Michael Coslo wrote:
wrote:

Perhaps Coslo might make it 4. Coslonaut wants so much
to be an olde-tymer he'll even refer to himself as an "extra
lite" to show his sycophantsies (e.g. synchronous fantasies).

No Len, you don't offend me.

It's kinda hard to be "offended" when you realize the person doing
the "offending" is such an idiot. Kinda like the guy who walks up to a
park bench, picks up the "Wet Paint" sign, sits down, then complains
about the wet paint.

It's just that Lennie walks up to the bench, looks around to see
if anyone's watching, picks up the sign and sits down, then screams at
the top of his lungs how they came along and painted the bench while he
was still on it.

Wadda putz.

Steve, K4YZ

Dee Flint wrote:
"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
...

[snip]

As the future would pan out, we have lost numbers, and a lot of
them the
Non-coded types.

As a ship that is almost stopped proves, turning the rudder does
almost
nothing, or when the interest rate goes very low, adjusting it does
almost
nothing, eliminating the 5WPM Morse code will have no positive
effect on
the numbers of new hams, and the most likely effect will be that
with the
lesser effort, more and more will get into the hobby with only
slight
interest, and then drop out. That is not what we need.

Hey, do I get a prize for that freakin' long sentence?

- Mike KB3EIA -


How does it stack up against some of Edgar Allan Poe's sentences? I
know he
wrote some doozies when it came to length.

I think you'll find that James Joyce holds all the long-sentence
records.

And that Sweet Lenny holds all the records for irrelevant sentences.



Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

w3rv

Michael Coslo wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:

Mike Coslo wrote:

K4YZ wrote:

wrote:

Perhaps Coslo might make it 4. Coslonaut wants so much
to be an olde-tymer he'll even refer to himself as an "extra
lite" to show his sycophantsies (e.g. synchronous fantasies).

I didn't notice that in the original post.

What a very, very odd thing to type..........


It is the latest in a very long string of very odd things which Leonard
has typed.


One of the first times I have been accused of trying to impress others.
Go figure. Mostly I just irritate others.


Mike, Mike, Mike. You have a callsign. You're guilty of trying to
impress Len.

Heck, I've had it all wrong, Dave. I thouhgt having a callsign
*offended* him!

Maybe he's right and I am a little dull...

Trying to impress him offends him. That would, in Len-speak, make you
"overly-proud".

Next thing you know, Len'll be picturing you in an invisible Waffen SS
uniform and his thoughts will drift to having you punish him. It gets
really strange *after* that.

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:
Michael Coslo wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:


Mike Coslo wrote:


K4YZ wrote:


wrote:

Perhaps Coslo might make it 4. Coslonaut wants so much
to be an olde-tymer he'll even refer to himself as an "extra
lite" to show his sycophantsies (e.g. synchronous fantasies).

I didn't notice that in the original post.

What a very, very odd thing to type..........


It is the latest in a very long string of very odd things which Leonard
has typed.



One of the first times I have been accused of trying to impress others.
Go figure. Mostly I just irritate others.


Mike, Mike, Mike. You have a callsign. You're guilty of trying to
impress Len.

Heck, I've had it all wrong, Dave. I thouhgt having a callsign
*offended* him!

Maybe he's right and I am a little dull...


Trying to impress him offends him. That would, in Len-speak, make you
"overly-proud".

Next thing you know, Len'll be picturing you in an invisible Waffen SS
uniform and his thoughts will drift to having you punish him. It gets
really strange *after* that.


Do I at least get to wear regular underwear? I hope....


- Mike KB3EIA -

Mike Coslo wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:
Michael Coslo wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:


Mike Coslo wrote:


K4YZ wrote:


wrote:

Perhaps Coslo might make it 4. Coslonaut wants so much
to be an olde-tymer he'll even refer to himself as an "extra
lite" to show his sycophantsies (e.g. synchronous fantasies).

I didn't notice that in the original post.

What a very, very odd thing to type..........


It is the latest in a very long string of very odd things which Leonard
has typed.



One of the first times I have been accused of trying to impress others.
Go figure. Mostly I just irritate others.


Mike, Mike, Mike. You have a callsign. You're guilty of trying to
impress Len.

Heck, I've had it all wrong, Dave. I thouhgt having a callsign
*offended* him!

Maybe he's right and I am a little dull...


Trying to impress him offends him. That would, in Len-speak, make you
"overly-proud".

Next thing you know, Len'll be picturing you in an invisible Waffen SS
uniform and his thoughts will drift to having you punish him. It gets
really strange *after* that.

Do I at least get to wear regular underwear? I hope....

I dunno, Mike. It's Len's fantasy.

Dave K8MN

wrote:
wrote:
Alun L. Palmer wrote:
wrote in news:1108745797.245365.147250
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

Alun L. Palmer wrote:
wrote in news:1108665611.010471.49400
@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
But emulating Sweden is OK huh?

n3kip

w3rv

Sure, why not?

BINGO: There it is. Old Europe. Sez it all.

Not in your lifetime Alun.

'Bye.

w3rv

We have very different political views.

OBVIOUSLY.

I don't know how you would classify
yourself, but by European standards you are very far to the right
indeed,

I'm a centrist Republican a la Sen. Arlen Specter, a member of a
disapperaing breed.

Sadly disappearing!

Ted Kennedy is a right-winger by Old Europe
standards.

Yup.

Welcome to America.

as by no stretch is Sweden a socialist country.

Blather. It's a country which uses it's outrageous taxes on it's
few
monster "capitalist" smokestack industries to hand out socialist
entitlements to it's population on a scale unheard of in any other
country. Entitlments being the heart of socialism in all it's
forms.
Sven the fender-hanger at the SAAB plant didn't "feel good"
yesterday
so he stayed home and watched the tube. No problem, he got paid
anyway
under Swedish law. SAAB plant payrolls are bloated by 20% percent
per
unit out the door vs. the U.S & Japan because 20% of the SAAB
workers
"call in sick" every day. Absolute fact. GM got stupid and bought
SAAB
mostly to save the marque otherwise SAAB would have died years ago
but
GM is now mulling a pullout to cut their losses. The outflow of
capital
from Sweden to other countries has been appalling, check out the
numbers and why it's happening and what the Swedish government is
doing
to stanch the bleeding.

The reason the whole thing didn't collapse right away was that the
smokestacks are/were big exporters, bringing in hard currency.

I can no doubt go ten blocks around the compass from here in the
suburbs of Philadelphia and find more businesses with ten or fewer
employees than you'll find in all of Sweden. Why is that Alun??
Could
it be that Swedish socialist economics stifles entrepreneurial
capitalism which is the engine behind the astounding growth of the
U.S. economy for over two centuries? Of course it is.

As for myself, I used to be a card carrying member of the
Conservative and
Unionist Party in the UK, but I freely admit that I have drifted
leftwards
since then, very likely as a result of seeing at first hand the
huge
social inequalities in the USA.

Certainly there are social inequalities in the U.S. The original
Constitution plus it's Bill of Rights guarantees equality in all
elections and in all courts in this country and nothing more.
Translates into a system in which the fate of individuals depends
on
what they freely choose to do or not do with their lives. Those who
choose to be slackers suffer the consequences they freely imposed
on
themselves so of course we wind up with "social inequalities"
galore.

Equality of rights and opportunities - not equality of outcomes.

Add in some other points about Sweden:

Compared to the USA, it's tiny in both population and land area. Also
virtually homogeneous (again compared to the USA). 'Diversity' means
something very different in Sweden. Heck, they split with Norway
after
less than 100 years of alliance IIRC.


Rather, it was the Norwegians who split. And as everyone knows, they
ARE weird.


It's relatively easy and simple for a community/society to 'work' if
it's small and uniform. USA is neither, and never has been.

By your leftist standards our system has too many freedoms.

If it's called being a socialist to think that the ordinary
working
man
should be able to get medical care without courting bankruptcy,
then
I
suppose that makes me a socialist, but if you actually look in a
dictionary, then you will see that I am not, and neither are the
Swedes.

See above.

Health care is only one issue. Is W3RV's info about SAAB accurate or
not?
Should American industry work the same way?


American industry works in the way that the government ensures they
have no competition. And if the industries become unprofitable anyway,
the government pumps money into it to keep it afloat.

This is unlike, for instance, Sweden, where they have this thing called
a "market economy" which means that if a company cannot survive in
competition with other companies, the company will simply die. On the
other hand, it's easier and less bureaucratic to start a new company in
Sweden.

The way Swedes see it, what the United States has is a more socialist
system than Sweden has. And the Swedish government always tries to make
other countries realize that a market economic system would be good for
them. Unfortunately most people seem to be strong believers in
socialism.



socialism // n.
1 a political and economic theory of social organization which
advocates
that the community as a whole should own and control the means of
production, distribution, and exchange.

Oh**** . . the second coming of Cecil and his friggin' dictionaries
..
.
!

2 policy or practice based on this theory.
socialist n. & adj.
socialistic // adj.
socialistically // adv.
[French socialisme (as social)]

"community as a whole" = "the government"

Sure seems to fit!

73 de Jim, N2EY

Dave Heil wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:

Michael Coslo wrote:


Dave Heil wrote:



Mike Coslo wrote:



K4YZ wrote:



wrote:

Perhaps Coslo might make it 4. Coslonaut wants so much
to be an olde-tymer he'll even refer to himself as an "extra
lite" to show his sycophantsies (e.g. synchronous fantasies).

I didn't notice that in the original post.

What a very, very odd thing to type..........


It is the latest in a very long string of very odd things which Leonard
has typed.




One of the first times I have been accused of trying to impress others.
Go figure. Mostly I just irritate others.


Mike, Mike, Mike. You have a callsign. You're guilty of trying to
impress Len.

Heck, I've had it all wrong, Dave. I thouhgt having a callsign
*offended* him!

Maybe he's right and I am a little dull...


Trying to impress him offends him. That would, in Len-speak, make you
"overly-proud".

Next thing you know, Len'll be picturing you in an invisible Waffen SS
uniform and his thoughts will drift to having you punish him. It gets
really strange *after* that.

Do I at least get to wear regular underwear? I hope....


I dunno, Mike. It's Len's fantasy.

ARGGHHHHH! I give up Dave, Uncle, Uncle! You've succedded in totally
grossing me out! 8^)

- Mike KB3EIA -

Mike Coslo wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:

Michael Coslo wrote:


Dave Heil wrote:



Mike Coslo wrote:



K4YZ wrote:



wrote:

Perhaps Coslo might make it 4. Coslonaut wants so much
to be an olde-tymer he'll even refer to himself as an "extra
lite" to show his sycophantsies (e.g. synchronous fantasies).

I didn't notice that in the original post.

What a very, very odd thing to type..........


It is the latest in a very long string of very odd things which Leonard
has typed.




One of the first times I have been accused of trying to impress others.
Go figure. Mostly I just irritate others.


Mike, Mike, Mike. You have a callsign. You're guilty of trying to
impress Len.

Heck, I've had it all wrong, Dave. I thouhgt having a callsign
*offended* him!

Maybe he's right and I am a little dull...


Trying to impress him offends him. That would, in Len-speak, make you
"overly-proud".

Next thing you know, Len'll be picturing you in an invisible Waffen SS
uniform and his thoughts will drift to having you punish him. It gets
really strange *after* that.

Do I at least get to wear regular underwear? I hope....


I dunno, Mike. It's Len's fantasy.

ARGGHHHHH! I give up Dave, Uncle, Uncle! You've succedded in totally
grossing me out! 8^)

Oh heck, Mike. That's nothing. None of that stuff phases me. I'd
begin to be weirded out if Len were to suddenly take a liking to me, to
begin being cordial, to act as if there were other people on the planet
who knew as much or more about a subject than he does.

If he dropped his wild rants about the Church of St. Hiram, Sermons on
the Antenna Mount, his claims of being a PROFESSIONAL, his not-so-subtle
references to Mr. Glock or his belittling of the careers of others, I'd
be nervous that something quite unpleasant was about to take place.
Then it dawns on me: How much worse could it get?

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:

Then it dawns on me: How much worse could it get?

I think any abrupt change, even if it means having to tell the
truth, would, from Lennie, be a "death bed confession"...!

73

Steve, K4YZ

Dave Heil wrote:

Then it dawns on me: How much worse could it get?

I think any abrupt change, even if it means having to tell the
truth, would, from Lennie, be a "death bed confession"...!

73

Steve, K4YZ