Re: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames

[Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com]

A few year ago  "Click" and "Clack" the "Tappet Brothers" on "Car TAlk" on NPR...two of the funniest guys I've ever llistened to conducted an ongoing campaign to solict "Vowels to be imported to Bosnia"...They carried that campaign on for quite some time and I almost had to stop the car a few times I was laughing so hard.

 

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 16, 2013 4:05 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames

 

In doing genealogy I collected all "Vlk"s that I ran across.  There was another Vlk family in Brookfield, not related, who had a CB&Q employee. 

Another from Ohio won a Pepsi contest because the bottle caps had the vowels scarce, not knowing we Bohemians were too cheap to buy a vowel!
Charlie Vlk

 
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On Jan 15, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com wrote:

 

The Czech language had a dearth of vowels which always fascinated me...My wife, being of that same heritage had folks in her home town with sir names like..Vrb, Trz, Srb, Brt etc. and given names like  Aloysius, Alois, Bohumel,  Vaclav (James),  Valarian (Tom).

 

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 9:41 pm
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames

 

Golly, Charlie, you don't have enough letters in your name and your father-in-law has too many! I'm just kidding you, of course.
John
--- On Tue, 1/15/13, Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 6:23 PM

 

Steve-

Since my father-in-law worked as a clerk (my wife says “bookkeeper”) in the Cicero Office…….did you know Aloysius Grodek?   He would have been working there c.1970. 

Charlie Vlk

 

 

 

John and Pete
Those are some neat nicknames BUT I would not reveal who the "Shadow" or "Cupcake" are to say nothing of "Miss Piggy" or "Gramps"  we also had a "Poopsy" in the Cicero Office had once been a trainmaster
Steve in SC

 

 

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