Don't you wish you had a dollar for every time you read a stupid reply to a
poster's question, like the following typical example?


ORIGINAL POSTER asks something like this:

I am thinking about getting a Blap-O-Matic 99 tabletop receiver. How well does
this radio perform? Has anyone had any problems with it? Please share your
hands-on experience with your Blap-O-Matic 99. Thanks.



SOME IDIOT posts the following reply:

I don't know anything about the Blap-O-Matic 99, but I do have a Radio Snatch
XYZ-222, which seems to do a great job for a portable. It eats batteries,
though. I really like the little red signal strength LED.



AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!

"BlabittyBlahBlah" wrote in message
...
Don't you wish you had a dollar for every time you read a stupid reply to
a
poster's question, like the following typical example?


ORIGINAL POSTER asks something like this:

I am thinking about getting a Blap-O-Matic 99 tabletop receiver. How well
does
this radio perform? Has anyone had any problems with it? Please share your
hands-on experience with your Blap-O-Matic 99. Thanks.



SOME IDIOT posts the following reply:

I don't know anything about the Blap-O-Matic 99, but I do have a Radio
Snatch
XYZ-222, which seems to do a great job for a portable. It eats batteries,
though. I really like the little red signal strength LED.



AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!



What? You want to critisize people who try to contribute to a specific
discussion with a possible general comparision, but you don't find a
specific post to critisize?

Frank Dresser

Actually I have the Blap -O-Matic 88 and find it to be an excellent
reciever. The natural gas operated display is nice and bright and the
hamster driver mechanical filters have a great shape factor depending on
what type of skirt I put on the hamster. I believe the 99 uses geribles
rather than hamsters thus having the longer tail that pulls in that extra
faint signal.


"BlabittyBlahBlah" wrote in message
...
Don't you wish you had a dollar for every time you read a stupid reply to
a
poster's question, like the following typical example?


ORIGINAL POSTER asks something like this:

I am thinking about getting a Blap-O-Matic 99 tabletop receiver. How well
does
this radio perform? Has anyone had any problems with it? Please share your
hands-on experience with your Blap-O-Matic 99. Thanks.



SOME IDIOT posts the following reply:

I don't know anything about the Blap-O-Matic 99, but I do have a Radio
Snatch
XYZ-222, which seems to do a great job for a portable. It eats batteries,
though. I really like the little red signal strength LED.



AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!

Frank Dresser wrote:
"BlabittyBlahBlah" wrote in message
...

Don't you wish you had a dollar for every time you read a stupid reply to

a

poster's question, like the following typical example?


ORIGINAL POSTER asks something like this:

I am thinking about getting a Blap-O-Matic 99 tabletop receiver. How well

does

this radio perform? Has anyone had any problems with it? Please share your
hands-on experience with your Blap-O-Matic 99. Thanks.



SOME IDIOT posts the following reply:

I don't know anything about the Blap-O-Matic 99, but I do have a Radio

Snatch

XYZ-222, which seems to do a great job for a portable. It eats batteries,
though. I really like the little red signal strength LED.



AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!




What? You want to critisize people who try to contribute to a specific
discussion with a possible general comparision, but you don't find a
specific post to critisize?

Frank Dresser


I don't know Frank, I'm having a great day out here in the desert and
my scanner works well, eats batteries but I can recharge it.
The radio reception is great out here. The Sat 800 works well.


Burr
Grundig's Sat800&650,YB400&FR200
Drake SW8 Scanners BC 895&245XLT
Sangean DT110(for Ball Games)
Also Have a Clock Radio!!!
N35.3582
W117.4157
South Left Coast, U.S.A.

grenner wrote:

Actually I have the Blap -O-Matic 88 and find it to be an excellent
reciever. The natural gas operated display is nice and bright and the
hamster driver mechanical filters have a great shape factor depending on
what type of skirt I put on the hamster. I believe the 99 uses geribles
rather than hamsters thus having the longer tail that pulls in that extra
faint signal.

You are correct, I had a chance to use a friends 99 on a DXpedition a while back
and it really blew the 88 away. The 99 has a built in feeder for the gerbils as
well, whereas the 88 does not have that feature for the hamsters.

One can always count on a Blap-O-Matic in those tough DXing situations, no
matter what model one chooses.





"BlabittyBlahBlah" wrote in message
...
Don't you wish you had a dollar for every time you read a stupid reply to
a
poster's question, like the following typical example?


ORIGINAL POSTER asks something like this:

I am thinking about getting a Blap-O-Matic 99 tabletop receiver. How well
does
this radio perform? Has anyone had any problems with it? Please share your
hands-on experience with your Blap-O-Matic 99. Thanks.



SOME IDIOT posts the following reply:

I don't know anything about the Blap-O-Matic 99, but I do have a Radio
Snatch
XYZ-222, which seems to do a great job for a portable. It eats batteries,
though. I really like the little red signal strength LED.



AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!

Frank Dresser said while (what else?) dressing ------


What? You want to critisize people who try to contribute to a specific
discussion with a possible general comparision, but you don't find a
specific post to critisize?

Frank Dresser


What contribution? The guy only wanted to hear about the Blap-O-Matic 99, not
every other possible radio! If someone asks me about a Drake R8B, why would I
tell him about a Sony 7600? Although I didn't cite an actual example, anyone
who's read this newsgroup for a while knows what I'm talking about.

Sheesh.

You eediot!

I think that this has to be my all-time favorite thread!

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...


grenner wrote:

Actually I have the Blap -O-Matic 88 and find it to be an excellent
reciever. The natural gas operated display is nice and bright and the
hamster driver mechanical filters have a great shape factor depending on
what type of skirt I put on the hamster. I believe the 99 uses geribles
rather than hamsters thus having the longer tail that pulls in that
extra
faint signal.

You are correct, I had a chance to use a friends 99 on a DXpedition a
while back
and it really blew the 88 away. The 99 has a built in feeder for the
gerbils as
well, whereas the 88 does not have that feature for the hamsters.

One can always count on a Blap-O-Matic in those tough DXing situations, no
matter what model one chooses.





"BlabittyBlahBlah" wrote in message
...
Don't you wish you had a dollar for every time you read a stupid reply
to
a
poster's question, like the following typical example?


ORIGINAL POSTER asks something like this:

I am thinking about getting a Blap-O-Matic 99 tabletop receiver. How
well
does
this radio perform? Has anyone had any problems with it? Please share
your
hands-on experience with your Blap-O-Matic 99. Thanks.



SOME IDIOT posts the following reply:

I don't know anything about the Blap-O-Matic 99, but I do have a Radio
Snatch
XYZ-222, which seems to do a great job for a portable. It eats
batteries,
though. I really like the little red signal strength LED.



AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!

I love a good chuckle s. Let me throw in my three cents worth:

If the hamster or gerbil dies, what sauce goes well with
small-rodent-shish-kebob g ? With all that bright sun and heat, BBQ would
be really marvellous while listening to Clandestine Enemy of the State via
upper Tanu-Tuva.

"BlabittyBlahBlah" wrote in message
...
Frank Dresser said while (what else?) dressing ------


What contribution? The guy only wanted to hear about the Blap-O-Matic 99,
not
every other possible radio! If someone asks me about a Drake R8B, why
would I
tell him about a Sony 7600? Although I didn't cite an actual example,
anyone
who's read this newsgroup for a while knows what I'm talking about.

Sheesh.

You eediot!





OK, let's keep making stuff up. Say somebody asked about an intermittent
display on an R-8. Somebody fixed their Sony 7600 by disassembling it and
cleaning some contacts. Is that an exact, step-by-step fix to the R-8's
owner's problem? Nope. But it could be useful information. Other R-8
owners may have fixed intermittents in the power supply or the encoder. But
that's not a display, is it?

But let's say the R-8 owner has a peculiar sensitivity. He's offended by
answers that don't address his exact problem in his exact radio. And
usenet, being usenet as usual, brings forth many posts of imperfect
relevance. Dammit! Maybe nobody has had this exact problem in this exact
radio. Or the one guy who fixed that problem went fishing that week.

Well, I think it's high time somebody fixes usenet. Maybe when Hillary
Clinton gets re-elected as our President, she'll skip the Gays in the
Military and National Health Care nonsense and go for the really, really
important stuff. The Special Sensitivity Usenet Posters Act. Then those
people who reply with inexact answers will get almost what they deserve.

Frank Dresser

"Burr" wrote in message
...


I don't know Frank, I'm having a great day out here in the desert and
my scanner works well, eats batteries but I can recharge it.
The radio reception is great out here. The Sat 800 works well.


Burr
Grundig's Sat800&650,YB400&FR200
Drake SW8 Scanners BC 895&245XLT
Sangean DT110(for Ball Games)
Also Have a Clock Radio!!!
N35.3582
W117.4157
South Left Coast, U.S.A.



I sure hope the Sat 800 is more heat resistant than my old Bunsen 451. One
day I was listening to Brother Stair, and I heard this loud BANG!! and then
smoke started billowing out of it. For a second, I thought the old Prophet
had finally called one right. But then I noticed the radio was in the
bright sunshine, and must have overheated.

Frank Dresser