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Dave Heil wrote:

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From: on Thurs, Aug 24 2006 6:30 pm

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From: on Wed, Aug 23 2006 7:46 pm

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From: on Tues, Aug 22 2006 7:14 pm

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From: on Mon, Aug 21 2006 6:30 pm

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From: an old friend on Mon, Aug 21 2006 3:16 pm

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From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006 2:57 pm


... I was a schoolboy of 14 and I obtained something which
stymies certain people in their eighth decade of life.


Congratulations on your 15th birthday in here. Was there a
big party at your Internet Middle School in 2006? :-)

I'm not fifteen. I'm fifty-seven. Don't you get anything right?

I was fourteen in 1963. That was forty-three years ago. I've been
participating in amateur radio ever since. What's your holdup, Bub?
:-)

I didn't get my First 'Phone until age 23...didn't need one in the
three years prior of keeping HF comms working.

Who has been discussing commercial licenses, Leonard?

"Stymie?" Is that one of you buddies?

Why would it be one of my buddies? I didn't blow smoke about getting an
"Extra right out of the box".

Tsk, tsk, not-bother-with
does not equate to what you wrote.

http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/STYMIE
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Verb: stymie (stymied,stymieing,stymies) stImee

1. Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymy, embarrass

Derived forms: stymied, stymieing, stymies

Type of: forbid, foreclose, forestall, obstacle, obstruction, position,
preclude, prevent, situation
unquote

It works fine in describing your predicament.

Oh, and its SEVENTH decade, not "eighth." Can't you get ANYHING
right?

Bye-eeeeee....

I GOT it right, Len. If you've passed age 70, you're in your eighth
decade. Better brush up on your math a bit. Don't you get anything right?

Sheesh!

Dave K8MN