In article , John Kasupski
writes:

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:54:19 -0400, Mike Coslo
wrote:

I just hafta ask, Brian. What on earth is a rasis?

It's the female sibling of a raisin.

No, John, it is the slurred pronunciation of RACIST. [we have to
talk like that so that NURSIE understands everything, otherwise
he gets very confused]

Like ham radio, there is very little gender among raisins.

Raisins are "grapes with experience." :-)

John Kasupski wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:54:19 -0400, Mike Coslo
wrote:

I just hafta ask, Brian. What on earth is a rasis?

It's the female sibling of a raisin.


No, it was meant to be "racist," but my knowledge of pidgeon english
is about as extensive as Yell DMC's knowledge of the Air Force.

Sorry.

bb

Subject: ARRL to propose subband-by-bandwidth regulation
From: (William)
Date: 8/27/2004 9:02 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

John Kasupski wrote in message
...
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:54:19 -0400, Mike Coslo
wrote:

I just hafta ask, Brian. What on earth is a rasis?

It's the female sibling of a raisin.


No, it was meant to be "racist," but my knowledge of pidgeon english
is about as extensive as Yell DMC's knowledge of the Air Force.

I dare say I know more about the USAF, past and present, than you ever did
while in it, Brain.

Sorry.

Yes, you are VERY sorry.

Sucks to be you, Brain.

Wanna try for another 12 hours of being a man again, or did the other day
scare you off?

Steve, K4YZ

In article , (Steve
Robeson K4CAP) writes:

Baby banter, Brian...

Are you really not better than that?

I think you are.

Why do you think
that?

In article ,
(Len Over 21) writes:

NURSIE ask a no-brainer question.

Who is "NURSIE", Len?

Easy answer: Olde-Tyme Hammes at ARRL lobby for morsemanship,
get it. FCC not care much, takes easy way out and gives in to ARRL.

When and how did this
happen, Len?

That was in the past (where "Quitefine" hangs out...).

Quitefine are here, now, in
the present time. It is you
who lives in the past, Len.

Things are changing with more and more citizens able to lobby the
FCC without having to join special interest groups.

FCC has always accepted input
from all interested groups. Your
knowledge of the past seems to
have missed that. Your recall of
amateur radio regulatory history
is incomplete and defective.

ECFS has existed for at least six
years, but it simply represents a
convenience compared to paper-
and-mail comment filing.


Changes are coming....

Changes are always coming.
However, not all of us are
neophiliacs like you.

Will NURSIE be able to change with the times?

Will you?

Subject: ARRL to propose subband-by-bandwidth regulation
From: (Quitefine)
Date: 8/28/2004 9:37 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

In article ,
(Steve
Robeson K4CAP) writes:

Baby banter, Brian...

Are you really not better than that?

I think you are.

Why do you think that?

I am a Nurse.

I am eternally hopeful for the well-being and the healing of those who
suffer from illness, injury or mental defect. Brain seems to be batting about
..666 in that regard. (Ironic, the average, eh...?!?!?) He's obvioulsy hurting
from some untold trauma and he needs some encouragement to overcome it.

I know that short of having a steel rod driven through his head, Brian
Burke can do better. He HAS done better. He was off to a really good start
the other day. But just as soon as I started returning his civility in kind,
he turned around again.

I think the idea of having to live up to his OWN rhetoric about the tone
and temperment of the exchanges was more than he could handle. Lennie's hand
must have slipped out of the pocket long enough to let Brian act independently,
but he obviously got it back in before Brian could really get a good running
start.

Too bad. Now he's babbling again. And he accuses ME of being "off your
meds".

Sheeeesh.

73

Steve, K4YZ

In article , Dave Heil
writes:

Len Over 21 wrote:

Things are changing with more and more citizens able to lobby the
FCC without having to join special interest groups. Changes are
coming....

You've lobbied. I don't see any changes in your status vis a vis amateur
radio.

Don't hold yer breath, Dave!

You're still not a participant after decades of self-declared
interest. You're still not involved despite a boast of getting an
"Extra right out of the box" years back.

January 19, 2000, to be exact. Right in this-here newsgroup. Of course he was
"Lenof21" then.

Some changes must come very slowly.

Fun facts:

- Despite his claims of being online since dirt was new, Len could not get ECFS
to work for him back in early 1999. Couldn't keep up with the times, I suspect.
Most of us poor old backward hams got ECFS to work for us, though. He wound up
submitting his 98-143 comments by US mail, on disk and paper. He's been a busy
wordsmith since then, though, deluging the FCC with commentary. Most of it is
obvious cut-and-paste. Poor Bill Cross.

- FCC got about 2500 comments on 98-143, the last big restructuring. Back in
the mid-1960s, FCC got over 6000 comments on "incentive licensing", most of
them from individuals, even though there was no ECFS back then and all
commentary was plain old words-on-paper.

- ARRL lobbied to increase the code test speed from 10 to 12.5 wpm in 1936.
That was the last time ARRL lobbied for an increase in code test speeds.
Indeed, the 1963 ARRL incentive licensing proposal called for no increase in
code test speeds (full privileges would have been allowed to Advanceds under
that plan) and ARRL *opposed* the FCC idea of a new 16 wpm test for "Amateur
First Class" which FCC wanted in 1965.

- No class of US amateur radio license has required more than 5 wpm code test
since 2000. No class of US amateur radio license has required more than 5 wpm
code test since 1990 (with an easily-obtained medical waiver, and a long list
of possible accomodations).


Yet Len's sole involvement is the harangue of an outsider. Kibitzer. Sidewalk
superintendent.

Gladys Kravitz effect.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"

73 de Jim, N2EY

In article , (Steve
Robeson K4CAP) writes:

Subject: ARRL to propose subband-by-bandwidth regulation
From: (Quitefine)
Date: 8/28/2004 9:37 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

In article ,
(Steve
Robeson K4CAP) writes:

Baby banter, Brian...

Are you really not better than that?

I think you are.

Why do you think that?

I am a Nurse.

NURSIE is the nurse's nurse, fabled in song and story, known
throughout the land as the Florence Dayingwind of amateur radio?

I am eternally hopeful for the well-being and the healing of those who
suffer from illness, injury or mental defect. Brain seems to be batting about
.666 in that regard. (Ironic, the average, eh...?!?!?) He's obvioulsy
hurting
from some untold trauma and he needs some encouragement to overcome it.

[ forgot that spell-checker button again, "obvioulsy"... ]

"Hurting from some untold trauma?"

Only thing we readers all know is the UNTOLD details of NURSIE's
"seven hostile actions." Or any "hostile actions" other than in here.


I know that short of having a steel rod driven through his head, Brian
Burke can do better. He HAS done better. He was off to a really good start
the other day. But just as soon as I started returning his civility in kind,
he turned around again.

NURSIE went "civil?!?!?"

Quick, call the national press! Call "60 Minutes!" Call CNN and
the New York Times and the Washington Post!

Breaking news!!!

[ phlegm at 11... ]


I think the idea of having to live up to his OWN rhetoric about the tone
and temperment of the exchanges was more than he could handle. Lennie's hand
must have slipped out of the pocket long enough to let Brian act
independently,
but he obviously got it back in before Brian could really get a good running
start.

Tsk. More charges of homosexual acts and scatological intentions.

THAT wasn't on the ARRL website about "proposed subband-by-
bandwidth regulations..."

NURSIE's idea of "civil discourse?"


Too bad. Now he's babbling again. And he accuses ME of being "off your
meds".

Tsk. All that irrationality. Once more from NURSIE.

Toss it in the Sharps on your way out...

William wrote:

Yet, I am not Brain.

Amen.

Dave K8MN