No Steve, it means that I was drowning in the river and Bill was suppose to
throw his rig into the river to save me. As the rig was falling toward me
and the water, I suddenly put my legs down and found bottom. To my
amazement the water was only 3 feet deep. So I stood up completely, caught
the rig before it got wet, walked to the river bank, got on my donkey, and
rode home to my Ham Shack with new rig under my arm. Of course the XYL's
first comment was, "That's not a chicken!", which is why I was sent to the
Market Bridge in the first place!
The moral of the story, think twice, post once, then think twice again
before clicking on the Send icon.
As for the subject of "For Sale" on the reflector, maybe the reflector
administrator has guidelines for this issue. As in what is allowed and what
isn't allowed. In my mind, it is just what it says it is, "For Sale". This
is a reflector for Ten-Tec users not an auction site. If a user of this
reflector wants his "For Sale" item to go to the highest bidder, then
he/she should place it on E-bay and post a FS on this reflector stating
his/her item is For Sale and it is item number whatever on E-bay keeping
all other issues and communications over on E-bay. This should make those
that can be happy, happy. The seller gets the highest price for his item
and still gets to post a FS on the reflector to give his Ten-Tec equipment
maximum exposure to Ten-Tec buyers. The reflector users will be happy by
seeing Ten-Tec gear FS and an action will not be taking place on the
reflector, it will be on E-bay. And normal "For Sale" items will be first
come, first pay, first get. Just like all the other "For Sale" items in the
world.
And yes for the record, I have a 2 Mbps always on Internet connection and
my Euroda Pro is set to check mail every two minutes. I also have a
wireless E-mail device that gets updates when I am not at home (which is
great for E-bay, I know when I have been out bid immediately).
Hope this humor and thoughts on the "For Sale" subject helps someone smile
and be happy,
73 Keith
de Ke4TEG
At 08:57 PM 08/13/2002 -0400, Steve Ellington wrote:
>I don't get it. Does this mean that Bill was supposed to throw his rig in
>the river?
>
>Steve Ellington N4LQ.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "aluscre" <aluscre@neo.rr.com>
>To: "Bill Taylor(W4WBT)" <w4wbt@fmci.net>
>Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
>Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] (FS) Jupiter forsale
>
>
> >
> >
> > The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
> >
> >
> > A Man and his son were once going with their Donkey to market.
> > As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them
> > and said: "You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?"
> >
> > So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their
> > way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: "See
> > that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides."
> >
> > So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself.
> > But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom
> > said to the other: "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little
> > son trudge along."
> >
> > Well, the Man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his
> > Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to
> > the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The
> > Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said:
> > "Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey
> > with you and your hulking son?"
> >
> > The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They
> > thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied
> > the donkey's feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to
> > their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met
> > them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one
> > of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end
> > of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and
> > his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.
> >
> > "That will teach you," said an old man who had followed them:
> >
> > "Please all, and you will please none."
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Taylor(W4WBT) wrote:
> >
> > > I was just trying to please everyone and all I got was about 20 nasty
> > > emails. So I tell you what I am going to do. Since I said I would take
> > > any reasonable offer over 700. I am going to say NOW that the first
> > > person who gets an email to me after 6PM can have the unit WITH a
> > > matching TenTec speaker for $775 Delivered. I can't be any more fair
> > > that this. I can see what any kind of controversies really stirs up
> > > those who want to be mean to someone. BTW, the message below is not
> > > one of the mean ones, just the last one I got.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> The spirit of ham radio is to help people.I think you have lost that
> > >> trying
> > >> to sell your unit that way.A simple price would have been proper.I
> > >> for one
> > >> would like to have it,but not at auction.
> > >>
> > >> bob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > |--------------------------|
> > Anthony A. Luscre
> > K8ZT
> > Stow, Ohio
> > |--------------------------|
> > Visit My Website at
> > http://www.qsl.net/k8zt
> > |--------------------------|
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