Subj : Re: Various Things To : Brian Rogers From : Daryl Stout Date : Wed Jun 09 2021 12:36:00 BR> Hello Daryl; Hi, Brian... BR> Look her up then and you'll see what you missed ;) I knew a Stephanie back in elementary school...and knew of Stephanie Abrams at The Weather Channel. Those are the only 2 of these folks I knew about. BR> That almost doesn't make sense that certain things failed that aren't BR> related to each other but others stayed running. That's why I don't use BR> soundcard packet - it's not trust worthy. We didn't learn our lesson in BR> the mid 90s with software (WIN) modems. Why hams went backwards is BR> beyond me. Cost! Clearly a case of 'You get what you DON'T pay for' That sounds like Microsoft Windows...they did another update yesterday. I don't use soundcard packet, but the packet via telnet. I have an MFJ 1270C TNC with a power supply...but no cable or rig to go with it. When I had an Icom T7H dual band HT with a magmount antenna and the cable, I hooked those up to the BBS, and was able to use the Packet Door done by the late Dave Perry, W0KGU (SK) (I think that was his call...he passed away 10 years ago). His QRZ Door only works with an old data CD of QRZ (which I still have), but I tell folks to look on the internet for more current callsigns. However, I use his BULLET door for bulletins in several categories, the REGSCAN door for Part 97 (I need to update that), and the Worked All States progress door. All of his doors require a DORINFO1.DEF dropfile, but don't have a fossil driver. So, you have to run them under Synchronet, with its DOSXTRN utility, or create a generic DORINFO1.DEF dropfile and use DOORWAY to run it under another BBS software for it to work under telnet. DS> Some just have "the gift of gab". :P BR> Quite true. Sometimes I wonder if they're failed DJs and we now BR> know why lol I had originally wanted to be a DJ...but never dreamed my radio would be amateur radio. DS> Hams are frugal cheapskates...and I use the term loosely. BR> You're way too kind. Tell us what you really think So, you want me to be a lid?? Quite a few think I'm that already on my nets...especially in the way I run them. But, I've been doing nets for 30 years, and I *SHOULD* know what I'm doing...the hard parts are: 1) Remembering what day of the week it is. Even after Tuesday, the calendar says WTF 2) Remembering what net I'm supposed to be running that day or evening. I do nets on Sunday afternoon, Monday night, Tuesday night, Friday morning and night, and on the 3rd Saturday afternoon. 3) Sitting in the computer chair for long periods of time (folks want early checkins an hour before the net...I just cut that in half). I have to have the walker next to me, or I'm a fall risk in getting up. Or, my butt goes to sleep, and it starts snoring. Yet, when you ask them if they want to do the work involved, and they backpedal. Those who pitch a fit about the way an organization, etc. is run, should be the first in line to take over as an officer, net control station, etc. BR> You haven't experienced being a passenger until you've had a cab ride BR> in NYC! The AT&T building usually has chunks missing in the corners BR> from cabbies deciding to blow red lights by going up the sidewalks... BR> no joke! I think that speed limit and other related signs and signals are "just a guide". Only in America...we race to beat the: A) Traffic lights at intersections B) Trains at railroad crossings C) Boats at drawbridges But, we'll stand patiently for 3 hours on the golf course. BR> Never give your proctologist the finger, they hate being told how to do BR> their jobs But, as Jeff Foxworthy noted, "they meet a lot of @$$h0les in their line of work". Yet, "a butt is a butt is a butt...but..." BR> Uncle Joe keeps spending (You know who that is, the uncle your little BR> girl won't talk about) it'll be ten fold worse. The *ONLY* think I've liked about Biden was that he was pro-Amtrak. Otherwise, I'm sure there's a move afoot behind the scenes to get him out "gracefully", and put Kamala in as President...which puts Nancy Pelosi as Vice President. I guess then AOC will become Speaker Of The House. I saw where they are livid with West Virginia Democrat Manchin (I think) who REFUSES to lift the filibuster...saying "it will blow up the Senate". I pray I'm dead and gone when the bottom falls out of this once great country...which doesn't like it'll be too much longer in coming. Will we make it to America's 245th birthday?? I'd be very surprised if we do...and doubt we'll make it to 250. AOC says that "to stop crime, we need to tear down all the jails". She needs to go back to being a bartender...she's drunk with power, like most of the rest of them are. BR> If he was smart he'd rent the downstairs to some illegals I thought those were big sick birds. BR> I avoid all dancing at all costs! I only can do break dancing - BR> whenever I do dance, something in me breaks. Now, my pants will fall down...and it'll be full moon rising. When I first did square dancing, it was back in elementary school, where we danced boy-boy, girl-girl (this was over 50 years ago), and we thought nothing of it. When I got into lessons of the Western Square Dance (all the calls are in English, anywhere in the world), the first night of class, all these women I didn't know were giving me hugs, known as "yellowrocks". I thought "What have I gotten myself into??!!". But, after graduation, it was like "Next, Please!!". One caller (he passed away a few years ago) tried to do a demo at an elementary school, and put a boy with a girl. But, to this boy, this girl had cooties, and was poison...and he wasn't going to touch her!! When I was able to travel to the National Square Dance Conventions (I was into square dancing 5 years before I got my ham radio license), I took my HT with me. Taking Amtrak allowed me to talk to other hams, and to listen to the Conductors and Train Crews, and monitor NOAA Weather Radio (I even checked into a Skywarn Net from the Dining Car on one trip). At the Convention, I'd meet several other "dancing hams". We'd pick a simplex frequency to decide where to sightsee, dance, eat, etc. But, one year, I used amateur radio to call for help, saving the life of our shuttle bus driver, who was assaulted by the hotel security guard. I got on a repeater, gave my callsign, the "MayDay" call (it WAS the safety of life), and said I had emergency traffic. A ham heard me, and sent the police and paramedics there. The driver had to be taken to the hospital, and have his face rebuilt from the incident. The case went to jury trial, and the state of Florida flew me down there on Easter Weekend (not my idea of a Florida Vacation) to testify on the Monday after Easter. The guard was convicted of aggravated assault, and there was also a civil suit filed against the hotel and the security guard firm (I'm not sure how those came out). But, after the incident, the fellow square dancers on the bus said "You saved his life!!", and I said to them "THIS is what amateur radio operators prepare for...Emergency Communications". But, I was shaking so bad afterwards, I couldn't do any more dancing (it was the last night of the convention). BR> Feel lucky you get disability. Here I was told by an obese black woman BR> that white males in this state by the color of their skin do not get BR> benefits. If I cry about it, I'm a racist. That's what the younger BR> generation has helped promote. I think of 2 Bible verses, where The Lord Jesus Christ said "Woe to you who devour the fortunes of widows. For you shall receive the greater damnation"...and He also said "Vengeance is Mine...I will repay". I can NOT wait to see both of those fulfilled...when all those who screwed over the less fortunate, get what they deserve. Even the late Howard Hughes lies in his grave without a wooden nickel in his hand. There are some who say that Cain was the first black man (God put a mark on him, after he killed his brother, Abel...but more so that Cain wouldn't be killed in revenge). However, the King James Version of the Bible does NOT explicitly say that...the truth is, "WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE". Yet, they then say "black is the color of darkness, the occult, evil, etc.". As a side note, Moses' wife was a black woman. However, many black folks have come to know The Lord, so that argument doesn't hold water (my late wife looked like the late black gospel singer Mahalia Jackson). Yet, I'm afraid many more of mankind are going to reject The Lord than accept Him...as He said "wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there are that find it. But, straight is the gate, and narrow the way that leads to eternal life, and few there are that find it". Now, my late mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law were black, my late father-in-law is white (he might be dead and gone now), and my late wife was "a mix". Yet, we pee the same yellow, poop the same brown, and bleed the same red...so, what is the problem??!! Besides, over 40 years ago when I was working at the local Burger King, many nights I was the only white guy on the crew, and we were having a ball!! I remember 2 black guys...one named George, and the other named Gerald. George was a fellow cashier, and Burger King had just come out with their original chicken sandwich (which is quite good, IMO...as are their nuggets), and he called out the order "Chicken...make it all white meat!!" (it was). Then he, and the rest of us busted out laughing. Gerald said of one black woman who had come in to get an order, then left...that "she's double breasted down". She looked like a black Dolly Parton...with huge breasts...yet, I knew that was killing her back muscles...and she likely was risking a hernia...if she didn't already have one. One of the black girls named Denise always referred to me as "the little virgin boy". I only had relations with one woman in my life...my late wife. Now, if you count all our thoughts and fantasies, all of us lost our virginity when we entered puberty. One of my late wife's cousins, Tracy, was a gorgeous black female (I thought so, anyway)...we're talking great pelvic structure, etc. ;) I didn't marry until I was 43, but never dreamed I'd be a widower at 47. BR> I'm done volunteering. Yesterday I drank a can of liquid death (yes BR> it's a real drink!)... it failed I'm definitely not volunteering for any new long term jobs. I will print some business cards for personal friends locally...but otherwise, I don't offer to do it. I discovered I'm low on color ink, but have plenty of black ink. BR> Teachers stopped teaching "there's no I in team" years ago, as did BR> parents. And, the parents want the teachers as babysitters. I am of the OLD SCHOOL, where "children should be seen and not heard...and not speak unless spoken to. When they are, it's 'Yes, Ma'am...No, Ma'am...Yes, Sir...No, Sir". I still do that at 61, and even address the older hams on my nets (I'm still a puppy by comparison, but I'm weaned and potty trained ), "Mister John, Mister Roy, Miss Virginia, Miss Jennifer", etc. When asked why, I reply "Respect...because if I give it, they will return it". Kids nowadays have no clue to what that is...and they wouldn't be caught dead doing it. BR> I found it hysterical that Kamala (the old wrestler would do a better BR> job!) went to Guatemala and their president gave it to her up the BR> pooper... little did he know she likes that (it's how she got where she BR> is) and how she was greeted at the airport by locals carrying "trump BR> won go home" signs yet the lame stream media never touched it. She BR> tried to say the border issue is to be faulted by global warming to BR> which he said bullocks it's Biden's fault! He called it as he saw it - BR> and how it is. Duct tape can't fix stupid, but it helps mask the noise. :P There was a deal years ago in theatre, a concept called "Sleep Your Way To The Top", and that's likely the case in many areas today. I created a bulletin on the BBS on the difference between porn and nudity. Some feel that they're the same thing, but the only thing in common is that folks are naked (never mind "Don't Look, Ethel!!"). Ironically, when Ray Stevens ("The Streak") did his shows, the opening act was "Ethel And Her Shameless Hussies" . Some probably think the original Coppertone suntan logo (with naked Jodi Foster's untanned buttocks showing) is porn. But, then I covered the issue of sodomy...to me, doing it that way is one of the fastest ways to get and spread disease...and I know that the late Farrah Fawcett died of anal cancer. Whether it was because of that "strange sex" (some women do like that), I don't know. I saw a message that showed a period, then a huge O -- the size of your anus before and after prison. :P To me, that's EXIT ONLY, except for medical devices or medical suppositories (I heard of one guy who had those words painted on his butt cheeks). Indeed, a few years back, I was having bladder spasms and intense urinary pain, crying and screaming in the Emergency Room, naked on the cold, hard gurney. Two good looking female nurses walked in, and said to me "You're not going to like us". I said "I'll kiss you if you make the pain go away". They then said "We have something for the pain, but it's an oversized suppository". They gave a whole new meaning to the term "shove it!!"...but it took away the excruciating pain, and that was all I cared about. Men are wimps when it comes to pain...although I knew a woman who said she'd rather have quintuplets in hard labor, with no epidural, than one kidney stone. That pretty much sums it up. BR> More like I won't miss them. The only "drama" one should have in life is if they were in theatre arts (i.e. in a play)...I was involved in that in junior high, senior high, and college. We had co-ed dressing rooms, but you didn't have time to "take inventory of the opposite sex". You were changing from one costume to another, preparing for the cue of your next entrance on stage. BR> such junk run by corrupt folks licensed by the bar who don't deserve to BR> be and that it's too deep for me to fix - thank you but no. To attorneys, the bar exam is how many drinks of tequila they can swig before they hit the floor. And, they don't want you to raise the bar, as it makes it too hard to get the drinks. :P BR> There's no checks and balances anymore. I don't believe half of those BR> who have been convicted actually are guilty, and vice versa. You can BR> eat a cleaner meal off the grounds of a junkyard vs that of any BR> government office. Well, on Judgment Day, not even Perry Mason will be able to help these folks. They'll probably say they were "set up" (sounds like Nancy Pelosi, on being caught at the San Francisco beauty shop without a mask, etc.). But, there will be no question of guilt on that day. Again, only each individual and The Lord know the extent of their guilt or innocence in every circumstance...and, that applies to everyone...whether we want to admit it or not. That's like these folks saying "I don't have time"...to which, I say "All of us have 1440 minutes per day. We make time for what we want to do, or consider important" (and I'm also talking to myself there). BR> My late father was in the navy. I wish I knew that one back in the day BR> :) I am grateful to all the veterans and first responders. DS> I've often wonder how much of that monetary forfeiture money is ever DS> collected. BR> Oh, a good chunk of it - yet it's never reported as government income! BR> Ever notice that?? I believe it's only The Divine Hand Of God keeping the financial collapse from happening; but it will happen...and it'll make the crashes of 1929 and 1987 look tame. The money is fiat...not worth the paper it's printed on. You might as well print it on toilet paper. BR> ... Fibula - A small lie That's what they think all of them are...even if it breaks the 9th commandment. I think of the cartoon where (I think it was) Moses, who asked The Lord "We're to cut off their what??!!" Sounds like one of the scenes from "Porky's", where these Native Americans basically did such to these guys from the KKK who had assaulted one of the Native Americans. Daryl .... How long do we have to practice sex before it's safe?? --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas .