On 3 Feb 2006 14:00:07 -0800, "an_old_friend"
wrote:

How long did it take, for crying out loud?

Google the first line ... the truth is out there :-)

indeed parody of the model of a modern major general

Pnezance Ithink but i am a real student of G&S


You are correct ... the Pirates of Penzance. We could call this new
one the Chimp of Chippenham !

Peter, G3PHO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Wescott"

It's even more impressive if you sing it to the tune of "Modern Major
General" -- the penultimate line has to be forced to scan, but the rest
flows nicely.


We are the very model of the modern radio amateur
We like to speak to countries strange while sitting in our arm-a-chair,
Our QSOs with digimodes and microphone are hard earned
(Of course we don't use rubbish like that old morse code we haven't
learned).

We have a whizzy handheld 'coz it makes us look much neater -
Of course we don't use it to talk, just key up the repeater
Except of course when 'breakers' from two streets away give us a shout,
Then we tie it up for hours, forgetting 'bout the time out.

(Then we tie it up for hours, fogetting 'bout the time out.)

We don't know what a dipole is so can't get ourselves on the air
But Echolink and E-QueSo means that we really couldn't care
With every cheaper foreign calls you'd wonder why we bother -
The answer to that mystery still hasn't been discovered.

I think this could be better - but it's Friday night, so time for even me to
go and get a life!

--
73

Gerry G0RTN
Vanity Page at http://www.gerrylynch.co.uk
"In days of old, when ops were bold, and sidebands not invented,
The word would pass, by pounding brass, and all were well contented."

"Orator For Decency" wrote in message
ups.com...

Is "W5EGO" perhaps some for of CB licence - the abusive
personal style quoted below would seem to suggest so.

Please ignore this man. He is derganged.

And he calls everybody a CBer.

--
73

Gerry G0RTN
Vanity Page at http://www.gerrylynch.co.uk
"In days of old, when ops were bold, and sidebands not invented,
The word would pass, by pounding brass, and all were well contented."

Gerard Lynch wrote:
"Orator For Decency" wrote in message
ups.com...

Is "W5EGO" perhaps some for of CB licence - the abusive
personal style quoted below would seem to suggest so.

Please ignore this man. He is derganged.

And he calls everybody a CBer.

Strange, since he is a self confessed CBer... I wonder if he whips himself
with flails before he goes to bed..?

--
huLLy
Tel: 07976 123278
ICQ 136-987-925

Peter wrote:
Superb Mike... I didn't know you had such music talent!

Wasn't me guv, honest. Google the first line.

I reckon we could sell a few copies at various rallies if it were put
to music :-)

Any suggestions for a suitable title?

"Abbey Road" worked for the Beatles, so let's call it "Hardens Close"

73
Mike G4KFK

Peter wrote:
I reckon we could sell a few copies at various rallies if it were put
to music :-)

We'd need a few more tracks. Maybe:
"You gotta troll with it" by Oasis
"Rant music" by Adam and The Ants
"You won't work another fool M3" by The New Seekers
"I gotta brand new M3 licence" by Melanie
"Milk and methylated spirit" by Dr Feelgood
"Meths in the jar" by Thin Lizzy
"I go to sheep" by The Pretenders
"R.S.C.B" by The Village People

73
Mike G4KFK

G4KFK wrote:
We'd need a few more tracks. Maybe:
"You gotta troll with it" by Oasis
"Rant music" by Adam and The Ants
"You won't work another fool M3" by The New Seekers
"I gotta brand new M3 licence" by Melanie
"Milk and methylated spirit" by Dr Feelgood
"Meths in the jar" by Thin Lizzy
"I go to sheep" by The Pretenders
"R.S.C.B" by The Village People

I forgot one....

"Every little thing he does is mental" by The (Wiltshire) Police

"G4KFK" wrote:


Peter wrote:
I reckon we could sell a few copies at various rallies if it were put
to music :-)

We'd need a few more tracks. Maybe:
"You gotta troll with it" by Oasis

"The Fool('s Licence) on the hill" by ????????????

zAAPK wrote:
"The Fool('s Licence) on the hill" by ????????????

The Beatles :-)

You continue to behave like a 5-year-old

Peter wrote:
On 3 Feb 2006 13:11:05 -0800, "G4KFK" wrote:


Orator For Decency wrote:
There is no animosity expressed by urging those of a technical
bent to join us; neither is there any animosity in standing apart
from those who are not our fellows by any stretch of the
imagination.

Mike G4KFK
snip


Superb Mike... I didn't know you had such music talent!

I reckon we could sell a few copies at various rallies if it were put
to music :-)

Any suggestions for a suitable title?


Peter, G3PHO