[Hallicrafters] Ether Egg Hunt During Sunday HCI Net!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

For those who celebrate Easter, let me wish you a most blessed, joyous and
reflective day. For those who do not, feel free to viciously bite the head off a
chocolate bunny with the protective foil still on or join the local jelly bean
spitting for distance contest. In either case, have a great Sunday.   	
	
Rumor has it, that Frogzilla himself is traveling with the Ether Bunny this
year. Which means, you should candle any egg that exited the south end of a
chicken, got hard boiled like Aunt Ruela's pot roast and then was dipped in
'safe' coloring solution that makes fire engine red look like pale pink with a
blush! He has been known to hand paint jelly beans to confuse human taste buds
into believing that lime green is supposed to taste like cinnamon and that
purple is supposed to taste like sour lemon. But when he starts stuffing those
raw Tortoise eggs into the Cadbury egg wrappers, it is fun to watch humans take
a big bite in front of their family, get this big delicious smile on their face,
turn more white than Casper the ghost and then hurl into the pot containing the
Easter Lily! Worst of all, is the pamphlet he leaves in farm children's baskets
telling them how to stuff the Easter eggs back into the chickens!        	
	
Join me for the April 20th Easter Sunday HCI 20 meter Net. The doctors said that
if I promise to stay on my medications, and avoid sharp objects like silverware,
I can come home for the weekend. The pre-Net will commence at 12:45 PM EDT,
(1645 UTC), with a short video clip of a city park in downtown Buffalo where
children participating in an Easter egg hunt got a whiff of jelly bean scented
sewer gas and started flinging the hard boiled eggs at park rangers patrolling
on a golf cart decorated to look like a giant rabbit with front teeth large
enough to make a Beaver on steroids proud! Even if you can't see the clip on
your vintage Hallicrafters TV, you will get a rush out of the audio!     	
	
The Net proper will begin at 1:15 PM EDT, (1715 UTC), with the Dixie Chicks
singing a stirring rendition of "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" while sniffing
Helium to give their voices that ether sound. 	
	
The frequency will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
happy sound of billions of tooth decay germs dancing like they had Mexican
jumping beans in their boxer shorts as millions of children devour enough
chocolate covered marshmallow rabbits to fill up the Grand Canyon! Never trust a
neighbor who gets their kids a live bunny for Easter and names it 'Lunch'!   	
	
Remember, Easter Sunday is the day when a name will be randomly drawn from the
Hallicrafters hat, originally stolen by a former employee who snatched it from
the visitor display area during a mock fire drill, and the winning name to
receive a beautiful like new original Hallicrafters log book donated by W0BBC,
Mike Chatfield. You must be present to win! If NCS can not hear you, nor can
anyone relay your call to the NCS, then e-mail me or call me on the tx. 	
	
I hope to hear many of you on Easter Sunday to commemorate the wonders of those
things that still go glow in the dark. And I am not speaking about irradiated
eggs from experiments done by the government in the fifties! Remember it is in
bad taste to bite the face off the chocolate rabbit or bite off the extremities
first! But it is permissible to bite off the ears one at a time and then break
the chocolate bunny in half and dunk it in hot coffee or hot chocolate before
cramming it into your mouth. And remember to not set that handful of assorted
jelly beans on top of the Hallicrafters rig, unless you wish to give the phrase
'melt down' a new meaning!  	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International