[Boatanchors] Yes, Sunday HCI Ether Egg Hunt!

[david knepper]

The best and only way to celebrate Easter is by going to Church to celebrate 
the Passover of our Lord and Savior.

Dave, W3ST
Publisher of the Collins Journal
Secretary to the Collins Radio Association
www.collinsra.com - the CRA Website
Now with PayPal
CRA Nets: 3805 Khz every Monday at 8 PM EST
and 14255 every Saturday at 12 Noon EST
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W8DBF D.B. Fischer" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:04 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Yes, Sunday HCI Ether Egg Hunt!


>
>
> Sunday April 16th: Happy Easter! If you celebrate it, do make it a safe,
> joyous and happy family event. Remember: candy is dandy, but boat anchors
> won't rot your teeth! If you do not celebrate Easter, then have a 
> fantastic
> weekend doing whatever you are doing.
>
> Send your request for the Easter Rabbit trail tale to me -
>
> ALERT! The Sunday HCI 20 meter Net will START early and END early today!
> Read on, you'll find out.
>
> Pre-Net: 12:30 - 1:14 PM EDT, (1630-1714 UTC)
>
> The Real Deal Net: 1:15 - 2:30 PM EDT, (1715-1830 UTC)
>
> Frequency: 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the pitter
> patter of little paws running for all the fur they are worth to escape a
> throng of overstressed children full of sugar to the brim and wound up 
> like
> an eight day clock with a confused CoCo who pops out on the quarter, half
> and hour and hurls his song into the silence thus splitting asunder the
> ether with a thunderous belch that would make the mythical Paul Bunyaall 
> and
> his famed Blue Ox Babe Yareallybluit proud! I don't know what they put in
> those jellybeans, but it kicks in a child's afterburners and once their 
> feet
> touch the turf they keep on moving until their shoes blow out an innersole
> and they crash into your most expensive china shattering it into more
> fragments than Right-Aid will sell bottles of anti-barf and anti-diarrhea
> meds today for the Sugar Shack Tummy Slammer Syndrome! Or simply drain 
> their
> fuel cell more dry than a Martini made by a blind bartender who got his
> Braille laundry list and beverage mix list confused and discovered too 
> late
> what not to blow dry on high!
>
> Hint: Never let your child take their pet to a neighbor's house where they
> refer to their pet as "lunch"!
>
> Big Hint: You know somebody in your family is having a truly bad Easter 
> when
> he tries to put the colored Easter eggs back into the chicken! Bites the
> ears off the live bunny your daughter got from Aunt Zelda! Sticks a
> CadiumBerry egg under the live chick your niece got for Easter and bets 
> you
> ten bucks if he keeps the baby chick nice and warm with his butane lighter
> that the egg will hatch! Then gutts out your son's piccolo and tries to 
> use
> it as a blow gun to shoot jellybeans across the patio into the punch bowl
> while humming the theme to the Bugs Moron Rabbit movie!
>
> Observation: As a child I sure do not recall the grass in my Easter basket
> smelling like freshly laid asphalt in the driveway! Nor did the jellybeans
> leave colored stains on my tongue that won't come off! The chocolate 
> bunnies
> did not do a slow melt down within fifteen minutes of exposure to room air
> and end up as a bittersweet puddle with a button nose and two eyes made 
> out
> of Anthracite! My Easter card did not contain a debit card and my Easter 
> egg
> hunt did not require a portable GPS unit equipped with a yoke sensor and a
> paint ball pistol to mark each egg I found by giving it a simulated bruise
> then blowing it in half!
>
> Just try to explain to your children or grandchildren why everything they
> pick up says "made in China" and those anamatronic creatures that roam the
> room on battery or radiant energy solar cell power all make noises like 
> you
> ain't never heard before!
>
> Hear you later today! Remember bite the chocolate rabbit's ears off first,
> it is the American male thing to do! Never eat the black jelly beans, 
> called
> Anice! Send them to me for taste testing! If you can dribble the colored
> Easter egg off the hardwood floor, you've got the silly putty dummy!
>
> Happy Easter -
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
> NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International
> HCI: http://www.w9wze.org
>
> HHRP Historic Video/Audio link? do a search for Halligan video -
>
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