In article , Dave Heil Mother Superior adjust
her robes and preaches by writing:

Len Over 21 wrote:

In article ,
(Stevie
Stalker, Exxtra Ethnic Cleanser, swallowed his Fleet Kit and barfed
up the following shortie) :

Subject: FCC Morse testing at 16 and 20 WPM
From: (William)
Date: 7/19/2004 6:04 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

Won't matter. When Len hits 20 years in the amateur service, these
guys will have 50. Len will still be "wet behind the ears." The
license just doesn't matter with these guys - it's merely their excuse
to act like idiots.

More excuses.

Yes, more excuses for the olde-tyme hamme raddio licensees
to vent their personal frustrations by finding faults (that done exist)
in others who have far more experience than they do in radio.

Not just "more experience" but "far more experience".

Far FAR more! Centuries! Millennia! Billions!


Right now I've got 51 years of HF radio "experience." That's longer
than you or many others have existed. shrug

And when you were in your twenties, thirties, forties and fifties there
existed on the planet those with far more HF radio experience than
you.

Fantastic! Mother Superior is RIGHT again!

The light shining from your brilliance is blinding...

After your passing from this mortal plane, others will catch up
with your experience or surpass it. Your experience will have stopped
cold and theirs will go on. Most of those folks will exist after you
have ceased to exist. That's just the way life works.

Ah, but the Olde Wuns, the Olde-Tyme Hamatuers will LIVE
FOREVER!

They will never cease! They are Immortal! Legends!


You've gotten all tangled up.

Only when in the company of Immortal Superior beings such as
yourself. No mortal can survie the onslaught of the Superiors!

There's no Blessed and Sacred or any of those other things.

No? I'm disappointed.

The Church of St. Hiram doesn't exist?

There are those with amateur radio licenses and
there are those without.

Far more without than with. Sorry, Mother Superior, but that IS
true. [put away your ruler, no spanking of knuckles...]

You've declared an interest.

In ALL radio. Worked at it. Changed majors to become an
engineer. Did it. Retired successfully.

You've posted here for about nine years.

That long? Oh, my, it has seemed an eternity... :-)

You've not taken a single step toward
obtaining an amateur radio license.

"Not a single step?" Tsk, tsk. I've walked into an HRO store.
Two of them, in fact. Bought a nice Icom R-70 in the first one.
Paid cash.

Oh, yes. I forgot! Ordinary mortals aren't ALLOWED to speak
their mind in here if they don't have that blessed amateur license!

Forgive me, Mother Superior.


Well, Old Master, the cannon fodder, Armed Militia, paint-by-numbers
stuff just marks you as a crackpot non-participant in amateur radio with
a newsgroup fetish.

"Cannon fodder?" I was in Signal Corps in the Army, not Artillery.

"Armed militia?" I've seen militiamen in here but all seem to be
mental paraplegics.

"Paint-by-numbers?" Never did that. I'm also a professional illustrator.
Don't need them.

"Crackpot?" I've never done any ceramics but have seen it done.
Some pots did get cracked. Sort of like the posters in here.

"Old Master?" Nope. Can't take that title at all. It would cause you
all sorts of grief and charges of Title-Stealing! :-)

Say hello to the other gods on Mt. Olympus for me. Have fun looking
down on mortals in the Summer Olympics. :-)

LHA / WMD