I thought it must be her train…. but it’s very hard to get permission and connections to travel with your own train over Amtrak and other rails.
Turns out GWR is the UK’s Great Western Railroad … (don’t laugh at me MCTS… What do I know… I’m American) and they temporarily decorated it last year when Shania Twain was performing at Glastonbury.
I wouldn’t laugh at you for not knowing the UK railway system! I might chuckle, or even ‘humph!’ but never laugh!! 😉
Incidentally, the original GWR was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a very well known engineer of his time, and was laid to the broad gauge of 7′ 1/4″. He also engineered the railway to be as level and as flat as possible. Given that everything was done with pick and shovel, it was quite an undertaking. The railway was later regauged to 4′ 8 1/2″ ‘Standard’ gauge.
The ‘Big Four’ GWR/SR/LMSR/LNER were nationalised to become British Railways (BR), before being sold off and split up into franchises in a money-grabbing exercise by the government of the time. The franchises are currently being taken back into public ownership as the contracts expire, because running a national mass transportation system for profit leads to the mess we currently endure.
As an aside, the Class 802 multiple unit is a bi-mode diesel electric, and outside third rail electric pickup, built by Hitachi in their Pistoia factory in Italy.
In my universe, Boy Blunder…err…Wonder would find the reverse switch on the Shrinkerator, quickly turn it on Batbasset, but trip over the cord as he powered it up, hitting the spider instead, releasing a Godzilla-size super-arachnid into the Evil White Cat’s lair.
See? The wiggle wiggle wiggle at the start of the clip? Everyone laughed the other day when there was a video of Mila doing that…I think ALL bassets do it.
And yes, they lower the bars when the bassets come in to jump, if they are entered in the “Preferred” class due to their weight being disproportionate to their height. (Just some random pedanticism…sorry.)
Do they raise them for greyhounds and other tall thin dogs?
I notice Diesel’s owner guides him more than some other owners do, whose dogs go racing ahead through the “weaving” and up the slanted boards (dunno what they’re called). But I suppose since she wasn’t touching him it didn’t cost points.
Hmmm…that’s an interesting question. Since I only researched bassets over the last 30 years, I had to look. I don’t see anything relating to going higher for any reason. Basically the bars are set to the shoulder height with exceptions for the breeds with physical limitations.
And yes, this hound was rather slow on the pole weaving – and the time counts against you. But the trainer did good keeping the hound on focus. Many times the nose gets them going the wrong direction entirely. I’ve seen clips where they leave the course, run up to people sitting around the edges, and beg for pets. (They generally don’t score well when they do that!)
Before I switched to hounds, I played around a bit with my shelties and thought it would be hilarious to watch a basset run the course…and I was right. But I never followed through with my own.
One more final comment – not that it matters much, but again it was in that period of research when I was considering bassets. I reached out to a community called “They Daily Drool” website, and made contact with the owner of one of the hounds that had been used in the Hush Puppies commercials – the question was “will my sheltie get along with a basset hound”. The answer was a pawsitive: they had both a basset and a sheltie, and the basset would get along with any dog. So I got my basset, and the sheltie was quite content running/herding the hound down the fenceline and back. Over and over…
Shania Train.
I thought it must be her train…. but it’s very hard to get permission and connections to travel with your own train over Amtrak and other rails.
Turns out GWR is the UK’s Great Western Railroad … (don’t laugh at me MCTS… What do I know… I’m American) and they temporarily decorated it last year when Shania Twain was performing at Glastonbury.
I wouldn’t laugh at you for not knowing the UK railway system! I might chuckle, or even ‘humph!’ but never laugh!! 😉
Incidentally, the original GWR was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a very well known engineer of his time, and was laid to the broad gauge of 7′ 1/4″. He also engineered the railway to be as level and as flat as possible. Given that everything was done with pick and shovel, it was quite an undertaking. The railway was later regauged to 4′ 8 1/2″ ‘Standard’ gauge.
The ‘Big Four’ GWR/SR/LMSR/LNER were nationalised to become British Railways (BR), before being sold off and split up into franchises in a money-grabbing exercise by the government of the time. The franchises are currently being taken back into public ownership as the contracts expire, because running a national mass transportation system for profit leads to the mess we currently endure.
As an aside, the Class 802 multiple unit is a bi-mode diesel electric, and outside third rail electric pickup, built by Hitachi in their Pistoia factory in Italy.
From today’s K=London “Daily Mail.”
In my universe, Boy Blunder…err…Wonder would find the reverse switch on the Shrinkerator, quickly turn it on Batbasset, but trip over the cord as he powered it up, hitting the spider instead, releasing a Godzilla-size super-arachnid into the Evil White Cat’s lair.
But if BatBasset and Sparrow stayed small, before the super spider could eat the evil-doers, it would have a quick BatSnack…
Neither we BatBasset fans, nor the world’s arches, would ever recover!
Okay – yeah, I’d better return to our normal universe. I like my other universe better ’cause I don’t have to rake leaves all November.
See? The wiggle wiggle wiggle at the start of the clip? Everyone laughed the other day when there was a video of Mila doing that…I think ALL bassets do it.
And yes, they lower the bars when the bassets come in to jump, if they are entered in the “Preferred” class due to their weight being disproportionate to their height. (Just some random pedanticism…sorry.)
Do they raise them for greyhounds and other tall thin dogs?
I notice Diesel’s owner guides him more than some other owners do, whose dogs go racing ahead through the “weaving” and up the slanted boards (dunno what they’re called). But I suppose since she wasn’t touching him it didn’t cost points.
Hmmm…that’s an interesting question. Since I only researched bassets over the last 30 years, I had to look. I don’t see anything relating to going higher for any reason. Basically the bars are set to the shoulder height with exceptions for the breeds with physical limitations.
And yes, this hound was rather slow on the pole weaving – and the time counts against you. But the trainer did good keeping the hound on focus. Many times the nose gets them going the wrong direction entirely. I’ve seen clips where they leave the course, run up to people sitting around the edges, and beg for pets. (They generally don’t score well when they do that!)
Before I switched to hounds, I played around a bit with my shelties and thought it would be hilarious to watch a basset run the course…and I was right. But I never followed through with my own.
One more final comment – not that it matters much, but again it was in that period of research when I was considering bassets. I reached out to a community called “They Daily Drool” website, and made contact with the owner of one of the hounds that had been used in the Hush Puppies commercials – the question was “will my sheltie get along with a basset hound”. The answer was a pawsitive: they had both a basset and a sheltie, and the basset would get along with any dog. So I got my basset, and the sheltie was quite content running/herding the hound down the fenceline and back. Over and over…