[SOC] The day the music died

Fri Aug 1 01:26:38 EDT 2014

I tell the people that compliment me on my Vibroplex bug sending.

I just tell them, I just waited until all the better guys and gals have
died.  So I'm the only one left.

Lots of truth to that.  I'm also complimented on my handwriting, but in
elementary school (grade school) people - even me - couldn't read my
handwriting.

So I learned italic script figuring if the monks copied Bible pages all day
with it, it would help me.  It did.

I'm still not a beautiful hand, but most can read it, and now the kids
aren't even taught how to write.

73
DR

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:59 AM, <w7dra at juno.com> wrote:

> it is really sad by how much work anything takes.....i get "oh, how i
> wish i could dance like you!" (divorced/widowed 50ish fat), my usual
> reply is "you could have started when you were 14", and "oh, how i wish i
> could play the guitar like you" and i say "you could.........it just
> takes 5 hours a day 5 days a week for 5 years, and then we will see how
> you are doing".
>
>
> remember that freakish long haired sknnny guy that plays the violin in
> the PBS specials? at 4 watched his older brother practice...he decided he
> could do it better than his brother, got lessons from a famous teacher,
> had 10,000 hours in by the time he was 11..................and at 16 they
> called him a child prodigity
>
>
> mike who took 10 years to get his phd
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:20:21 -0700 Louis Axeman <n8la at ymail.com> writes:
> > Huh?  I thought it went, "If at first you don't succeed, QUIT!!!"
> >
> > N8LA
> > Herman Miller Aeron Chair Undistinguished Professor Demeritus of
> > Sitology, Foo Ling U.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, July 28, 2014 2:02 AM, "w7dra at juno.com" <w7dra at juno.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > getting my phd in 1995 taught me something i never knew
> > before......if i
> > try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try
> > and
> > try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try
> > and
> > try and try and try and try and try and then practive and practice
> > and
> > practice and practice and practice i  can get somewhat pretty good
> > at
> > something.
> >
> > mike w7dra (SOC# <1999)
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:32:30 -0400 "D.J.J. Ring, Jr."
> > <n1ea at arrl.net>
> > writes:
> > > Mike,
> > >
> > > Picked last?  I wasn't even picked.  I just cried until someone
> > > yelled
> > > "Your turn to take him, we had him last time."
> > >
> > > I gave up football because I scored touchdowns by running the
> > wrong
> > > way.
> > >
> > > The other team did award me Most Valuable Player when I scored a
> > > winning
> > > goal for them.  My team refused to speak to me.
> > >
> > > 73
> > >
> > > David N1EA
> > > On Jul 27, 2014 12:09 AM, <w7dra at juno.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > i was the guy that always got picked last in sandlot baseball
> > > games, so
> > > > becoming a member of the SOC felt like a real
> > > priviliage.............
> > > >
> > > > mike w7dra
> > > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:11:42 -0500 Quikhooligan via SOC
> > > > <soc at mailman.qth.net> writes:
> > > > > On 7/26/2014 12:58 AM, Radio K0HB wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > We can welcome them into the fraternity as new hams, or we
> > > can
> > > > > sit
> > > > > > around like nasty old curmudgeons and lament that "it wasn't
> >
> > > like
> > > > > this
> > > > > > when I was a pup"
> > > > > I thought SOC stood for "Society of Curmudgeons"
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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