[Kenwood] INDIGNITY

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:28:40 -0700 (PDT)

I'm sure there has been a French humorist that has
written something about the USA just as "humorous". 
So let's get on with Ham Radio!!

How about those Kenwood radios!!
73,
Bill
--- "Leigh S. Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I honestly don't believe that Jean will accept our
> explanations of
> Tim's Mark Twain quotations.  He'll attribute those
> comments to Tim
> regardless of the facts; he'll continue to take
> umbrage at what was,
> after all, one of the lightest and least offensive
> comments that Mark
> Twain had regarding France and Frenchmen.
> 
> I should point out that my own opinions on the
> French are different
> from those of Samuel Clemens, but this is what he
> really thought,
> written, as you can plainly see, many years prior to
> my own birth:
> 
> Mark Twain on Americans in France
> 
> "The people of those foreign countries are very,
> very ignorant. They
> looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from
> the wilds of
> America. They observed that we talked loudly at the
> table sometimes.
> They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got
> what we
> conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered
> where in the mischief
> we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their
> eyes and stared
> when we spoke to them in French! We never did
> succeed in making those
> idiots understand their own language."
> 
> --Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jdraughn" <[email protected]>
> To: "jean raynaud" <[email protected]>;
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 6:18 AM
> Subject: RE: [Kenwood] INDIGNITY
> 
> 
> > Jean,
> > In your response you stated that,
> >
> > "Tim Randa, K0FL, wrote :
> > "France has neither winter, nor summer, nor
> morals. France is
> miserable
> > because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen
> are miserable
> because
> > they live in France" Mark Twain."
> >
> > This is not true. Tim actually wrote,
> >
> > "I've just acquired a #95 1.8 ssb filter made by
> Inrad for my
> TS-570DG.
> > The instructions say to clip off two of the 5 pins
> on one side
> stating
> > they are ground pins and are not needed even for
> the "kenwood
> filter"
> > (singular). My question is if this will effect
> ether the cw or ssb
> > kenwood filters if they are reinstalled instead of
> the inrad?
> >
> > 73 de Tim  KOFL"
> >
> > Talk about something being taken out of context...
> >
> > The tag line is just a quote, meaning that someone
> else actually
> wrote it
> > and to say that "Tim Randa, K0FL, wrote :"
> > the quote is far from being an accurate statement.
> >
> > "Must I understand that you all  approve such
> attacks ?"
> > I don't think anyone saw it as an "attack" we saw
> it as a question
> > about an Inrad filter. Nothing more!
> >
> > My suggestion is lighten up and don't make a
> mountain out of a mole
> hill.
> >
> > Besides when an American decides to attack
> something or someone
> there is
> > little doubt that an attack has taken place. I
> just don't see it in
> this
> > case.
> > Regards,
> > Jeff, N0OST
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> jean raynaud
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:56 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Kenwood] INDIGNITY
> >
> >
> > on 22-07-2003,  Tim Randa, K0FL, wrote :
> > "France has neither winter, nor summer, nor
> morals. France is
> miserable
> > because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen
> are miserable
> because
> > they live in France" Mark Twain.
> > I am SAD ... Not because of the quotation, it
> doesnt make any sense
> out of
> > its context, but because EVERYBODY left it pass
> without reaction,
> even the
> > moderator.
> > Must I understand that you all  approve such
> attacks ?
> > And what have they to do with Kenwood ?
> >
> > F8RZ
> >
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> >
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Bill Smith KO4NR

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