to do all the research for yourself in one lifetime.

I do like to see operating layouts, too, and sometimes I'll buy weird scratchbuilt or kitbashed models from an estate.

Generally I'll avoid the $20 Tyco HO cabooses on the Lionel dealers' tables. :-D Not joking, unfortunately, as the rest of you may well know.

Cordially yours: Gerard P. President, a box of track and some grids.

I wonder who is using up all the paper towels in the dealer restroom?

You profer legal advice from an unremembered article in he Readers Digest?!?

ROTFL.

Only once (after eating that glazed donut in the moring) or maybe twice (if you have a messy hamburger and greasy fries). Not before touching each loco, silly!

I haven't seen or touched merchandise at model shows that would dirty my hands enough to transfer dirt on things I touch later.

Hey, if you feel that rubber gloves are the way to go, by all means wear them. But be prepared to get some strange looks from other attendees and dealers. You'll probably hear some proctologist jokes too. Bend over mister! :-)

Peteski

It would have if you hadn't lanched into a racist rant about Chinese manufacturers.

Go back to burning your crosses on people's lawns, redneck.

Spender wrote:

snipped-for-privacy@bigfoot.com spake thus:

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If by "racist rant" you mean this that Spender posted

then I think you may be mistaking for racism what is really a pretty cogent comment on the Brave New World Economy, in which Chinese workers really do slave for 20 cents an hour producing our steamers and such.

Spare me the bullshit, David. There was nothing to mistake. The context that the ethnicity of the manufacters was mentioned in was clearly racist and defamatory.

David Nebenzahl wrote:

If by "racist rant" you mean this that Spender posted

[...] The stuff was, in all likelihood, manufactured, handled, and packaged by some Chinese worker making 20 cents an hour for God's sake. If > they won't allow *you* to examine it with gloved hands, they're either

"then I think you may be mistaking for racism what is really a pretty cogent comment on the Brave New World Economy, in which Chinese workers really do slave for 20 cents an hour producing our steamers and such.