[Heathkit] HCI Saturday Net Frozen In Time

[Tracy]

Duane,

You have to stop trying to tune yourself for 40 meters the RF is starting
to effect you!

'73  Tracy


At 11:29 PM 2/21/2003 -0500, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>
>	
>Yo Humans!	
>	
>It's me. Frogzilla. I come bearing bad tidings of great joy. So stop stuffing
>your chubby cheeks with that sea food from a fast fat roll place poisoned by
>preservatives used by the ancient Egyptians to preserve their dead Kings and
>pets, and listen up! And that goes for you vegetarians stuffing down the
>buttered squash and blanched lima beans too! If you think that diet is
going to
>keep you from getting more wrinkles than a sun dried California prune, think
>again! What you will get is the look of an over pruned Philodendron with too
>little water and way too much chlorophyll! Croak! I am working my webbed toes
>off trying to defrost the blind dude who got unusually stupid, thought he
was a
>hearty Norse Arctic explorer and ventured out in a howling blizzard on a
quest
>to get his daily dose of junk mail. Well, at least that is what his family
>thought. 	
>	
>Actually, his Braille edition of Playboy was delivered and he was
determined to
>retrieve it before the snow, sleet or thieving neighborhood teenage boys
>destroyed the magazine. A noble, but incredibly dumb gesture. He made it
out to
>the mailbox, a distance of eighty-five feet, or twenty-six meters for the
normal
>math impaired, and was half way back when he froze up solid in mid stride
like a
>piston rod in a four cycle snow blower engine that somebody forgot to put oil
>in! We found him face down in the swirling snow stiffer than an over starched
>bra with that patented goofy smirk frozen on his lips. His White Cane was
>impaled in a snow drift like a flag pole planted by explorers claiming the
North
>Pole for Santa Claus. There was enough frost on his tinted shades to keep
Jack
>Frost busy etching designs for two decades! 		
>	
>I was about to crack the Double Bubble gum seal on his Last Will And
Testament,
>when the paramedics announced he still had a pulse. I really wanted to
know if
>he willed me the frog pond or if I was going to have to become a real estate
>agent and swindle his relatives out of it. Besides his grandson Brandon was
>threatening to carve me into frog fillets with his Swiss army knife and
boil my
>green hide in a Long Jon Slivers deep fryer filled with used motor oil. 	
>	
>If they can get the blind dude defrosted in time, the Saturday February
22nd HCI
>40 meter Net will commence with the pre-Net at 12:30 PM EST, (1730 UTC).
The Net
>proper at 1:00 PM EST, (1800 UTC). If you can't read a watch, get
creative, call
>the local number to get the time on your landline! Croak! The frequency
will be
>7.280 Mhz lsb and I don't give a Lizard's rump scales if I have to key the
mike
>myself and sing Happy Birthday to old George Washington in frog part harmony.
>That is enough to curdle the water in any swamp and if the humans
squatting on
>the frequency don't get the hint to move, I will fire up this big linear
>amplifier under the operating desk and blow the front end out of their solid
>state rice roasters!	
>	
>So join us, if you can, and we will have some fun helping old George eat his
>English crumb cake topped with cherries from the tree he chopped down,
wash it
>down with some White Lightning from those hills of Tennessee and let Bill
>Halligan, Sr. know that he may be gone from the third rock from old Sol,
but he
>ain't forgotten! Croak! And if the USAF needs some hot missles to cool
down that
>dude in Iraq with bad gas, we've got hundreds of these flaming candles to
>dispose of somewhere anyhow! Guaranteed to give any Camel a hot hump!
Croak!    
>
>	
>Frogzilla
>	
>
>
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