wrote:
Like Goober (the Andy Griffith tv movies) once said,I may be dumb,but
I
ain't stupid.I know the difference betwen antenna jacks.I have been
fooling around with radios since the 1940's.November 5,1941.
www.thecarthaginian.com
cuhulin

No one's calling you stupid ... at least not me ... for I find myself
in exactly the same financial situation you are in.
And I have a master's degree in electrical engineering (which drew me
to your posting and the replies on the TinyTenna), a 163 I.Q., and a
published book ... all of which, as Chuck Harder might say, would
together with a dollar would buy you a cup of coffee at McDonalds ...
which is just about as good as a $1.62 cup o' joe at Starbucks or
Caribou.
Speaking of stupid, though, I really wonder about Chuck Harder. I
listen to him talk on the radio about abstract stuff like politics,
economics, social issues, history, religion, and related topics, and it
just doesn't come out quite right.
For example, take economics - specifically, inflation.
Chuck Harder understands that we've had a lot of inflation since 1964
.... he goes on and on about the wondrous prices we paid for basic
necessities back then, then compares these to what we're shelling out
today.
But as Chuck tells it, all this inflation happened yesterday, not over
the past 40 years. Why, I was just recently paying 29 cents for a loaf
of bread, Chuck intones on his show, and yesterday I went to the local
Wal-Mart and the exact same loaf was $1.49. How terrible! No wonder our
dollar is in the crapper viz. the Euro!
Huh?
When was the last time anyone under 45 could remember paying 29 cents
for a loaf of bread?
I'm 46, and I certainly can't.
Chuck seems to have a problem with temporal cognition, a
fancy-schamntzy term for difficulty in telling time over very long
periods - a characteristic of adolescent brain development. If true,
this would imply that Chuck has an adolescent intellect - or in crude,
politically-incorrect parlance, is a numbskull, a lamebrain, an
imbecile, or a moron.
(You can tell I'm a Three Stooges fan ... I voted for W. too ... oh,
how so Red Nation!)
---DKW