[Hallicrafters] Yes! HCI Easter Sunday Ether Egg Hunt!

[W8DBF D.B. Fischer]

Sunday April 16th: Happy Easter! If you celebrate it, do make it a safe, 
joyous and happy family event. Remember: candy is dandy, but boat anchors 
won't rot your teeth! If you do not celebrate Easter, then have a fantastic 
weekend doing whatever you are doing.

Send your request for the Easter Rabbit trail tale to me -

ALERT! The Sunday HCI 20 meter Net will START early and END early today! 
Read on, you'll find out.

Pre-Net: 12:30 - 1:14 PM EDT, (1630-1714 UTC)

The Real Deal Net: 1:15 - 2:30 PM EDT, (1715-1830 UTC)

Frequency: 14.293 MHZ usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the pitter 
patter of little paws running for all the fur they are worth to escape a 
throng of overstressed children full of sugar to the brim and wound up like 
an eight day clock with a confused CoCo who pops out on the quarter, half 
and hour and hurls his song into the silence thus splitting asunder the 
ether with a thunderous belch that would make the mythical Paul Bunyaall and 
his famed Blue Ox Babe Yareallybluit proud! I don't know what they put in 
those jellybeans, but it kicks in a child's afterburners and once their feet 
touch the turf they keep on moving until their shoes blow out an innersole 
and they crash into your most expensive china shattering it into more 
fragments than Right-Aid will sell bottles of anti-barf and anti-diarrhea 
meds today for the Sugar Shack Tummy Slammer Syndrome! Or simply drain their 
fuel cell more dry than a Martini made by a blind bartender who got his 
Braille laundry list and beverage mix list confused and discovered too late 
what not to blow dry on high!

Hint: Never let your child take their pet to a neighbor's house where they 
refer to their pet as "lunch"!

Big Hint: You know somebody in your family is having a truly bad Easter when 
he tries to put the colored Easter eggs back into the chicken! Bites the 
ears off the live bunny your daughter got from Aunt Zelda! Sticks a 
CadiumBerry egg under the live chick your niece got for Easter and bets you 
ten bucks if he keeps the baby chick nice and warm with his butane lighter 
that the egg will hatch! Then gutts out your son's piccolo and tries to use 
it as a blow gun to shoot jellybeans across the patio into the punch bowl 
while humming the theme to the Bugs Moron Rabbit movie!

Observation: As a child I sure do not recall the grass in my Easter basket 
smelling like freshly laid asphalt in the driveway! Nor did the jellybeans 
leave colored stains on my tongue that won't come off! The chocolate bunnies 
did not do a slow melt down within fifteen minutes of exposure to room air 
and end up as a bittersweet puddle with a button nose and two eyes made out 
of Anthracite! My Easter card did not contain a debit card and my Easter egg 
hunt did not require a portable GPS unit equipped with a yoke sensor and a 
paint ball pistol to mark each egg I found by giving it a simulated bruise 
then blowing it in half!

Just try to explain to your children or grandchildren why everything they 
pick up says "made in China" and those anamatronic creatures that roam the 
room on battery or radiant energy solar cell power all make noises like you 
ain't never heard before!

Hear you later today! Remember bite the chocolate rabbit's ears off first, 
it is the American male thing to do! Never eat the black jelly beans, called 
Anice! Send them to me for taste testing! If you can dribble the colored 
Easter egg off the hardwood floor, you've got the silly putty dummy!

Happy Easter -

Duane Fischer, W8DBF
NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International
HCI: http://www.w9wze.org

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