[Fists] Quiz Answer !!!
Cheryl W. Ring
[email protected]
Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:42:37 -0400
A while ago David suggested a "Key of the Year" club which produced a key a
year by subscription. Say everyone sent in $15.00 - they would receive a
beautiful key by the December holidays. I would love a key for Christmas!
This year (in my imagination only!) we are making the "Fred Adsit Cootie
key" - a genuine 24k gold plated stiff whip hacksaw spring key with a lovely
mini-Oreo cookie for a finger piece" - which comes with accessory leather
sack filled with regular size Oreo cookies with a name tag clipping the bag
closed: Fred's Cookies - ask first!
There - you now have a Virtual Cootie! (with a Fred Cookie)
CW Ring
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Adsit" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] Quiz Answer !!!
> Yup, was definitely mulling that lefty business over.. great to have that
> ability, a switch-hitter. My dad was 100% ambidextrous but unfortunately I
> didn't inherit that and am farsighted and he was nearsighted, but he Was
> my Dad.
>
> Now, having won, do three of us get a memento? Nawwww. It was fun figuring
> it out. I had that same experience with my SK Navy uncle's Vibroplex - he
> made a plastic paddle and it was a delight. I broke the thing - it had
> cracks in it from age - and I wound up with a second flat paddle on the
> right side. The spacing is a bit closer than the fiber paddles on the Les
> Logan I used for so many years, but it still feels better than the knob. I
> know this - I doubt I will ever be able to key as well as David does..
>
> I read (Pierpont's well chosen term for head-copying) as high as 60 wpm
> when I sit and listen long enough, but never sent over 35-40 wpm, and
> prefer in older age to hang around at about 27 wpm from the speed so many
> NTS traffic handlers seem to groove into, esp. those who write messages
> with a pen instead of using a Mill. And that is another whole subject.
> Nothing compares with a Real Mill. Nothing. Lotsa fun.
>
> 73 -- Fred NY2V
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cheryl W. Ring
> To: Fred Adsit ; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected] ; [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fists] Quiz Answer !!!
>
>
> CONGRATULATIONS - WE HAVE ANOTHER WINNER.
>
> CONGRATULATIONS TO FRED ADSIT.
>
> Fred, you're absolutely correct. I got things reversed - but then got
> them
> correct - no wonders everyones is confoozed.
>
> Here's what happened - what I wrote at the beginning was a "cut and paste"
> quote from Greg Moore - and he is a lefty!
>
> I used GW's comments - he has them reversed - he being a lefty, and I just
> cut and pasted it - and then added my own comments - so you are correct.
> The thumb piece is the paddle. Lots of guys who are Southpaw didn't spend
> the extra money to buy a "lefty" bug - and now a days they don't even make
>
> them.
>
> BUT to make it even more confusing - when I type the answer on my own, I
> get
> it right! I mean correct, I mean I dind't confooze my left paw with my
> right mitt.
>
> HERE!!!
>
> On the Vibroplex the finger piece is like a hand key knob - and like a
> door
> knob, the thumb piece looks just like a little paddle that you could
> paddle
> your canoe with.
>
> SEE??? -- I got that part right!
>
> I should have added - the finger piece looks like the button on a pair of
> Levi's Blue Jeans!
>
> Thanks Fred!
>
> Your email obviously was enroute (see below) while the answer was being
> announced but due to delay in Yahgoo wasn't posted yet, so we will give
> you
> credit.
>
> 73
>
> Cheryl and David Ring - KB0RQN and N1EA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fred Adsit
> To: Cheryl W. Ring
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fists] Quiz Answer !!!
>
>
> AHA. I just got on FISTS which I have been deleting. Excuse me, but the
> paddle is on the left and is the thumb piece. The finger is used to make
> dits and is on the right and that is the buttton. Are you telling me that
> a
> Vibroplex is backwards. Read your answer below carefully. It is backwards.
> I
> sent a guess direct and was correct. Why would a button be the paddle and
> the paddle be a button. See the red below. By golly my wild guess was
> correct, in any event. I didn't send it to FISTS tho. Have been ignoring
> FISTS for several days and am baaaackkkk. :-) Talk about confusion!!
>
> Fred Adsit NY2V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cheryl W. Ring
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:56 PM
> Subject: [Fists] Quiz Answer !!!
>
>
> Two correct answers: From Greg Moore and Tom French!
>
> The thumb piece was called either a "button" - which is the word that
> both
> of them came up with - or a knob - which I believe is the more common.
>
> The finger piece is called a "paddle" - which is the one I thought no
> one
> would get!
>
> On the Vibroplex the finger piece is like a hand key knob - and like a
> door
> knob, the thumb piece looks just like a little paddle that you could
> paddle
> your canoe with.
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> McElroy, who was a telegrapher, referred to the "thumb
> paddle" and the "dash button."
>
> Tom
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> OK, the "thumb piece" was the "button" and the "finger piece" was the
> REALLY???
> "paddle".
>
> Now, back in the '60s when my Lightning Bug slid off the table at
> sea,
> (NO, I wasn't transmitting at the time) and busted the finger piece, I
> removed both, and made up a large paddle out of a piece of discarded
> plexiglas. That makeshift paddle was SO comfortable, I kept it with
> the
> key all these years, used it happily, and only removed it (actually
> Vibroplex did, and returned it to me) when I had the bug completely
> restored last year.
> 73
> GW
>
>
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