[SOC] SOC and Woody Allen

Tue Jan 12 19:19:20 EST 2010

I love it !!!

On Jan 12, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:

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> Sorry about the correct comma use.....  73
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> Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 
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>> 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
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>>>> 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!
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>>>> As I declined the invitation from CWops, I hopefully will remain 
>>>> "SOC-ed" and not "FOC-ed".
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>>>> Btw, nice blog, David!
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>>>> Sam HS0ZDY
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>>>> David W6DTW wrote:
>>>>> Hi folks,
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>>>>> Just joined SOC; somehow my application made it through screening. Ha!
>>>>> Joke's on you. My CW is at best 3rd class...
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>>>>> 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. 
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>>>>> http://sparqi.blogspot.com/2010/01/shooting-ourselves-in-foot-amateur.html
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>>>>> 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. 
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>>>>> And in a moment of weakness I sent in my application for membership. Now
>>>>> you're stuck with me. 
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>>>>> Best,
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>>>>> ...dtw
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>>>>> 
>>>>> ---
>>>>> David T. Witkowski
>>>>> w6dtw at arrl.net
>>>>> : Twitter = W6DTW
>>>>> : IRLP = 3802
>>>>> : Echolink = 314933
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