On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:24:19 -0400, "Leanne" wrote:


"Capt. Lewry" wrote in message
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message


Cool. Sometimes I wish I learned more about electronics, but my color
perception kept me on wrenches. I'll just refer to your posts when I
need electronics advice.

--Vic

Vic, bad boys rape all our young girls, but Violet gives willingly, get
some now.

Larry, The way we taught it was Violet gives willingly for gold or silver.
Now don't ask about Oscar in the trig functions. Teaching was fun, but it
got old at
TCL ( Technical College of the Low Country). At NATTC, I had a captive
audience and
they had the incentive to learn the avionics stuff or end up as paint
chippers on some tin can.

Thanks for that follow-up Leanne. Not knowing Capt. Lewry I had first
assumed he was casting lewd remarks in my direction - nothing new, BTW
- but now understand that it was simply an electronics mnemonics aid.
Neat, and I have in fact read resistor codes while consulting a nearby
guide, this to solder in some kind of cheat modification to my son's
Sony playstation. Not having experience in circuit board soldering,
I melted the damn innards. That's ok, because I then insisted he play
games on a PC and he's never looked back, saving me (or him) lots
of money on future game boxes. He has PC emulators for those games.
To set you straight on tin cans, I spent 3 1/2 years gunkholing on one
in places that carriers could only dream of.
That more than compensated for a bit of paint chipping.
Carrier crews turned ports of call into tourist traps, increasing
liberty costs steeply, while even small ports easily absorbed our
crew. In keeping with the family values of the group, I won't outline
those costs.
It was always a disappointment to see a CV anchored at
a port. High prices. Too many drunks. And jarheads.

--Vic