Subj : Re: Various Things To : Brian Rogers From : Daryl Stout Date : Sat Jun 12 2021 17:31:00 Brian, BR> Perhaps we should move to Netmail since most of our banter isn't about BR> Ham Radio :) Well, I will have some stuff about the hobby. Yet, hams do like to ragchew about things besides ham radio. BR> The days when Coke didn't play political favorites too. I was surprised when I went into a restaurant earlier...they finally got rid of the mask requirement. I am full as a tick right now, from the heavy grazing. Again, H.A.M. stands for H)ave A)nother M)eal. With all I ate (garlic cheese sticks, salad, chicken parmasan with angel hair pasta, mozaralla cheese, and tomato sauce...all washed down with 3 glasses of sweet tea), I won't need to eat again until tomorrow. I am reminded of a church bulletin blooper, who was having a missionary, who was serving in Africa, speak in the evening service. The bulletin noted "Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa". I guess we should be glad her name wasn't Francine Fart. On the way home, a vehicle had its radio and speakers on so loud, that even with my car windows closed, my car was shaking like an earthquake was going on. On that subject, while Little Rock may get some minor damage when the New Madrid Fault goes, Memphis and St. Louis will fare far worse. The Hernando DeSoto I-40 bridge over the Mississippi River is closed until further notice...but they are supposedly working around the clock to get it back open. I wonder if there were (or still are) traffic nets, related to that. BR> You missed some great times with a fun OS. It's DOS support rocked! We BR> used it for running multiple sessions of MFNOS packet. If they didn't BR> stop at Warp 4 I would probably have never became a linux partner BR> developer with Debian and RedHat. I had no intention of switching. I can write a batchfile for the BBS, but my programming ends at setting the clock on the microwave oven...I'll starve to death if I forget how to do that. BR> Find a set or two of those Rat Shack helping hands. I use those all the BR> time because of my neuropathy. Mind over matter! There's a ham named Tom, I think his call is KD0MOM -- he says it stands for "Mind Over Matter". All I can think of on that, is after seeing the singing ventriloquist Darci Lynn Farmer, and one of her "dummies" (named Edna Doorknocker), it changed the perspective: Darci: Edna!! Don't you that kissing a man that young could be fatal??!! Edna: Well, if he dies, he dies!! [raucous laughter] Darci: Edna Doorknocker!! Edna: Darci, don't you know when it comes to love, it's mind over matter. Darci: What does that mean?? Edna: If they don't mind, it don't matter. Later on, Edna wanted to sing, and Darci told her "Without me, you don't sing!!", and Edna retorted "Without me, you don't have a college fund!!". It brought the house down in raucous laughter. At a restaurant today, I was telling some ham radio pun humor to this 14 year old girl (her parents were right there), and it all depended on where your mind was. All of it was strictly ham radio terms and puns... and the FCC would've strung me up had I used vulgar language on the air. My brother said it was vulgar language, and I said "it just shows where your mind was". The female waitress (who is one of the managers) had a T-shirt on that said "Does this shirt make my tits look big??!!" It reminds me of a meme, where this guy has 2 dogs attached to his butt cheeks, and he asks his wife "Do these boxers make my butt look big??" If you go to my bio on QRZ, click on the hyperlink, then scroll down, and look for the Ham Radio Comedy PDF file. If you can't laugh after viewing the stuff in there, you have a lot of problems. :) Now, some of the items, you can't say on the air...but they're good for eyeball QSO's...such as "The Missing Q Signals". BR> "If you build it, they will come... to destroy it" That's the BR> deFacingBook way of living life - hate and be hated. No one has any respect for anyone else's stuff anymore...or very few do. BR> Now-a-day even live hosts don't give the time. Years ago we would give BR> the time a specific way to help with our ratings - if you knew what you BR> were doing. Now, the time is irrelivant as the diaries are electronic BR> so the tricks you learned back then no longer apply. Takes away a bit BR> of the spirit of competition. On the local station, KMJX, an Arkansas DJ legend, Bob Robbins, is on the air Monday through Friday from 5am to 10am. He gives the time, weather, etc. -- but there's a lot of stuff that's obviously pre-recorded. He also heads up the yearly Toys For Tots campaign around Christmas. Speaking of which, would you believe that an area Hobby Lobby ALREADY has Christmas stuff available?? I've heard of Christmas In July, but that is ridiculous. A few years ago, there was a commercial for Staples, that was using the Andy Williams classic "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"...running in late July. I thought "Gad!! Not Christmas Stuff Already!!" Well, you see a little boy and girl, walking sullenly with long faces, like they're about to get the spanking of their lives... and it's Daddy with "It's Back To School Time!!"...and I went "YES!!" . To me, you could also apply the most wonderful time of the year to the hamfests. I've noticed events are slowly getting going again...although there's no way I can afford to go to one...although I would love to. Back to Christmas stuff, that's like the "Redneck Woman" song, where she keeps her Christmas lights up all year long, and knows all the lyrics to every Charlie Daniels, Tanya Tucker, and Ol' Bocephus (Hank Williams, Jr.) song. The singer's first name is Gretchen, but her last name escapes me right now. That station was originally a "hard rock" format; but now, after a change in station ownership several years ago, they now play the classic country-western legends" (many who are dead and gone now). The late George Jones' song "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" hits the nail on the head. I either listen to it, or the classical music (Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Lizst, Chopin, etc.). If there was a big band station, I'd listen to it as well (yes, I'm trying to get old before my time ). DS> was asking for it, but wasn't expecting her to come back with such a DS> zinger. BR> She told you She was a great winner, but a sore loser...especially in games on the BBS. Before I proposed, I had told her that "I'm ahead of you in these games", and I thought to myself "that means none for me tonight". To which, she said EXACTLY what I was thinking!! I knew were were meant for each other. :) The thing is, if I can't beat the games on the BBS, I know I can't hit the lottery (in all cases, I've lost more than I've won). BR> I still have most of my teeth - fortunately. Good for you. Remember, if you have 32 redneck women, you have a full set of teeth. BR> I can't further comment without being overly cruel. Might be BR> justified but cruel. It's a double standard. "They" are right, but everyone else is wrong. So, they can say whatever they want, but you don't dare speak any dissent. That's what totalitarian despot dictatorships have. BR> Me either. I've had friends that have had it and had seizures right in BR> front of me! Talk about scary!! One trick I found helps... yell things BR> to make them think! It gets the noggin in gear and helps get things BR> back in order. When I have diabetic seizures that's what I do. A couple BR> have turned into mild stroke and each time it's occured I've managed to BR> shrug it off by thinking of mathematical equasions, or program code. I'm pre-type 2...the highest my A1C has been is 6.1 (the threshold is 6.4). If I remember right, there is a medical net on D-Star on Saturday mornings, but the info escapes me offhand. One of the area hams loves CW, and did a segment called "Health Talk" on one of the local radio stations years ago. He has retired now (age), but he would go down to Florida in the dead of winter, and work CW on the HF bands...telling folks in Canada how warm and beautiful the tropical climate was. You could almost hear them telling him to STFU. BR> I'm sure that music wasn't the only thing beating Never mind watching the pendulum swing. BR> There's a LOT of truths you never hear a peep about. They really need BR> to be exposed, such as the first group of people to storm INSIDE the BR> capital on January 6 were Antifa members, NOT MAGA folk. Babbitt was BR> killed by the same capital cop who allowed Scalise to be shot during BR> that warm-up ball game. Note: that black cop is also a high ranking BLM BR> member. I'll stop. The only consolation that I have is that on Judgment Day, everything will come out in the wash...even for those hams who really did me dirty years ago...and I nearly quit the hobby because of it. BR> I shave mine, then drive down the freeway and open the sunroof... to BR> enjoy the sensation of the air blowing through my scalp :P~ Never mind "shine your head for a quarter". BR> If I want drama I'll date again. Same here. While I hardly consider myself as "Fresh Meat", to me, there is nothing left in the sea anymore. BR> It's not at all fun, trust me. I've had sinus issues for nearly 50 years, and they still have no clue on how to treat it. BR> My neighbor had some bear in his yard, they left the rear evidence BR> there. I told him next time leave the roll of Charmin out for it Or the bear coming out of the residence where it said "The Woods" on the door...or out of the forest, saying "I wouldn't go in there, if I were you". Daryl .... Tried keeping a stiff upper lip, but my face muscles hurt. --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas .