[PPRAANet] Let's play Looney Bin

Tue Jan 16 13:10:25 EST 2007

Okay, so someone didn't like the original author's sense of humor--THAT IS WHAT THE DELETE KEY IS FOR!!!

Dick, I am one of the non-players who gets hit over the head by the 2kg stick all of the time.  I thought the piece was funny and food for thought.  There isn't one of us who keys up who hasn't hit someone over the head at least once.  Most of us have sense enough to apologize and move on.  Sorry to hear that there is someone with enough time to respond in an unkind way.

73, 
de Sharon
KC0PBR

--
Reputation equals character minus 
what you have been caught doing.

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dick Thompson" <w0raa at w0raa.com>
> Does anybody know who Mark Richardson is?  I sent out a short piece on let's 
> play looney bin and I got the following response from him (see below).  I 
> asked him why he found it in poor taste and he has his e-mail blocked with a 
> spam filter from peoplepc.com, so he has to approve anything that comes to 
> him.  I'd sure hate to live like that.  I doubt if he's a ham, but who 
> knows.  If anybody knows who he is, I'd appreciate a note off the reflector 
> to tell me.  All I want to know is what he found offensive about it.    I 
> guess he gets a lot of junk from people.  Mike Anderson and Jim Harris have 
> said they don't know who he is, and the guy is so paranoid about something 
> that he doesn't use a call sign.
> 
> He has his opinion of course, but, other than silly or humorous (especially 
> to people who like to contest on the air) I can't figure out what is in bad 
> taste.  His is the first negative response I have received about it, and was 
> just curious.  Obviously he doesn't like contesting or doesn't participate 
> in anything other than reading e-mail.
> 
> Dick
> W0RAA
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Richardson" <markyr at peoplepc.com>
> To: "Dick Thompson" <w0raa at w0raa.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [PPRAANet] Let's play Looney Bin
> 
> 
> > Extremely bad and tasteless analogy.
> > find something else to do with your time.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >>From: Dick Thompson <w0raa at w0raa.com>
> >>Sent: Jan 15, 2007 3:24 PM
> >>To: PPRAA Reflector <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>
> >>Subject: [PPRAANet] Let's play Looney Bin
> >>
> >>Thought you folks would enjoy the following, if you're into contesting.
> >>
> >>Dick
> >>W0RAA
> >>
> >>___________________________________________________
> >>
> >>Let's Play "Looney Bin"!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Have you heard about the latest game?  It's called "Looney Bin".  You 
> >>could
> >>call it "Multiple Insanity", "Super Stupidity", or whatever you want, but
> >>here is how it is played:
> >>
> >>
> >>All the players - and there is a great many of them - gather in a large
> >>confined area, which is also occupied by people who are NOT playing 
> >>"Looney
> >>Bin".  Each player arms himself with a club, the size of which is limited 
> >>by
> >>regulations of the game to one kilogram (that's 2.2 lbs.).  Some players 
> >>use
> >>a hinged club, the effect of which is to transmit additional energy, so 
> >>that
> >>their clubs are the equivalent of 2 kilograms - sometimes called "2KG peak
> >>effective power."
> >>
> >>
> >>The game has an announced starting time, at which time the players - and
> >>there are a great many of them, as we said - proceed to attract the
> >>attention of other players by hitting them over the head with their clubs.
> >>As the area where the game is played is usually crowded, a great many who
> >>are NOT players get hit over the head with one kilogram, which they do not
> >>like at all.
> >>
> >>
> >>The objective of the game is to see how many players can be hit over the
> >>head with one's one kilogram club.  Each player must keep a record, called 
> >>a
> >>log (not to be confused with the club, which is a small log of another
> >>type).  The best players can hit other players over the head with their 
> >>club
> >>while keeping their log with the other hand.  Upon being hit over the 
> >>head,
> >>a player announces (a) how sharp the blow was, rated on a 1 to 5 scale; 
> >>and
> >>(b) the pressure of the blow, rated on a 1 to 9 scale.  Thus, upon being
> >>struck, the player shouts "5-9", and proceeds to exchange blows with the
> >>player who has just bounced his club off the first player's head.
> >>Obviously, it takes a pretty hard head to play this game, but after
> >>partaking in a number of such contests, one's head becomes almost 
> >>impervious
> >>to the blows.  Many players drop their participation in such events, of
> >>course, since they see no point to either being hit on the head, or
> >>exercising violence upon others.
> >>
> >>Some parts of the playing area are more accessible than others, and the 
> >>real
> >>challenge to a player is to hit the more remotely located players.  When
> >>everybody ties to do this, what is known as a "pile-up" occurs, with 
> >>dozens
> >>of players being hit over the head at once, and hardly anyone ever hitting
> >>the head of the player at which he had taken aim.  Such "pile-ups" are 
> >>very
> >>frustrating, and many players have abandoned the game because of them. 
> >>The
> >>winner of the game is the player who has swung his club most effectively,
> >>hitting more players on the head than anyone else, and in more areas of 
> >>the
> >>playing space.  Indeed, it is considered a great achievement to have hit
> >>people on the head in every square foot of the playing area!
> >>
> >>
> >>A ticklish situation has developed as a result of so many games of "Looney
> >>Bin" being played in the playing area.  Indeed, some group or other is
> >>sponsoring a game almost every weekend.  The people who don't like to play
> >>"Looney Bin" actually outnumber by far those who are avid "Loonie's." 
> >>But,
> >>when the non-players object to filling up the large confined area, of 
> >>which
> >>we spoke, with club wielding "loonies", the objectors are called - of all
> >>things - "soreheads".  If their heads are sore, it is pretty obvious what
> >>made them so.
> >>
> >>
> >>The game is played rougher in some parts of he country than in others.
> >>Cheating consists primarily of using a heavier club than the 1 kilogram
> >>rules allow.  In California, it is said, clubs weighing several
> >>kilograms -as much as 18 kilograms having been reported - are sometimes
> >>used, and the hit other players' heads very, very hard.  They hit
> >>non-players just as hard, and some non-players would like to abolish 
> >>"Looney
> >>Bin" once and for all.  How about you?
> >>
> >>
> >>W8AP
> >>
> >>
> >>(The above was sent in by K3WS and is taken from "Auto-Call" (Washington,
> >>D.C.) April 1971.  He writes, "There is a lesson here . but I'm not sure
> >>what it is!  By the way, W8AP is not anti-contest and is frequently in 
> >>there
> >>with the rest of us.")
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