[CW] Re: CW Digest, Vol 56, Issue 14

[Ron Zond]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all on the reflector.

As a sometime traffic handler, I usually get MC or HNY. My second
incarnation as a traffic handler began
in 2001, and at Christmas, I was hearing MC and later, HNY. Nice
abbreviations when you're chugging
along at 25+ wpm. NO one has yet sent HH (Happy Holidays) or SG (Season's
Greetings).

Ron
K3MIY
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  Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 10:28 AM
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  Subject: [CW] Re: CW Digest, Vol 56, Issue 14


  Merry Christmas to you, Ron!
  I think we are thankfully and finally seeing a reversal (if not
"backlash") to the crappola that the B.S.ers have been feeding us and I
noticed as little as a couple years ago everyone wished everyone else
generic, politically correct "Happy Holidays" type sentiments on CW. Since
Thanksgiving I have been keeping a tally sheet just for fun. Since then I
have logged 82 CW QSOs. Of those, 76 expressly wished me a "Merry Christmas"
while the remaining 6 either used generic holiday greetings or said nothing
at all. Though I didn't keep any tally in previous years, I am certain the
generic-to-Christmas greeting ratio would have been the complete opposite.
I've noticed even the store clerks are abandoning the sterile "Happy
Holidays" and are taking the bold step to wish customers "Merry Christmas."

  Isn't it ridiculous? As a society we are so screwed up. This should not
even be something that invades our consciousness.

  The store Musak still is playing the same infernal generic holiday tunes
(Like many, I'd like to shoot the guy that wrote
  "Jingle Bell Rock" !). Imagine how chagrinned the simple-minded social
engineers will be when they learn that "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is
actually a very religious tune written during an era in human culture when
freedom of religious belief was oppressed as they wish ours to be today.

  I've been using the CW prosign, "58" extensively...however I add "Merry
Christmas" just to make sure there is no misunderstanding of what my
expression is to convey.

  58 and Merry Christmas,

  Vern WA9VLK


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