[GreenKeys] Boiled Owls?

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 11:56 PM 8/1/2017, Mark Hall wrote:
>In the 2017 RTTY Roundup Results there are club listings. Under the 
>"Medium" category is a listing for the "Order of Boiled Owls of New 
>York". For some weird reason this made me aerosol a mouthful of 
>coffee and cackle! I don't know whether these folk do RTTY the old 
>fashioned or new-fangled way but it made me think if a number of us 
>got together as a club effort to do this, we would merit a unique 
>name. If for nothing more than doing it all the hard way. "Boiled 
>Owls" seems a bit tough, but... any ideas?

Boiled Owls referred to the old ham habit of being on the air past 
midnight into the wee hours of the morning..
Don't know about "boiled," but they sure were exhausted. :-)

Perry    w8au