[R-390] YOU DO NOT WANT TO COME TO THE SOUTH

[Robert Moses]

Yankee!

rkofler at aol.com wrote:

>In my opinion, this baloney is way off the topic of this list.
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>Roger
>K7DDG
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>From: Glenn <wa4aos at aol.com>
>To: r-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 12:36 pm
>Subject: [R-390] YOU DO NOT WANT TO COME TO THE SOUTH
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>  Having lived in the South My entire life, I can tell all of you folks 
>not from here this is one more horrible place to live! ! !
>Please don't visit, vacation or otherwise travel to our pitiful corner 
>of the country. The Warm climate and easy access to both mountains and 
>oceans and all of the large lakes loaded with fish,
>  will distract you from listening to the good ole boys on 75-meters.  
>Our close proximity to major interstate highways will only give you 
>reason to get on the road and visit some of our wonderful southern 
>cities, like Atlanta, Columbus,  Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington, 
>Raleigh, Miami, Daytona, Orlando, Birmingham, Huntsville, Knoxville, 
>Nashville, Richmond, Roanoke, Columbia, Myrtle Beach, Louisville, 
>Lexington and many others. Again, decreasing your monitoring time to 
>the aforementioned 75-meter QSO's.
>The plethora of excellent universities, will be of little use to those 
>reading this reflector, anyway, since most readers are above 40 and 
>already FULLY educated..I am speculating here.
>Our friendly and cheerful folks will only allow you to make more 
>friends and once more keep you from monitoring 75-meters.
>
>The amazingly low property taxes we pay here in the pitiful south would 
>only force you to buy more R 390A's, as pretty much all REAL southern 
>Hams own, then you will have to buy a larger house. You are better off 
>just giving those dollars to the tax collectors and not deal with the 
>accululation of radio boxes, boats, tractors, guns and dawgs.
>Our lower land and property prices allow many of us to buy acreage and 
>we have to hassle with towers and beams and quads and antenna farms and 
>cutting grass and having cookouts and in many cases peeing in our front 
>yards and not being seen by anyone..
>
>Many of us in the South are disliked by our current president since 
>most of us own weapons and know how to use them, Most of us do not 
>subscribe to the idea of. "goo to you by way of the zoo,"   thus 
>believing in a higherpower we call GOD, So,  many of us do have guns 
>and Bibles.. That alone makes southerners undesirable folks to mingle 
>with, especially,  if you show up on our properties during the wee 
>hours of the morning to steal our toys. After our Coon's and German 
>Shepard's chase you down and we make target practice of your fanny, we 
>will open the good book and say a few words over your sorry carcass 
>before we feed you to the hogs.
>
>Truly, living here in the south has it's hardships and the extra money 
>we have is a real burden. We have to make decisions like, do I want 40) 
>R 390A's and 20) R 390's or do I want 60) R 390A's and 40) R 390's.. 
>It's rough to live here and you are better off not even thinking about 
>moving to the south as SO MANY of your fellow citizens from the north, 
>in particular,  have already done to escape, high prices, taxes and 
>snow.  Yea, we usually only have enough snow for things to be pretty 
>for 2 or 3 days and then  it goes away.. But, please don't worry about 
>us poor ole southerners; we have our crosses to bear and we do the best 
>we can..
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>We don't have Boston baked beans and we don't know our tax collectors 
>by name but we are getting by.. Please stay in your neck of the woods 
>and don't curse yourself with our hardships..
>
>And to North Carolina Tom.... Tom I am still waiting on your inventory, 
>( 4-years now,) of over 100) R 390A's. I am catching up with a combined 
>count of 122 pieces Combination's of R 390, 390A, 391, 392 and 389's..
>What can I say, it's rough to live here in the SOUTH ! ! !
>
>Glenn WA4AOS
>DSM LABS
>Laurens, SOUTH CAROLINA
>w w w dot d s m l a b s dot c o m
>864 684 2956
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