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Fight halts Orange Line train at North Station, riders will just have to be patien'
By adamg on Fri, 01/06/2017 - 12:37pm
Two men got into a fight on an outbound Orange Line train approaching North Station shortly before 12:30 p.m. The loser got punched in the eye; the winner fled out the station and onto the street, where he melted away into the crowds.
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That's a really bad rhyme
That's a really bad rhyme
It surely is
I should try to spend more than 30 seconds coming up with a headline sometimes!
It's Actually Quite Clever — The Missing Ⓣ Is Part Of The Joke!
When the Ⓣ is substituted with busses it's called bustitution.
When Adam substitutes an apostrophe it's called a strategy for uninterrupted service of adorable rhymes.
Unfortunately, the Ⓣ is not as skilled at improvisation as Adam.
stretchin it
You're always on top of your train puns adamng, but this ones a bit of a stretch! Still made me laugh nonetheless.
There are no real winners
Grown men fighting on the orange line? Calling one a winner is a bit of a stretch.
Reminiscent of the "Reginald Perrin" series
Some of you may be familiar with the 1970s British TV series "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin," adapted from an excellent trilogy by David Nobbs. One of the running gags throughout is that the British Rail commuter trains are always delayed about the exact same number of minutes each day, and the official reasons given for the delays get increasingly unlikely and absurd: for example, "Badger ate a junction box at Woking" or "Escaped cheetah at Finchley."
I think David Nobbs would've drawn similar inspiration from our much-beloved MBTA.
My favorite T delay
Remains the time the Riverside Line was halted due to turtle.
Naw. Nobb's excuses are far
more location specific and detailed than the typical MBTA alert.
IMO, this is still the best British Rail-inspired sketch
And IMO one of the best one-line jabs at British Rail in any sketch is at 3:42 in this sketch
https:
Damn you!
How dare you enthrall me with classic Monty Python clips! Have you no decency? And do you have any Gouda?
Answer at 3:04
With all due respect to comedic genius
I think The Young Ones had a better one-line jab at British Rail at 1:29 in this clip: https://youtu.be/tQslnmcHOeM?t=1m29s
(forget it, I can't get youtube embedding to work for the life of me)
I agree
That is a better one-line jab than Python's. Plus, substitute Keolis for British Rail, and it works for Boston as well.
also
That's the episode with Motörhead playing "Ace of Spades." And Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Stephen Fry as guest stars, playing 3/4ths of rival University Challenge team Footlights College, Oxbridge. Possibly one of the best episodes of any sitcom to air, ever.
Hugh Laurie
He looks like he's about 14 years old!
young Hugh Laurie
Yeah, Americans are used to seeing him as Dr. House. For more young Hugh Laurie, check out the video for "Experiment IV" by Kate Bush:
AFAIK You Can't Embed YouTube Videos To Start At A Specific Time
All YouTube videos have a unique ID code. In your example, the code for the video is tQslnmcHOeM.
The URL web address may have different things before and after the code, depending on where the link came from, or with options for how to play it. The trick is to identify and isolate just the code itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQslnmcHOeM&feature=youtu.be&t=1m29s
https://youtu.be/tQslnmcHOeM?t=1m29s
Once you've identified the video's ID code, embedding it on Universal Hub is as simple as pasting the code within a pair of YouTube tags, like this:
[youtube]tQslnmcHOeM[/youtube]
Make sure there are no spaces before or after the code, and most important of all, change the "Text format" pulldown to "Filtered HTML".
( also required to imbed images — new posters often don't know to do this )
With both the [img] and [youtube] tags, you can specify an optional size parameter in the opening tag, like this:
[youtube=200x150]sx706olUG-g[/youtube]
[youtube=200x150]iBw2c5FtvS8[/youtube]
[youtube=140x100]X6t0HS2AoSc[/youtube]
[youtube=120x100]xo01a2_-lcw[/youtube]
[youtube=140x100]5ATuIh1ed7s[/youtube]
Which will display the videos like this:
As far as I know, there's no way to specify a starting time for embedded videos. However, you can do that in a YouTube link. For example, these links to different versions of the Umbrella Man song will start their videos at times 0:54, 0:21, and 13:42, respectively:
https://youtu.be/O8OvOjCY_R8?t=54s
https://youtu.be/ZO1uMjz3n3w?t=21s
https://youtu.be/Mc_wgiFltkM?t=13m42s
As a workaround, you can imbed an image of a YouTube video, and link it to open at the desired starting time when clicked, like this:
Nice primer on UH embedded video!
It's too bad individual comments can't be tagged, in order to assemble a 'meta-article' of helpful UHub how-tos.