[SOC] Harry Hewitt

[Jan Clute]

I won't tell you where I stand politically, nor can I think of a
"ham-related issue" about which I have burning curiosity, but since we have
all of these English-speakers from different parts of the world, tell me, if
you will, where you would use "whilst," "amongst," "whinge," "lorry,"
"flat," and "verti-comma" (sic?). I could come up with others, but these
just don't exist in orthodox Yank (college-educated American who has lived
all over the country and briefly (three years) in Germany , even more
briefly in Hawaii (two years), but mostly in southern California, eastern
Iowa, and eastern Massachusetts (long story). Also, since satellite
television has appeared on the scene, I have noted that sports commentators
in English-speaking countries are uniformly fatuous and boring, but their
vocabularies vary in intriguing ways. "Nil", for instance, does not exist in
sports-Yank, but is near-universal in sports-Brit (on the BBC, anyway) (my
wife has complained about sports reportage on the radio, but I did not know
what she meant (or how fully she meant it) until I heard endless Cricket
reporting on the BBC one evening. The sound of my head smacking the table
woke me from a refreshing nap). Our differences perhaps only highlight our
general similarities, but I notice these language thingies, and I've been
meaning to ask "you lot" (doesn't exist in Yank, that phrase, by the way).
Thanks, 73 Jan N0AAA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis" <ve3vg at sympatico.ca>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Harry Hewitt


> A ham radio related topic ??
> Dont hold your breath.....
> as for Harry, lets cut him a little slack....
> he's a kid, and kids sometimes make questionable decisions...
> (when you were a kid, you were told not to drink till you puked, but you
> went and did it anyway)...
> I had a 40M loop till they built a house next door... worked pretty
good...
>
> 73 - 72 - "OO"
> Dennis - ve3vg at sympatico.ca
> "CW from the Great White North"
> "give me ambiguity or give me something else"
> FP-512, WATPK 7,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Besemer (WM4B)" <mwbesemer at cox.net>
> To: "'Second Class Operators' Club'" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:38 AM
> Subject: RE: [SOC] Harry Hewitt
>
>
> > Concur!
> >
> > I realize that with only 29 years in the hobby I'm a relative youngster,
> but
> > I was taught that Ham Radio was a place that was supposed to be devoid
of
> > politics and inflammatory opinions.  Ham radio has no borders and it
> > shouldn't have a political party, religion, color, race, gender, etc.
> > either.
> >
> > I certainly have my own strong personal opinions about everything that's
> > going on in the world, but the ham shack is the one place I can go to
have
> a
> > 'Calgon moment', that takes me away from it all.
> >
> > Let's get back to being SOC.  I can't remember the last good ham radio
> > discussion we had here!
> >
> > 72/3/4 to all,
> >
> > Mike
> > WM4B
> > Kathleen, GA
> >
> >
> > P.S.  Okay... in hopes of generating a new thread... is anybody out
there
> > using a horizontal loop on 80 or 160?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On
> > Behalf Of W2AGN
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:15 AM
> > To: Makos327 at worldnet.att.net; Second Class Operators' Club
> > Subject: Re: [SOC] Harry Hewitt
> >
> > On Thursday 13 January 2005 23:11, Larry Makoski W2LJ wrote:
> > > Todd Butler wrote:
> > > > OPINION ON:
> > > >
> > > > I, for one, would rather have a personal explanation (now that no
> > > > Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found in Iraq) why we went to
> > > > King George's War, why 1357 members of the armed forces have died,
and
> > > > exactly how the United States has no exit strategy from the
occupation
> > > > of a country that does not necessarily want us.  Why does this war
on
> > > > terror look more and more like Vietnam every day?  Even to the
extent
> > > > that "W" decided to not serve in Vietnam, but places others in
harm's
> > > > way for the sake of keeping Middle East Oil flowing to the world.
> > > >
> > > > OPINION OFF
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Todd    N0NCL
> > >
> > > I though this was a place I could come to escape all this political
BS!
> > >
> > > Count me as unsubscribing - if I want this, I'll go watch cnn, abc,
nbc
> > > and cBS
> > >
> > > W2LJ - QRT
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I wholeheartedly agree with Larry. Seems this has become the Liberal's
> List.
> >
> > That is WAY beneath Second Class!
> >
> >
> > --
> > John W2AGN
> > http://w2agn.net
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