I always just try to log it as sent. However, if what I am sent is not
correct, you can't blame me. I have been sent all of the variants in
different contests. But since these guys are presumably Canadian, who am I
to argue with what they send. So if a "LB" or "NF" finds its way into my
log it is not due to MY ignorance.
At 01:14 AM 1/18/04, Dave wrote:
"Americans are amiably ill-informed about Canada, while Canadians are
irritably well-informed about the United States."
This old chestnut is played out as truth every time I get on in a
US-organised domestic contest. I always run into people whose profound
ignorance about us, their neighbours, irritates the bejeebers out of me:
- Some whinge that their software does not recognise what multiplier I am (I
can't fix your software from here)
- Some ask me what "providence" I am in (the word is "province!")
- Some try to tell me that they know better that I where I am located ("No,
no, no - VO1 is New Brunswick!")
- Some just guess wildly when they have trouble ("My software doesn't
understand NL, so I'll just put in "NS.")
And it makes it a drag for me to hand out a multiplier you want to work.
Jim Rhodes K0XU
jim@rhodesend.net
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