Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

When are the simple-minded idiots who are running commercial radio going to
figure it out that they are competing against a lot more now than just other
radio stations. With two or three conglomerates owning most radio in this
country and the fact that they are all programmed identically with the same
moth-eaten playlist of 50 tunes makes radio a last choice. If the owners of
the stations and the FCC would get back to basics...local
programming...they'd find their audience AND ADVERTISING REVENUES explode.
Where we live we can only receive a relatively few stations (compared to the
"Big City") but even so, of the handful of AMs and the fist full of FMs we
do receive there are 6 stations...SIX!!!...all airing the same ESPN Radio
satellite feed. What a joke. Who listens? We never turn on a radio anymore
because there is nothing there. It's the fault of the FCC and the station
owners who are reaping now what they have sown.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"SX-25" wrote in message
m...
When are the simple-minded idiots who are running commercial radio going
to figure it out that they are competing against a lot more now than just
other radio stations. With two or three conglomerates owning most radio in
this country and the fact that they are all programmed identically with
the same moth-eaten playlist of 50 tunes makes radio a last choice.

The top 3 groups, combined, own less than 10% of all radio stations in the
US.

There is vastly more format diversity than in the 50's and 60's and the days
of limited ownership.

If the owners of the stations and the FCC would get back to basics...local
programming...

People never ask for local programming. they ask for good and entertaining
programming. Remember, radios first several decades was based almost totally
on network national programming.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"SX-25" wrote in message
m...
When are the simple-minded idiots who are running commercial radio
going to figure it out that they are competing against a lot more now
than just other radio stations. With two or three conglomerates owning
most radio in this country and the fact that they are all programmed
identically with the same moth-eaten playlist of 50 tunes makes radio
a last choice.

The top 3 groups, combined, own less than 10% of all radio stations in
the US.

There is vastly more format diversity than in the 50's and 60's and the
days of limited ownership.

If the owners of the stations and the FCC would get back to
basics...local programming...

People never ask for local programming. they ask for good and
entertaining programming. Remember, radios first several decades was
based almost totally on network national programming.

You are delusional.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"Dave" wrote in message
...
David Eduardo wrote:

"SX-25" wrote in message
m...
When are the simple-minded idiots who are running commercial radio going
to figure it out that they are competing against a lot more now than
just other radio stations. With two or three conglomerates owning most
radio in this country and the fact that they are all programmed
identically with the same moth-eaten playlist of 50 tunes makes radio a
last choice.

The top 3 groups, combined, own less than 10% of all radio stations in
the US.

There is vastly more format diversity than in the 50's and 60's and the
days of limited ownership.

If the owners of the stations and the FCC would get back to
basics...local programming...

People never ask for local programming. they ask for good and
entertaining programming. Remember, radios first several decades was
based almost totally on network national programming.

You are delusional.

In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all over the
country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save weather during
extreme conditions and the traffic reports. The overwhelming and
overpowering interest is in "listening to something I like" which means
good, entertaining programming. Nobody really cares where the studio is as
long as a show or whole format is appealing to a group of listeners.

And, of course, the early days of radio were based on non-local programming,
as is most TV viewed today.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...
In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all over
the country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save weather
during extreme conditions and the traffic reports.

I would add that there is a market for local sports talk, but only in
markets where there is a major sports franchise to talk about (NFL,
Baseball, etc.).

Agreed on everything else.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

You are delusional.

In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all over
the country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save weather
during extreme conditions and the traffic reports. The overwhelming and
overpowering interest is in "listening to something I like" which means
good, entertaining programming. Nobody really cares where the studio is
as long as a show or whole format is appealing to a group of listeners.

Show? The only "shows" are the morning zoos. You and your ilk are
incapable of properly running a radio station. Your audience has no
idea what good radio is.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

Dave wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:

You are delusional.

In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all over
the country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save weather
during extreme conditions and the traffic reports. The overwhelming and
overpowering interest is in "listening to something I like" which means
good, entertaining programming. Nobody really cares where the studio is
as long as a show or whole format is appealing to a group of listeners.

Show? The only "shows" are the morning zoos. You and your ilk are
incapable of properly running a radio station.

Running? Heck, 'Eduardo' has actually claimed to have OWNED radio stations!

Amazing!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Dave wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:

You are delusional.

In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all
over
the country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save weather
during extreme conditions and the traffic reports. The overwhelming and
overpowering interest is in "listening to something I like" which means
good, entertaining programming. Nobody really cares where the studio is
as long as a show or whole format is appealing to a group of listeners.

Show? The only "shows" are the morning zoos. You and your ilk are
incapable of properly running a radio station.

Running? Heck, 'Eduardo' has actually claimed to have OWNED radio
stations!

Which, to all but the terminally insane and jealous like you, is the factual
truth, easily verified.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Dave wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:

You are delusional.

In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all
over
the country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save weather
during extreme conditions and the traffic reports. The overwhelming and
overpowering interest is in "listening to something I like" which means
good, entertaining programming. Nobody really cares where the studio is
as long as a show or whole format is appealing to a group of listeners.

Show? The only "shows" are the morning zoos. You and your ilk are
incapable of properly running a radio station.

Running? Heck, 'Eduardo' has actually claimed to have OWNED radio
stations!

Which, to all but the terminally insane and jealous like you, is the factual
truth, easily verified.

Hogwash, you owned not a one.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

dxAce wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Dave wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:

You are delusional.

In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all
over
the country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save weather
during extreme conditions and the traffic reports. The overwhelming and
overpowering interest is in "listening to something I like" which means
good, entertaining programming. Nobody really cares where the studio is
as long as a show or whole format is appealing to a group of listeners.

Show? The only "shows" are the morning zoos. You and your ilk are
incapable of properly running a radio station.

Running? Heck, 'Eduardo' has actually claimed to have OWNED radio
stations!

Which, to all but the terminally insane and jealous like you, is the factual
truth, easily verified.

Hogwash, you owned not a one.

Heck, you even lied about having an amateur radio license.

Boggling!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Dave wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:

You are delusional.

In tens of thousands of interviews with regular radio listeners all
over
the country, I've never seen an interest in anything local save
weather
during extreme conditions and the traffic reports. The overwhelming
and
overpowering interest is in "listening to something I like" which
means
good, entertaining programming. Nobody really cares where the studio
is
as long as a show or whole format is appealing to a group of
listeners.

Show? The only "shows" are the morning zoos. You and your ilk are
incapable of properly running a radio station.

Running? Heck, 'Eduardo' has actually claimed to have OWNED radio
stations!

Which, to all but the terminally insane and jealous like you, is the
factual
truth, easily verified.

Hogwash, you owned not a one.

I've told you many times to write to the commercial attaché of the US
Embassy in Quito, who can probably check embassy records and show you I
owned 100% of Radio Musical, Cia. Ltda., which in turn owned a dozen on-air
stations and numerous CPs, auxiliary licences, etc.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...



Yada, Yada, just like your non-existent amateur radio license.


As mentioned, and as anyone familiar with Latin America at the time,
there
was no exam and no requirement to get a ham license. Like a driver
license,
one could get one without an exam and without even being present.

The call, with your name, never seemed to have shown up in any records,
except
those in your fabricating mind.


Do you really think that any of the smaller Latin American nations produced
accurate lists of any type of radio stations, including amateur, in the
60's?

You probably can't even conceive of how different such nations were from the
US at that time...

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...



Yada, Yada, just like your non-existent amateur radio license.


As mentioned, and as anyone familiar with Latin America at the time,
there
was no exam and no requirement to get a ham license. Like a driver
license,
one could get one without an exam and without even being present.

The call, with your name, never seemed to have shown up in any records,
except
those in your fabricating mind.


Do you really think that any of the smaller Latin American nations produced
accurate lists of any type of radio stations, including amateur, in the
60's?

Perfect place then for a fabricating liar such as yourself then, eh?

You probably can't even conceive of how different such nations were from the
US at that time...

Toddle off, 'tard boy!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Frackelton Gleason, still posing as 'Eduardo', wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...



Yada, Yada, just like your non-existent amateur radio license.


As mentioned, and as anyone familiar with Latin America at the time,
there
was no exam and no requirement to get a ham license. Like a driver
license,
one could get one without an exam and without even being present.

The call, with your name, never seemed to have shown up in any records,
except
those in your fabricating mind.


Do you really think that any of the smaller Latin American nations produced
accurate lists of any type of radio stations, including amateur, in the
60's?

Is that another excuse why there are no records of your station ownership, oh
faux one?

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Frackelton Gleason, still posing as 'Eduardo', wrote:



Do you really think that any of the smaller Latin American nations
produced
accurate lists of any type of radio stations, including amateur, in the
60's?

Is that another excuse why there are no records of your station ownership,
oh
faux one?

There are all kinds of Ministry of Telecommunications records of the
licenses owned by Radio Musical, Cia. Ltda, and there are records showing
that, in May of 1964, my attorney, Dr. Benjamín Cevallos, incorporated that
company with me as the sole shareholder.

Very few radio stations or businesses of any kind are owned directly by a
person in their name... they are in corporations so that succession,
liability, taxation and other issues do not directly impact the personal
assets of the shareholder(s).

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Frackelton Gleason, still posing as 'Eduardo', wrote:



Do you really think that any of the smaller Latin American nations
produced
accurate lists of any type of radio stations, including amateur, in the
60's?

Is that another excuse why there are no records of your station ownership,
oh
faux one?

There are all kinds of Ministry of Telecommunications records of the
licenses owned by Radio Musical, Cia. Ltda, and there are records showing
that, in May of 1964, my attorney, Dr. Benjamín Cevallos, incorporated that
company with me as the sole shareholder.

Very few radio stations or businesses of any kind are owned directly by a
person in their name... they are in corporations so that succession,
liability, taxation and other issues do not directly impact the personal
assets of the shareholder(s).

You owned no radio stations.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

dxAce wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Frackelton Gleason, still posing as 'Eduardo', wrote:



Do you really think that any of the smaller Latin American nations
produced
accurate lists of any type of radio stations, including amateur, in the
60's?

Is that another excuse why there are no records of your station ownership,
oh
faux one?

There are all kinds of Ministry of Telecommunications records of the
licenses owned by Radio Musical, Cia. Ltda, and there are records showing
that, in May of 1964, my attorney, Dr. Benjamín Cevallos, incorporated that
company with me as the sole shareholder.

Very few radio stations or businesses of any kind are owned directly by a
person in their name... they are in corporations so that succession,
liability, taxation and other issues do not directly impact the personal
assets of the shareholder(s).

You owned no radio stations.

And, you held no amateur radio license.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:


Very few radio stations or businesses of any kind are owned directly by a
person in their name... they are in corporations so that succession,
liability, taxation and other issues do not directly impact the personal
assets of the shareholder(s).

You owned no radio stations.

I've given you names of dozens of my employees at the time and many names of
business associated and such. All can verify my ownership. But you, a bitter
old guy on pain killers who drinks every weekend in SW Michigan, seems to
know what went on in Ecuador in 1964... despite being painfully monolingual
and unaware of how different cultures are in other parts of the world!

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:


Very few radio stations or businesses of any kind are owned directly by a
person in their name... they are in corporations so that succession,
liability, taxation and other issues do not directly impact the personal
assets of the shareholder(s).

You owned no radio stations.

I've given you names of dozens of my employees at the time and many names of
business associated and such. All can verify my ownership. But you, a bitter
old guy on pain killers who drinks every weekend in SW Michigan, seems to
know what went on in Ecuador in 1964... despite being painfully monolingual
and unaware of how different cultures are in other parts of the world!

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

The real question is, why have you claimed to own radio stations in Ecuador, and
claimed to have an amateur radio license when you did not?

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a fridge when
the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because Mommie didn't send you enough money for one?

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:


Very few radio stations or businesses of any kind are owned directly
by a
person in their name... they are in corporations so that succession,
liability, taxation and other issues do not directly impact the
personal
assets of the shareholder(s).

You owned no radio stations.

I've given you names of dozens of my employees at the time and many names
of
business associated and such. All can verify my ownership. But you, a
bitter
old guy on pain killers who drinks every weekend in SW Michigan, seems to
know what went on in Ecuador in 1964... despite being painfully
monolingual
and unaware of how different cultures are in other parts of the world!

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

The real question is, why have you claimed to own radio stations in
Ecuador, and
claimed to have an amateur radio license when you did not?

Asked and answered (and there are no claims, just facts)... you have not
answered my question, showing how ignorant you are of anything but your tiny
world.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because Mommie didn't send you enough money for one?

Not even close. What my mother did was send the latest Top 40 hits from the
WIXY Cleveland playlist every week, a vital part of the Radio Musical
format.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:


Very few radio stations or businesses of any kind are owned directly
by a
person in their name... they are in corporations so that succession,
liability, taxation and other issues do not directly impact the
personal
assets of the shareholder(s).

You owned no radio stations.

I've given you names of dozens of my employees at the time and many names
of
business associated and such. All can verify my ownership. But you, a
bitter
old guy on pain killers who drinks every weekend in SW Michigan, seems to
know what went on in Ecuador in 1964... despite being painfully
monolingual
and unaware of how different cultures are in other parts of the world!

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

The real question is, why have you claimed to own radio stations in
Ecuador, and
claimed to have an amateur radio license when you did not?

Asked and answered (and there are no claims, just facts)... you have not
answered my question, showing how ignorant you are of anything but your tiny
world.

It may be tiny, but it's not fabricated, boy!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because Mommie didn't send you enough money for one?

Not even close. What my mother did was send the latest Top 40 hits from the
WIXY Cleveland playlist every week, a vital part of the Radio Musical
format.

I'll bet that's why the station owner put up with you hanging around. That, and
you probably swept the floors too!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because Mommie didn't send you enough money for one?

Not even close. What my mother did was send the latest Top 40 hits from
the
WIXY Cleveland playlist every week, a vital part of the Radio Musical
format.

I'll bet that's why the station owner put up with you hanging around.
That, and
you probably swept the floors too!

Pretty funny. You are making things up to try to not answer my simple
question, which goes to prove that you have no idea or concept of what life
was like anywhere else in the world.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

Asked and answered (and there are no claims, just facts)... you have not
answered my question, showing how ignorant you are of anything but your
tiny
world.

It may be tiny, but it's not fabricated, boy!

You probably spout "America, right or wrong" while you are admiring your
ammo collection.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because Mommie didn't send you enough money for one?

Not even close. What my mother did was send the latest Top 40 hits from
the
WIXY Cleveland playlist every week, a vital part of the Radio Musical
format.

I'll bet that's why the station owner put up with you hanging around.
That, and
you probably swept the floors too!

Pretty funny. You are making things up to try to not answer my simple
question, which goes to prove that you have no idea or concept of what life
was like anywhere else in the world.

Heck, I've been to 29 or so different countries, boy!

Now toddle off, and try to BS someone else!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...



Heck, I've been to 29 or so different countries, boy!


Like many American travelers, you obviously learned nothing of the country
except for seeing the tourist highlights, all gussied up for gullible
Americans like you.

Your hatred of Canada is an example of how little you know.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I not
have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...



Heck, I've been to 29 or so different countries, boy!


Like many American travelers, you obviously learned nothing of the country
except for seeing the tourist highlights, all gussied up for gullible
Americans like you.

Your hatred of Canada is an example of how little you know.

Your lies and fabrications are an example of how shallow and delusional you are,
boy!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...



Heck, I've been to 29 or so different countries, boy!


Like many American travelers, you obviously learned nothing of the country
except for seeing the tourist highlights, all gussied up for gullible
Americans like you.

And I'm not gullible: I don't believe your fabrications and lies.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

Bob Campbell wrote:
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a
fridge when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Were you high in the Andes where it's always cold? WAG

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Closer.

Actually, and since dxAce is clueless, it was because storing food was
unnecessary since the cook would go to the market each morning at 5 and
bring fresh things for the day. Anything left over became the meals for the
dogs. To this day, I can't take most soft drinks or juices chilled or with
ice, as they don't taste good. In restaurants at the time, sodas were
brought at room temperature, and if you wanted them chilled, you had to ask
for a glass with ice.

At one time, the manager of ECASA (Ecuatoriana de Artefactos, S.A.) gave me
one of the first Ecuadorian made refrigerators. I ended up taking it to the
stations so employees could put snacks and stuff in it; at home it had no
use.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

David Eduardo wrote:

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Closer.

Actually, and since dxAce is clueless, it was because storing food was
unnecessary since the cook would go to the market each morning at 5 and
bring fresh things for the day.

Wow! The cook!

Thanks for another great tale!

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"Dave" wrote in message
...
Bob Campbell wrote:
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Were you high in the Andes where it's always cold? WAG

Quito is not cold except at night. It goes through all four seasons every
day; day highs can be near 80, and lows around 30 at 3 to 4 AM.

The reason was, as I mentioned earlier, that there was no need to
refrigerate anything. Everything was fresh daily, and nothing was kept more
than a day. No preservatives, no salt added to keep things "fresher" and so
on.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


David Eduardo wrote:

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a
fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Closer.

Actually, and since dxAce is clueless, it was because storing food was
unnecessary since the cook would go to the market each morning at 5 and
bring fresh things for the day.

Wow! The cook!

Thanks for another great tale!

See how little you know?

In the middle class, a family would have a cook, a maid and a nanny and
probably a gardener even if they did not have a car. And they would send
their children to private schools with no exception.

Small groups of neighbors would also collectively hire a "sereno" or night
watchman who would patrol up and down the block and blow a whistle as he
passed each house, each time, to signify all was well.

In the upper class at that time (Latin America is generally demographically
divided in A, B, C, D, and E socioeconomic levels, A being upper and B being
middle with E being barter/unproductive) it was fairly usual to also have a
driver / messenger, too. Most middle and upper income homes were built with
rooms for 3 to 4 servants, and even condos had room for two (the others
might be day workers).

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

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Actually, and since dxAce is clueless, it was because storing food was
unnecessary since the cook would go to the market each morning at 5 and
bring fresh things for the day.

That's pretty much what I was thinking. Everything is
grown/picked/bought/caught/whatever fresh daily and not stored. Much of
the world operates this way.

BTW, saying dxace is clueless is like saying that SW or AM is dying.
Everyone knows this, but a few are still in denial.

Eduardo - more FMs than AMs going dark!
 

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Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a
fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Closer.

Actually, and since dxAce is clueless, it was because storing food was
unnecessary since the cook would go to the market each morning at 5 and
bring fresh things for the day.

Wow! The cook!

Thanks for another great tale!

See how little you know?

How little? Heck, I know that you are a liar and a fabricator. What more do I
need to know, boy?