[SOC] Peas

[Merlin Williams]

Fred Jensen wrote:
>  > 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]
>
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The past week has been really interest. I think a number of SOC members 
have contracted CABIN FEVER, as those of us up here in the north land, 
Minnesota call. It is only three more months to spring here. Keep it up 
guys.  It is good to read top quality intellectual postings again. It 
appears that SOC postings are returning to the high standards we had 
come to expect over the years. Any body got any new Blond Jokes.

73-Merlin #575 (I hope)