[South Florida DX Association] ROCKWELL automation at Dayton

[Kai Siwiak]

Adam,
Since you enjoyed it, I've dug up a nugget recently improved upon by my 
good friend Tom Manning.
Origin is unknown, but I seem to remember a 1970-80-ish version in 
Reader's Digest. Here's Tom's
edited version of the classic:
__________
"Eschew Obfuscation.

In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating
your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical,
or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous
ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess
a compact conciseness, a clarified comprehensibility, a
coalescent cogency and a concatenated consistency.

Eschew obfuscation and all conglomerations of flatulent
garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let
your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations
have intelligibility and voracious vivacity without rodomontade
or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic
profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial
verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres and
pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.

In short: Be brief and don't use big words."
               -edited and quoted by Tom Manning, 2010, original
                source unknown.
_________
Try that in the preamble to a 2-meter net, and be thankful that you
didn't get that on your 20 WPM FCC code exam way back when!

73
Kai, KE4PT




Adam Farson wrote:
> Hi Kai,
>
> A candidate for the  No-Bell Prize in Goomflah?
>
> ("Goomflah" is island dialect for BS, or to use the clinical term, "excreta
> tauri".)
>
> Cheers for now, 73,
> Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Kai Siwiak
> Sent: 23-May-10 07:38
> To: Norman Alexander; SFDXA Reflector
> Subject: Re: [South Florida DX Association] ROCKWELL automation at Dayton
>
> Hey Norm,
> The link should be:
>     http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5125780462773187994#
>
> but it still promulgates obfuscation at a prodigious rate, barely topping
> esoteric cogitations on many 2m repeaters..
>
> -Kai KE4PT
>
> Norman Alexander wrote:
>   
>> Did you miss this at Dayton?
>>
>>
>> A major news story  about ham radio and DXing
>>   
>>  ROCKWELL automation at  Dayton
>> And, this guy is "right on".
>> Rick, WØRIC
>>     
>> While the Elecraft Booth was  jammed at Dayton, this fellow was quietly
>>     
> introducing the world to  an invention that -could- change everything in ham
> radio in a  heartbeat. Company is ROCKWELL automation. Try to keep  up...
>   
>> http://video. google.com/ videoplay?  docid=5125780462 773187994#
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