Subj : Re: Various Things To : Brian Rogers From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Jun 24 2021 18:55:00 Brian, DS> QST. This is DOFEN - the Decrepit Old Farts Echo Net. BR> Seems like almost any echo is. I don't know how many Gen Zers are on BR> here tbh. This requires a bit of setup "work"... and we all know what BR> 4 letter word is worse than the F word to them is. OK, Houdini, you tell me. BR> You want a pileup of old guys? I sure wouldn't That's the DOFEN group. They trip over their tongues...and a few other things. Your dictionary definition of H.A.M. fits perfectly. :P BR> That, and a population who's majority isn't smart enough to catch onto BR> the game being played :D And, by the time they do, it'll be too late...and they'll realize us "tinfoil hat nuts" were right all along. BR> Sounds like you're describing most new hams... gimme gimme gimme I BR> don't want to build this or that. Do it for me or else!! I'm just about BR> done with the hobby as a whole... I have been for a few years now. On BR> my support list reflector I announced my coding retirement. My BBS now BR> only accepts type T mail only because I'm the ARRL section NTS BBS. If BR> it wasn't for that, the plug would be pulled. There was an older ham (who is now a SK) who was wanting me to set up his rig for him. I said "Even if I was there to do it, if you mucked it up, and I couldn't get back, we'd be right back at square one". Apparently, the club in his area spurned him because of his constant nagging. I told him that I have other things in life besides my hobbies, and I don't spend every waking moment with them. He finally gave up. BR> There was "Living in America" by James Brown - quite different than BR> Bruce I'm not much of a "rocker". I either listen to classic country (George Jones, Conway Twitty, etc.)...classical (Brahams, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Chopin, etc.)...big band/swing (Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, etc.), or the old time hymns...the latter that most churches have spurned, because they feel that the topics of "The Blood" and "The Cross" are too gory and offensive. Truly, the days of Noah and Lot are here...with the "falling away". I don't care if I'm getting old before my time...just because the majority is doing something, doesn't make it right (i.e. jumping off a bridge). BR> Now a day it'd be because he can please 2 girls at once which fits into BR> the schema of the LGBTQXYZ community with girls today being bi/pan... BR> which is something TAUGHT in schools! I saw where Marvel Comics has a new hero with "more of the alphabet soup". If those that were destroyed at Sodom could see what was going on, they'd plead "And, WE were destroyed for what WE did??!!". I joke that the reason I came out of the closet was twofold: 1) It was dark in there. 2) I had too many clothes on the hangers. (I discovered that after I did laundry the other day). BR> So... you're saying you don't have any stones? That'll definitely BR> keep the drama away from you :P~ I don't want to have that again. I'd rather be like I've got a fire hose hooked up to me, than to deal with the pain of the stones. If I had more than one, it was "Sly And The Family Stone". :P I had to replace my 3rd T-Mobile phone in as many weeks. The Samsung A10, A11, and A12 models, are all a piece of crap. They would not hold a charge, or the battery would just die, and it wouldn't power back up. I upgraded to the A32, which is 5G. I had to do some tinkering to get it and the Verizon phone to have railroad related pictures and ringtones from the Zedge app, then had to remove the Zedge app to make it stick. However, on one phone, the text message is Daffy Duck saying "Now What?? Brother!! What A Way To Run A Railroad!!"...never mind "What A Revolting Development This Is!!" . BR> ... I got stuck for ages behind an ice-cream truck, bloody sundae BR> drivers! --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 I have got to go get a banana split!! I still have room in the freezer...maybe I should get some ice cream sandwiches. I just don't want to be like the one critter at Old MacDonald's Deformed Farm, that the barbershop quartet "Lunch Break" sang about...a lactose intolerant cow. Do a search on YouTube for "Lunch Break Carnegie Hall"...it was the day after Christmas a few years ago when it was done. Daryl .... Fer sail. Spel cheker. Wurks Fein. Cheep. --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas .