On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 12:49:09 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

I suspect it is your attitude more than your clothing.

bingo

bb

Wow...cool! I got this vanity call when I upgraded to Extra. I
couldn't believe W4Charleston South Carolina was open....Neither could
my buddies who work for WCSC-TV5...(c;

I had a logbook once.....back when they forced me to write down
everyone I talked to.....

73, Larry W4CharlestonSC


On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:51:36 GMT, "Rural Knight"
wrote:

Larry,

Hope you don't mind - I looked up your call.

I have you in my log as KN4IM - SSB, but I don't have
the date or band - I had a corrupted database when I switched
computers.

Small world ain't it?

73,

Tom
NM1Q


"Larry" wrote in message
.. .
Hee hee....I love the look on their faces when you pull up in a rusted
out pickup that looks like it's been hauling crab pots for 30
years....(c;



On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 16:48:03 GMT, "Rural Knight"
wrote:


"Larry" wrote in message
.. .

~~ snippage ~~

I think you can use dress and your car as a consumer tool. If you
want to be fawned over, borrow someone's new Lexus or Cadillac
Escalade and go boat shopping in your suit dressed-to-kill. If you
want to be left alone to poke around, wear the clothes you mow the
lawn in...and drive your daughter's boyfriend's old Toyota with the
big rust holes in it....(c;

I live by this rule - and it is SOO much fun you can't imagine.

Later,

Tom




Larry W4CSC

"No, NO, Mr Spock! I said beam me down a WRENCH,
not a WENCH! KIRK OUT!"





Larry W4CSC

"No, NO, Mr Spock! I said beam me down a WRENCH,
not a WENCH! KIRK OUT!"

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:15:03 GMT, "Rural Knight"
wrote:

LOL!!

Would you believe that I still have my Novice logs from 1962?

Mine were destroyed in a fire in my home. I lost most everything
before that date....(snif)



Larry W4CSC

"No, NO, Mr Spock! I said beam me down a WRENCH,
not a WENCH! KIRK OUT!"

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:54:58 GMT, "Clams Canino"
wrote:

I took WA1MKH as a vanity call when I got extra. I was KA1MKH, but
*everybody* on 75 meter AM kept calling me WA1MKH - so I changed it to make
the world right again. LOL

I fought the M and N mixup the whole time I was KN4IM.....it was
AWFUL. I vowed NEVER AGAIN to have calls with N or M or D or B or E
in it. Very confusing.

My second choice was N4 (or maybe it was K4) SEX, which I figured was
real easy to remember....even for me! It was open and available....

But, I always wanted an original W4 call, a bit of nostalgia. Now I
have it for life....er, ah...as long as I'm willing to PAY for
it....dammit.

Why the recurring cost for a vanity call? Once it's on the database,
it's just an FCC RIPOFF!!



Larry W4CSC

"No, NO, Mr Spock! I said beam me down a WRENCH,
not a WENCH! KIRK OUT!"

Larry wrote:

Hee hee....I love the look on their faces when you pull up in a rusted
out pickup that looks like it's been hauling crab pots for 30
years....(c;




Well, most dealers correctly treat you with the disdain you deserve,
Larry. It's not as if you have the ability to buy or finance a large
boat. You're just an ornery tire-kicker.


--
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email sent to will *never* get to me.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news
Larry wrote:

Hee hee....I love the look on their faces when you pull up in a rusted
out pickup that looks like it's been hauling crab pots for 30
years....(c;

Well, most dealers correctly treat you with the disdain you deserve,
Larry. It's not as if you have the ability to buy or finance a large
boat. You're just an ornery tire-kicker.

Well, perhaps it doesn't happen to you for some reason, but it
has happened to me on a couple of occasions, but that's because
I'm kind of impulsive and if I see something that interests me, I
stop to look regardless of my state of dress. Maybe it's because I
dress down more than I dress up.

Later,

Tom