Not to put too fine a point on anything written before coffee, but I'm also guilty of pet peeves. I think most people do have them for one thing or another.

One that I've pretty much given up on is the almost ubiquitous use of "sent from my _*******_" below the message. It is easy to remove that tagline on any phone or laptop, and I don't really care how anyone sends an email, but it is a distraction with the faintest scent of elitism. Sometimes I've returned otherwise serious thoughts to such emails with "sent from my HP Extreme Envy dual monitor 148GB RAM/4 TB desktop" or some other silliness below my signature, but no one seems to bite on that...

Then there is this list below from the research department at Monticello, a mere 30 minutes from our home near Charlottesville VA, a place we visit regularly with friends who stop by and wish to learn something about Thomas Jefferson.

Entry 29 of 72 appears salient. Earliest known appearance in print: 1891. Old adage indeed.

73,
- Mike KC4TOS

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/category/spurious-quotations/

On 4/19/2025 8:27 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:

Kind of a pet peeve of mine, and I'm not picking on Leslie (thank you for the picture).

There never was an ARC-5. There was an AN/ARC-5, an SCR-274N, and ATA-ARA. Of course, we all use ARC-5 in a generic term and hopefully the context makes the actual meaning clear....... Going for my first cup of coffee now.....

Mark K3SMB

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM MARK DORNEY via ARC5 <[email protected]> wrote:

SCR-274-N in Montgomery’s personal B-17

ARC -5 is a US NAVY radio

“In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle, stand like a rock. “. - Thomas Jefferson

On Apr 19, 2025, at 6:54 AM, Leslie Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

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