[Ads-l] locomotives as female

[Joel Berson]

"North by Northwest", 1959.

I think some well-known spoof movie spoofing other movies has a "train entering a tunnel" scene, together with several other metaphors.  It's so well known that, as Yogi might say, everyone, including me, has forgotten its name.
But are those the only two?
Joel
      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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Could you give the titles of some of those movies, Larry?

I've often wondered just how true that claim was.

BTW, engineer George Alley, in "The Wreck on the C&O Road"  (ca1895)  says,
"I want to die with the engine I love,/ One hundred and forty-three."

JL


JL



On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> Right, you just have to make sure it's not a locomotif.
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> (Of course the younger generations haven't been raised on all those old =
> movies in which love scenes pan to shots of trains entering tunnels.)=20
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> LH
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> > On Apr 17, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> =
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> > My nephew, who is a great train buff, the other day referred to a
> > locomotive as "her."  I asked about the gender, and he said it's
> > conventional to refer to locomotives as feminine.
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> > New one for me.
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