A lot of movie fans probably know Sean Connery had a small role in the 1962 movie The Longest Day which came out shortly before James Bond made him a superstar. I wonder how many know that Gert Frobe, the actor who played Goldfinger, also had a non-speaking role in that film also. He played the German Seargent who delivered coffee every morning to the troops on the beach. His character’s name is a play on German words as listed by IMDB—Sgt. Kaffekanne.
Actors like to keep busy with odd jobs between roles in major films.
Robert
When it showed up in the mail a couple days ago, I thought the length of the issue was the April Fools joke. Pretty thin! If it loses a few more pages it will be thinner than the Walthers flyer.
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We had an early one in 2017. Dear Br. Zero was checking to see how carefully we read the magazine, so on the Feb.2017 issue he had left the date as Feb. 2016. and I called him on it.
Johnboy out…and still waiting for the April one, it is usually here by now but probably lost in the snow for a bit.
Yeah. You, and everybody else. [:(!] I don’t suppose the fact that this happened more than a year ago, and I had nothing to do with it, would encourage you to let it go?
I forgot I was reading the April issue, and it sounded like something someone would actually do. [;)]
The big elephant in the room question is would it actually work???
I mean plating your track with a conductive noncorroding metal might have its benefits, might be worth looking into!!!
Work? Probably quite well.
Be affordable to anyone short of Warren Buffet or Bill Gates? Probably not.
I had to go dig up the previous 2 years, oh yeah, 2 in a row silly product reviews. Moving it to a ‘reader tip’ changed it up big time.
“The express, Mr. Bond? I expect you to operate the local!”
–Randy
My April issue arrived yesterday. Clever joke this time. I’m glad MR has a sense of humor.
Does anyone recall when was the first time MR did and April Fool joke, and what was the joke? … What are some of the more memorable April Fool jokes ?
More than two years ago, I believe, but the product review they did on the Wisconsin Central box car made me think for awhile.
I’ve been doing some looking, and it was at least 20 years ago. In the April 1998 issue, the Club News column included an obituary for a cockroach that was struck by a train and killed. The item came complete with photo.
Well, The Longest Day was a major film, nominated for five Oscars including best picture that year.
I don’t think gold would be a viable option but what about other non corrosion susceptible conductive metals?
No you don’t. Some clown will always post the gag here before half of us even have the issue in our hands.
As an aside, on page 69, the caption under the photo incorrectly uses the work “mike” instead of mic to abbreviate microphone. Who proofread that?
Was the John Allen “tiny scale” photo published in April? It involved a brass loco photographed with a giant gag pencil and coin. Probably in the 1960s.
I just found and read what I think is the April fool’s joke. Cant comment further without giving it away. But, on several fronts, wow!
(Edit) Excellent job Mr. Otte!
Probably a proofreader. “Mike” has been an accepted term for microphone since well before the Second World War, and remains a common term. Consider how you would express ‘close-miking’ (as in organ recording) using the other abbreviation.
Hey Stix-
Yeah, that was a great movie and it had a lot of big-name stars in it. I just wanted to make a relevant comment including the words odd job. Shocking that nobody caught the reference.
Robert
Wasn’t there one about a prototype railroad going to magnetic knuckle couplers?
Kevin
These ones stick out the most to me:
the review of the Kalmbach publishing 1:1 boxcar
The Hamster cleaning subway tracks
The Shoveling setup for steam locomotives, where there was a crew of two, and the second had to shovel “virtual coal” for the loco to move.
There were several more good ones, but I need to go through the april issues.