"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
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"Brian Hill" wrote:
| Damn it Steve! I new you hated hamsters! LOL! Now were did that hamster
go?
| Here! hamster hamster!

Damn, time to head to the Bunker of Doom.

Okay, it isn't a bunker, it's a den.

Well, all right, damn it, it's a walk - in closet.

LOL, Youse funny, you make me laugh, like hah, hah.

That was funny and your timing is spot on which is hard to do on line.

Zaphod

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
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"Zaphon B." wrote:
| FREAKS my old lady out. It embarrasses her and makes her
| feel uncomfortable. How can engaging a fellow human being in
| silly conversation for a moment or two be bad?
| **** If I do nothing else in life but make a person or two, grin or
| laugh, then I think I've helped ease the pain in the world a little
| or at least in that persons life.

Here in Minnesota, Shawn, that kind of thing is a team sport.
I believe we've got leagues set up to compete in small talk.

It's funny; I can always spot a non - Midwesterner: They
are the folks who, when you chat 'em up, look like you just
took a crap on their shoes.

Boy that's no lie, although I've been all over, my heart and soul belongs to
Kansas City and
us midwesterners are really the friendlyist americans out there.


| PS. Oh and another two things
| I'm also NEVER suppose to talk to or start conversations in
elevators

Funny story from my days in Milwaukee: I was getting
lunch at the Grand Avenue Mall, and in steps a very
well - dressed lady and two guys who obviously worked
with her. The most oily, rauncy, smelly, raucously - loud
fart jumped out of me. I turned around, looked surprised,
and fixed my gaze on the lady, and said, "Jesus Christ,
lady!" She got out of the elevator on the second floor,
the guys stayed in, the door closed, and the guys laughed
to the point of tears. One of 'em said, "I've wanted to do
that since I started working for that woman!" I replied,
"Damn, that's going to itch when it dries." They laughed
their butts off, and we parted friends.

Funny story and 100% true I'm betting.

Zaphod

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"Greg" wrote:
| Great story - the moral, I guess, is "If you want to make friends you
have
| to break a little wind". Lucky for this NG you can't do that over the
| Internet!
|
| Greg

I am willing to bet that is the primary reason "smell - o - vision"
never made it big, as technologies go.

One of these days, I'll regale the group with a campfire story
about the time a couple of friends and I went on a DXpedition.
The Bill of Fare consisted of eggs, Bush's Baked Beans, sausages
with sauerkraut, peppers, and onions, roasted corn, and cases of beer.

We decided to do our listening in the great outdoors. The tent
was too doggoned, ummm......stuffy.

Yeah, that's the ticket!

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

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You and Ben Franklin would have been buds, I think he wrote a small book on
farting didn't he, or is that just an urban legend?

Zaphod

"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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There's something about you that I like (besides your nym being one of my
favorite characters). You seem to be able to speak your mind largely
without
name calling and ad hominem attacks. It's nice to discuss and debate ideas
without character assassination.


Thank you but only this past week I have slung insult to a lady that
were about as foul and disgusting as I have ever said. So much that it
embarrassed me then and now really and caused me to lose sleep, I'm being
good and paying penance right now. :0)

Oh and reread my quotes above, I essentially called the man a flake for
no other reason then jumping into a discussing and expressing his feelings.
I'm sure he has gotten burned in a flame war or holds grudges for whatever
reason. Coming from someone who is at the bottom of his life and quite
possibly not long due for this world, I can smell or at least I think I can
spot fear. The guy is scared about something and the fear expresses it self
in the form of anger, condemnation and loathing.

Although it wasn't "in your face" and I didn't use any of those bad
words I like so well, I did drop right down to his level and insulted a
stranger, which is something I would never do in public, unless they did
sort of bust in on my party and start being rude to me or my guest. Hey wait
a minute, didn't even our Lord Jesus have righteous anger? When he trashed
the temple and whooped ass on all those money lenders.

Maybe this guy should have been blasted for trying to rain on all our
parades, I'll have to think on this.

Sorry for rambling, it's late.

Zaphod

PS. While there are still all the silliness, if you what some honest
discussion with some very bright folks, check out the philosophy n/gs you
have some real serious PhD slinging bad motor scooters hanging around there.
While talking about life the universe and everything may not be your bag,
they do occasionally use there n/gs for what I could only call the best and
highest use that these n/g could ever be used for in a strictly educational
rational manner. Most of them even have the good taste to simple ignore
anyone who stumbles in and is a ****** or troll and does all those nasty
debating tactics you mentioned. Great men and women for the most part..Sorry
I'm rambling again.

PSS. Brenda and I love that name because I've loved a few Brenda's in my
time. I'm very much the sort of man you're mother warned you about and told
you to stay away from, you virtue or at least your sanity are at risk if you
get to within shouting distance of me. Just a heads up. :0)

"Zaphon B." wrote in message
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See now, you're funny.. I like that.

As far as attacks go, yours are quite mild. Sometimes I think there should
be a sign posted at the top of each post to rrs..

"Welcome to the rec.radio.shortwave Ad Hominem Festival July 1 - June 30"

"Brian Hill" wrote:
| You got me Steve? The air must be thin on top of those high horses? Some
of
| the weirdest **** I've ever heard came from the mouths of professors. They
| didn't like it when I laughed. They were damn serious. lol!

I told my (feminist scholar, she called herself) Western Civ I
perfesser that if bull**** was an airplane, she'd be a 747!

I got a D minus.

I think the worst thing you can do to a perfesser is laugh at them,
but doggone it, they're so RICH in material!

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

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"Greg" wrote:
| Blazing Saddles!

It was a cross between that, and the Western that
starred John Candy (I think it was his last film).

Fortunately, no mushroom clouds were witnessed
(a la Beavis and Butthead do America).

73,



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"Zaphon B." wrote

| Boy that's no lie, although I've been all over, my heart and soul belongs
to
| Kansas City and
| us midwesterners are really the friendlyist americans out there.

I lived in Topeka in the '90s, and spent about half of my time
(work - related) in Kansas City. Johnson County in particular
is one of the best - kept secrets in America. I loved Kansas
and Missouri, because I knew I could stop in a local watering
hole or cafe, light a cigar, and not get that Brown Shirt Stare from
folks.

I caught almost as much fish when I lived in Kansas as I do now,
in Minnesota, but the winters weren't cold enough for my liking.

Go figure!

73,

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"Zaphon B." wrote:
| You and Ben Franklin would have been buds, I think he wrote a small book
on
| farting didn't he, or is that just an urban legend?
|
| Zaphod

Actually, he wrote a number of bawdy tales, a few of
which I've read - I'll have to look for the "fart tome,"
because I'm a big fan of farting in general.

73,

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"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
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"Brian Hill" wrote:
| You got me Steve? The air must be thin on top of those high horses? Some
of
| the weirdest **** I've ever heard came from the mouths of professors.
They
| didn't like it when I laughed. They were damn serious. lol!

I told my (feminist scholar, she called herself) Western Civ I
perfesser that if bull**** was an airplane, she'd be a 747!

I got a D minus.

I think the worst thing you can do to a perfesser is laugh at them,
but doggone it, they're so RICH in material!

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

LOL! I love gerkin there chains. And such easy targets too. So serious yet
so detached from reality.

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73 and good DXing.
Brian
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