RadioBanter - View Single Post - Is the code requirement really keeping good people out of ham radio?

[email protected] · October 14th 06, 02:27 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
From: on Tues, Oct 10 2006 3:40 am
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
From: Dave Heil on Sun, Oct 8 2006 3:22 am
wrote:

Len never attended a Roman Catholic parochial school. Was never taught
by nuns or smacked around by them.

Was the parochial school *required*...

How many kids get to choose what school they attend?

like morse code
ability *required* to transmit on HF? :-)

Lutherans don't go to parochial schools,

Then you cannot know what Roman Catholic parochial school was like,
Len.

Why not, poor baby. I've pointed out that your post wasn't funny and
wasn't worthy of an adult male.

Wasn't worthy of a grade schooler.

True,

That's right. You're just not funny, Len.

it IS worthy of grown-up sarcasm tossed at smug,
arrogant, self-defined amateur extra morsemen gods of
radio. :-)

No, it's just pathetic.

First Rule of Comedy: The audience determines what's funny. If the
audience doesn't think it's funny, it's not funny.

is "expert" in show business?!?

Don't have to be an expert to know the First Rule.

can come out west and tell Mitzi Shore how to run
her Comedy Store Club. :-)

She will tell you that the First Rule applies. If the audience doesn't
laugh, the act isn't funny.

be on Letterman's show? (all should know so
they can tune in to Leno instead...)

A couple of Morse-code-skilled radio amateurs were on Leno a while
back. They made mincemeat of the *world champion* text messager.

have SAG card? SEG card? AFTRA card?

Cards do not make one funny.

Those cards are effectively union membership cards, even if the unions
call themselves "guilds".
Liberals love unions. Are you a liberal, Len? Sure seems like it.

Len thinks he is either the Pope or royalty.

Neither. :-)

Then why do you use the first person plural pronoun to refer to
yourself?

I am for DEMOCRACY...all to be heard on subjects.

Really?

Then why did you tell another citizen:

"shut the hell up, you USMC feldwebel"?

Recently you said you wanted rrap to be shut down for an indefinite
length of time. Is that the action of someone who really believes that
all should be heard?

Such will end soon as "moderation" begins in here.

Not at all.

Every freedom carries with it a related responsibility. Freedom of
Speech carries with it the Responsibility of Truth. You want the
freedom but not the responsibility.

He's all about "rank, status, and privilege".

YES!

Well, there you have it.

TO the smug, arrogant, self-defined gots of radio,
better known as the amateur extra morsemen.

"gots of radio"?

I *have* several radios....

Poor amateur extra morsemen have no sense of humor
about their own selves and their life work. Tsk.

First Rule of Comedy invoked.

ByteBrothers famous phrase invoked.

"Who is John Galt?"

Morsemanship makes you superhuman.

Well, since Len won't describe what "morsemanship" is, here's a working
definition:

NOT the correct "definition."

Says who?

I coined the word.

But you didn't define it, even after several requests. So others get to
define it.

You snooze, you lose.

YOU don't get to mint copies (knockoffs).

Language is constantly evolving, Len. You got left behind.

You can try, but it will be in ERROR as your usual failure
to recognize that others don't think like you do.

I think more people agree with my definition than with yours.

A MORSEMAN lives, breathes, eats morse code as the main topic
of his/her life.

Well, that leaves me out. Morse Code is just one small part of my life.

A MORSEMAN wants to freeze time back in the 1930s when code
was king of small station communications.

Not me. I'm right here in 2006.

A typical MORSEMAN has the callsign K4YZ, N2EY, or K8MN but
those are otherwise indistinguishable from one another.

How about K0HB, WK3C, W7RT....?

Anonymous MORSEMEN are represented by "Slow Code" and his
general angry attitude towards anyone not worshipping him.

You mean the way you have a general angry attitude towards anyone who
disagrees with you?

As always to you, ByteBrothers famous phrase invoked.

What phrase is that, Len?

Could it be the one about getting an Extra right out of the box?