[SOC] SOC and Woody Allen

[Charles Harpole]

You, an SOC, are not supposed to know that.... AND, you are supposed to correct fellow SOCers with information that is, in itself, an error.

 

Sorry about the correct comma use.....  73



Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 

 

 




 
> From: bhemmis at mac.com
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:00:13 -0500
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SOC] SOC and Woody Allen
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> Actually it was Groucho Marx...
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> On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
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> > Woody said it best, and because this is the SOC, I will repeat the joke about not wanting to be a member of any club that
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> > would have me as a member...... 73,
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> > Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 
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> >> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:30:36 +0700
> >> From: sm3dyu at ji-net.com
> >> To: w6dtw at arrl.net; soc at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: Re: [SOC] SOC #896
> >> 
> >> Our "Big Brother FOC" seems to be the template for membership in CWops 
> >> and as a matter of fact a number of the so called "Charter members" are 
> >> actually also members of FOC. I was invited to join ranks with the 
> >> Charter members, based on my previous profession as a ships radio 
> >> officer. Needless to say, membership in SOC and CWops do not go together 
> >> well, one sort of defeats the other! Membership in FOC requires that one 
> >> members dies first, so that in essence means that the new member is just 
> >> filling an empty pair of shoes. Not a recommendable way of getting fresh 
> >> blood into ham-radio. If the wait is too long, new aspiring members 
> >> might resort to force!
> >> 
> >> As I declined the invitation from CWops, I hopefully will remain 
> >> "SOC-ed" and not "FOC-ed".
> >> 
> >> Btw, nice blog, David!
> >> 
> >> Sam HS0ZDY
> >> 
> >> 
> >> David W6DTW wrote:
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>> 
> >>> Just joined SOC; somehow my application made it through screening. Ha!
> >>> Joke's on you. My CW is at best 3rd class...
> >>> 
> >>> What brought me here was a couple of things. First off my friend Chris
> >>> K6DBG is a member. Second was that after last week's NAQP contest someone
> >>> was suggesting that I should check out CWops; he apparently didn't actually
> >>> hear me sending code. I was in the process of writing an article entitled
> >>> "Shooting Ourselves In The Foot : Amateur radio's culture of exclusion" and
> >>> the whole CWops membership process was like a gift from God; a perfect
> >>> example of what I was trying to say. 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> http://sparqi.blogspot.com/2010/01/shooting-ourselves-in-foot-amateur.html
> >>> 
> >>> So in contrast to CWops, and knowing about SOC through Chris, I offered you
> >>> folks as an example of the right way to create a community. The Unknown
> >>> Secretary pointed me to the mailing list archive; looks like I'm not the
> >>> only one who has an opinion about CWops. 
> >>> 
> >>> And in a moment of weakness I sent in my application for membership. Now
> >>> you're stuck with me. 
> >>> 
> >>> Best,
> >>> 
> >>> ...dtw
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> ---
> >>> David T. Witkowski
> >>> w6dtw at arrl.net
> >>> : Twitter = W6DTW
> >>> : IRLP = 3802
> >>> : Echolink = 314933
> >>> 
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