[GreenKeys] Merry Christmas & Happy New Year To ALL

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, too, George, and thank you
so much for all you do, particularly your tireless labor in rescuing 
and redistributing so much TTY gear and especially sharing your 
knowledge so the rest of us may have a chance of keeping our stuff
working! :) 

Eric

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:14:04PM -0800, George B. Hutchison wrote:
> GreenKeyers - - -
> 
> I'm taking the day off from teletype stuff and cooking a 17 pound 
> turkey so all who wander over here today will be able to get 
> stuffed!!
> 
> Tomorrow I will prepare freight/shipping estimates for cartons and 
> cases of tape.
> 
> I will address the machinery issues after the tape considerations 
> are complete.
> 
> All items will be shipped in a form of ARMOR so as to protect the 
> contents.
> 
> The cases were open and beginning to rip so they were emptied and 
> recycled.
> 
> Each shipment will be encased in 1/4" plywood floor underlayment 
> which is relatively cheap and tough. I know I would  want my stuff 
> to be resistant to a fleet of knuckle-draggers, and so yours will be 
> to the best of my ability, tempered with expedience.
> 
> Enough of this.
> 
> Please wish all of the ITTY Editors a gracious Merry Christmas and 
> Happy New Year. I have had a lot on my plate the past month or so, 
> and Tom, Wayne, and a couple of others have kept ITTY the class act 
> that it is.
> 
> A big HOORAH for Tom Tillson and his efforts at what is rapidly 
> becoming famous, The Tom Tillson Teletype Picture Show that he has 
> been running.
> 
> I would dearly love to find any archive that might have a copy of 
> some of those astounding Associated Press and United Press 
> Interrnational Christmas, New years, and Thanksgiving picture runs 
> they used to do back in the days of the machines. Those ran 
> literally all day and night over the radio and newspaper wires, and 
> were sometimes fifty to sixty feet long, all one continuous picture.
> 
> Boy, those were the days!!!
> 
> And in all seriousness, let us not forget our service people who are 
> stationed in the hell hole called the middle east. I sometimes 
> wonder why we send our young to places like that when cantankerous 
> old farts such as myself who have had relatively decent lives are 
> more than willing to deal with the bath towel set. I dunno..
> 
> Take care, all, and one more decidedly political incorrectness goes 
> to you with  A MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANNUKA(SP?), and HAPPY NEW 
> YEAR.
> 
> George (and Paula) - W7TTY
> 
> 
> 
> 
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