[SOC] Peas

[Fred Jensen]

 > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:14:08 -0500
 > From: "Mike Besemer \(WM4B\)" <mwbesemer at cox.net>
 > Subject: Re: [SOC] Cricket Bat
 > To: "'Second Class Operators' Club'" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
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 > Nuthin' but peanuts.  Goober peas seems a bit goofy to me, but to
 > dates back to the War of Northern Aggression so I can't argue with
 > the term.
 >
 > We got 'em raw, roasted, boiled and fried.

Hmmm ... while working on a proposal to the Colonies' equivalent of the 
Ministry of Defence for my employer, we were all in a big conference 
room, carpet on the walls, and proposal pages and graphics hanging all 
over them.  The presentation was to be made at Robins AFB in Georgia. 
One of the younger guys who was going on that trip had never been out of 
California and asked me about Georgia, especially the food.  I told him 
I really liked going to Georgia.  People were friendly, they talked 
slowly which really helped me with my crummy hearing, and the food was 
really good.  Summer was great because I'd become addicted to warm, 
humid weather in SE Asia.  "I think, however, there are really only two 
major food groups there ... fried and BBQ."  He didn't believe me.

As the team was doing the final planning for the trip, one of the 
Georgia guys named a place they had to stay at because, "It's next to a 
restaurant that serves the best fried cheesecake in all of middle 
Georgia."  The young guy looked at me, and I said, "I rest my case."

I've had the fried cheesecake, it's great!'

I think I understand the physics of a two-sided cricket bat.  I still 
want to know what a one-sided cricket bat looks like, particularly the 
cross-section.

I am impressed with the SOC-ness of the cricket bat thread [it's really 
more like a "rope" now].  All those quoted messages make for a really 
nice array of vertical lines down the left side, and all the reminders 
from the SOC reflector that are preserved are really nice reminders 
given that my memory has      ...   nuts! forgot what my memory has 
done.  Oh yes, carpet on the walls -- so we could pin up pages on the 
walls.  Well, that's what the white-coated staff told us.

73,

Fred K6DGW
SOC # 633 [not kidding, it's on a post-it note on my monitor]