[SOC] Donate to SOC

[peteclough at aol.com]

I do that every time I post. Dont I?





-----Original Message-----
From: Quikhooligan <quikhooligan at yahoo.com>
To: Second Class Operators' Club <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Aug 14, 2010 9:17 pm
Subject: Re: [SOC] Donate to SOC


So I guess this means you won't be donating to SOC?

--- On Sat, 8/14/10, peteclough at aol.com <peteclough at aol.com> wrote:

> From: peteclough at aol.com <peteclough at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Donate to SOC
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 6:48 PM
> 
> Wheuw..
> So. Do you also want to restrict all intercourse to Non
> First Class Amateur Radio operation?
> Unable to do much more than mention that we (Me or I) am
> not up to A1 and do well to SOC.
> 
> Have you created a "NEW O O"?  Instead of Official
> Observer it is the SOC Offensive Offender?
> Sounds as if I will need to park my sense of humor and go
> Bitter and Boring. ... I don't think I can.
> I will  do like when I find a new Net Group on HF..
> LISTEN and Observe until I understand the attitude of the
> group
> and which operators are the Bitter Old Men and which are
> the Dumb New Guys plus Identify the Benign Listener
> Inner's?? 
> Ha.
> Pete C
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quikhooligan <quikhooligan at yahoo.com>
> To: Second Class Operators' Club <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sat, Aug 14, 2010 6:14 pm
> Subject: [SOC] Donate to SOC
> 
> 
> So I'm sitting in the shack with my stimulus money in one
> hand and a double 
> martini in the other hand and reading the latest no-class
> postings to the SOC 
> email reflector. I make an impulsive decision to quit all
> this toxic nonsense 
> and opt-out of the list as all my well respected friends
> are doing. Then I 
> remember that it's better to light a candle than curse the
> darkness. So not only 
> do I decide to stay in the list and continue to set a
> proper example for all the 
> unwashed SOC masses, but I decide to go one step better.
> I'll donate my stimulus 
> money to SOC!
> 
> I knew there had to be a donate button somewhere on the SOC
> website, but those 
> buttons are difficult to find. Now if only I cold remember
> the website address, 
> I might have a chance at finding the "Donate" button. So I
> Google "Donate to 
> SOC" and this is what I found:
> 
> http://www.socent.org/content.cfm?sectionid=9
> 
> 
> And the page says "SOC is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt
> organization. All donations 
> are tax-deductible."  Perfect!!
> 
> 
> So rather than spending the dough on some Chinese made
> 3-500ZG's to replace the 
> soft tubes in my amp and reduce the flat-topping and
> splatter that I'm noted 
> for, I now know that my money is being used for the
> betterment of that glorious 
> SOC organization. I encourage others to also donate (at the
> above link). While 
> I'm sure the SOC organizers will use the money wisely, as
> the donor, I'd like to 
> offer a few suggestions on how it might be spent:
> 
> 1) Purchase a case of Ivory soap and send a bar to anyone
> posting "smut" on the 
> SOC mailing list so that the offensive offender can wash
> their mouth with it.
> 
> 2) Send the offensive offenders a copy of the book "How to
> Win Friends and 
> Influence People"
> 
> 3) Send the offensive offenders a copy of the "Amateur's
> Code" by Paul Segal.
> 
> 4) Order a gross of Wouff Houng replicas from the ARRL to
> be used on the 
> grossest offensive offenders.
> 
> 5) Have a welding shop create a "Rettysnitch" to be used on
> those who persist to 
> be offensive offenders.
> 
> 6) When all else fails, create a secondary moderated
> mailing list.
>  
> 
> 
>       
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