[CQ-Contest] The Chosen

[Robert King]

Hey Hans!

Wasn't this from an old country/western classic from yesteryear?
Brought back lotsa memories....

Green Hornet


Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The Chosen


> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Bartender, I'll have whatever he's having, but maybe not quite so
strong.
> :-)
> >
> > 73, Bill W6WRT
> >
>
> Bill,
>
>         It becomes my painful duty to write you a letter of apology
instead
> of sending you the Christmas remembrance that I had intended for you.
>
>         Knowing so well the appetites, likes and dislikes of my close
> friends, I made up a list of twelve of my best friends and went down and
> bought twelve quarts of eighteen-year-old Glenmorangie single malt
whiskey.
> Nothing but the very finest for my friends.  I took this home and put it
in
> my closet and intended to put it up in nice Christmas packages and send it
> out to you late this week just before Christmas.
>
>         K0CKB got to fumbling around in the closet and found the liquor
and
> didn't understand just what I intended to do with it.  So she came up and
> told me to empty the contents of every bottle down the sink, or else. So I
> proceeded with the unpleasant task.
>
>         I withdrew the cork from the first bottle and poured the contents
> down the sink, with the exception of one glass which I drank.  I extracted
> the cork of the second bottle and likewise poured the contents down the
> sink, with the exception of the glass which I drank.  I pulled the sink
> from the next bottle from the cork of the next and drank one sink out of
it
> and threw the rest down the glass. I pulled the sink out of the next glass
> and poured the cork from the bottle. Then I corked the sink with the
glass,
> bottled the drink and drank the pour.
>
>         When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand
> and counted the bottles, corks, glasses, andsinks with the other, which
> were twenty-nine. And, as the houses came by, I counted them again and
> finally had all the houses and bottles and corks and glasses and sinks
> counted, except one house which I drank.
>
>         So this accounts, dear friend, for your not receiving a more
> stimulating Christmas present than this letter.  I sincerely hope that
from
> some other source you get all the joys and happiness that come from
> Christmas remembrances.
>
>         "May the Good Lord take care of you, but not too soon."
>
> 73, Hans, K0HB
>
> -- 
> "1943 Poster Child for The National Precocious Little Bastard Campaign"
>
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