"Brian Hill" wrote in message
...
WTF! You need to get out more. I'm from Ca and been all over the US and
several other parts of the Big Blu Marble and I live in MN USA now. And I
have yet to find the average person as bad as you say when I extend my
hand
and say hello. Get out more and you'll find people for the most part are
ok.
Yes I,ve gotten teased about being from Ca but its all in gest. I like
when
they ask if I own a gerbil and I say no, I prefer hamsters
--

Excellent point Mr. Hill, I'm constantly jumping up on strangers,
smiling and asking them how they like their burger or if they really
think the line were in is, just the right size. Almost without
exception you'll get a smile, a chuckle or a nod of the head BUT
this **** 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.

I guess that's why she's working on being my ex-old lady.

Shawn

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

and

There is 1 out of 10 people that when you pull my silliness will just
look at
you with disgust and not play with me, but i just figure they have
broken their
funny bone and try and think a good thought for them and move on.

"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.

| 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.

Life is good.

73,

--
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KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

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From: "Stephen M.H. Lawrence"
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
Reply-To: "Stephen M.H. Lawrence"
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 20:37:28 GMT
Subject: Rednecks

(Snip)

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.

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

"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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From: "Stephen M.H. Lawrence"
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
Reply-To: "Stephen M.H. Lawrence"
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 21:14:24 GMT
Subject: Rednecks


"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!

Blazing Saddles!

"Greg" wrote in message
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From: "Stephen M.H. Lawrence"
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
Reply-To: "Stephen M.H. Lawrence"
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 21:14:24 GMT
Subject: Rednecks


"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!

Blazing Saddles!

Mongo LIKE beans!!!

"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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"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
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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

"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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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.

ROTFL!! That is just awesome!! That's the kinda stuff that keeps the world a
saner place...

Jackie