[Boatanchors] HCI Saturday Net Live From The Pond

[Dave Roscoe]

Duane is back.....
All the way back.
And a little more.

Dave W1DWZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer@usol.com>
To: <boatanchors@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:21 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] HCI Saturday Net Live From The Pond


>
>
> As always, you dudes with the non-Hallicrafters rigs be welcome too -
>
> Was the geographically challenged human who first called the Atlantic
Ocean "the
> pond", blind, living proof brain transplants do not work or simply too
dumb to
> realize there is a difference between an ocean and a pond? Croak! Lock
your
> doors and don't you dare reach for the deep fryer! It's me, Frogzilla and
if I
> so much as imagine one of you bipedal locomotive escapee's from the gene
pool
> are craving frog legs, your radio antenna are going to look like so much
melted
> butter. Then you can dip your vintage tubes in it before crunching on a
triode
> or pentode! Croak!
>
> The frog pond is beautiful. Even though Summer has stunk like the three
week
> old garbage you forgot to take to the road for pick up, the lily pads are
big
> and green, the water cress is growing faster than zits on a teenager and
the
> pond scum looks like whipped cream with a hint of parsley for color. The
Hustler
> 6BTV is spit polished and ready to resonate like a beer puffer in one of
those
> outdoor acoustic amphitheaters! Guaranteed to set off the smog alert horn
if you
> had a tuna on whole wheat or egg salad sandwich for lunch! It is looking
good
> standing there on the little island in the center of the frog pond with
coils,
> or is it traps?, stretched toward the ethereal blue beyond. In any event,
it is
> ready to rock the propagation deities knees like seeing their female mate
first
> thing in the morning with curlers in her hair, that stuff that looks like
rancid
> cake frosting on her face and pieces of paper hanging out between her
teeth that
> are supposed to make them more white while she sleeps! Gross! No wonder
the
> propagation has been so tempermental as of late! Croak! So one of you
> propagation addicts write a discourse on the 'PMS' factor of the eleven
year
> itch, or is it the solar cycle?
>
> I will be there live from the real pond hosting the Saturday HCI 40 meter
Net on
> July 26th. I have better humans to harass than you really ancient vintage
vacuum
> tube farts, but because the old blind dude is trying to croak on me, and
if he
> does, I too stop croaking!, I was forced at pencil point to do this Net or
be an
> ink mark destined to meet Mr. White Out. So join me and my amphibious
friends at
> 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC) for the pre-Net program where everybody brags
about
> what they bought at a Ham Fest for almost nothing. Complains they have no
shelf
> space left to put it on and wants somebody to send them a manual or
schematic
> for free! Then hang ten for the real deal Net at 1:00 PM EDT, (1700 UTC).
The
> frequency is the same as always, 7.280 Mhz lsb +/- for key clicks, mike
splatter
> and the sound of the deep fryer at the local Long John Slithers seafood
joint
> exploding and spraying that Turtle liver oil they cook in all over the
employees
> who are running out of the place in their stupid looking Pirate uniforms
> screaming four letter words that don't even rhyme with 'fish'! End of the
> amphibian sea food special plate, how does that crab ya? Croak! A real
smelt
> down! Croak! Who is Mike Splatter anyhow?
>
> So warm up those Hallicrafters, if you are bright enough to find the power
> switch. If not, ask any five year old in your neighborhood to read the
fine
> print for you! Croak! Be there, bring a friend, bring your lunch, burp the
tune
> to "I Wish I was In Dixie" while holding your nose, get your XYL's
attention to
> refill your coffee mug by hurling a 3-500zs at her! When she finds out
what they
> cost, you won't have a gas problem, but you may have to hire a surgeon to
remove
> that shoe in your rump causing severe chronic constipation! Croak! Hear
you then
> good buddy, 1004. OOPS! Sorry about that, forgot I wasn't cruising with
that
> female trucker in her eighteen wheeler through the swamps of Louisiana
working
> skip on the old CB rig. While I do not relish eating distant cousins for a
> snack, those Cajon Crawdads soaked in homemade beer and served with that
zesty
> sauce that would burn the paint off a M1 Abrams Tank make that ridge
running
> music more palatable. Seems like every song is about being in prison,
riding in
> their pick up truck, getting drunk or their woman sleeping with the enemy,
his
> sister! Croak! But I do love that food.
>
> Frogzilla
>
> The only good Toad is one flattened like a pancake hit with an eighteen
wheeler
> loaded with recycled Lead fishing sinkers! Hence the origin of the term,
'toad
> in a hole'!
>
>
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