Len Over 21 wrote:
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:
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!
Don't be surprised, Leonard. It happens frequently.
The light shining from your brilliance is blinding...
For a man who finds it blinding now, you seemed to have a little
difficulty with the concept earlier.
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!
Oh? Is this is the part where you drift off course into your California
Crackpot personna?
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!
What in the world are you babbling now? Is this more of the "You're a
god/You're no god" skit?
There's no Blessed and Sacred or any of those other things.
No? I'm disappointed.
The Church of St. Hiram doesn't exist?
Don't you know? You're the person who began using the term.
There are those with amateur radio licenses and
there are those without.
Far more without than with.
Yep, and you're one of those.
Sorry, Mother Superior, but that IS
true. [put away your ruler, no spanking of knuckles...]
You'll get no disagreement from me. Most of 'em don't feel the need to
plague an amateur radio newsgroup.
You've declared an interest.
In ALL radio.
That's incorrect. It is either that your memory has slipped a cog or
else it is an outright falsehood.
Worked at it. Changed majors to become an
engineer. Did it. Retired successfully.
Bully for you. What is all of that to amateur radio?
You've posted here for about nine years.
That long? Oh, my, it has seemed an eternity... :-)
You should be on the reading end of your stuff. It seems longer than an
eternity.
You've not taken a single step toward
obtaining an amateur radio license.
"Not a single step?" Tsk, tsk.
Tsk, tsk indeed. Not a single step. Nuttin', nada, zilch, zed, zip.
I've walked into an HRO store.
Two of them, in fact.
You can't buy an amateur radio license.
Bought a nice Icom R-70 in the first one.
Paid cash.
Congrats! You're an SWL.
Oh, yes. I forgot! Ordinary mortals aren't ALLOWED to speak
their mind in here if they don't have that blessed amateur license!
You've spoken your mind. Your ideas have, in general, been found
wanting.
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.
You brought up the term.
"Armed militia?" I've seen militiamen in here but all seem to be
mental paraplegics.
You brought up the term.
"Paint-by-numbers?" Never did that. I'm also a professional illustrator.
Don't need them.
You brought up the term.
"Crackpot?"
I brought up that term. It suits you.
I've never done any ceramics but have seen it done.
sorta like your experience in the world of amateur radio, huh?
Some pots did get cracked. Sort of like the posters in here.
Don't be too hard on yourself, old shard.
"Old Master?" Nope. Can't take that title at all. It would cause you
all sorts of grief and charges of Title-Stealing! :-)
You brought that one up as well.
Say hello to the other gods on Mt. Olympus for me. Have fun looking
down on mortals in the Summer Olympics. :-)
Still mixed up on that god/no god stuff? I won't look down on athletes
participating in the Olympic games, much as licensed radio amateurs are
participants in amateur radio. Been to the U.S. Olympic team's
newsgroup?
Maybe you can advise them on how best to regulate things. You could be
a sort of self-appointed advocate for somebody-or-other.
Dave K8MN