"Peter R." wrote in message
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TruckingNoob wrote:

Sure, but can you learn to SNIP ****? Maybe keep only what is
RELEVANT.??
I really don't understand people's lack of basic deletion so that you
don't
have to look throguh tons of CRAP just to see someone one line BS.

Occasionally there are cross posts that are very educational. For
example,
with this thread I didn't realize there was a newsgroup devoted to
truckers. When I picture a trucker I picture someone not familiar with
the
Internet or specifically, Usenet. Now I know better.

FYI, I'm an over the road driver, somewhere in -any- of the Lower 48, 28
days a month or more.

I have about 20,000 posts /10 yrs on Usenet (primarily in Rec.scuba), and
I have broadband PCS in the truck.

As a wildly unsupportable guess, I'd say about 40% of OTR drivers have a
notebook in the truck.

They are, at least, far from uncommon.

We use them for work as well as recreation.

Mapping routes and destinations, book keeping, and locating facilities
like truck scales, maintenance facilities, and fuel stops, all on the
internet.

For recreation I dock my iPod, and download books on tape, and play then
via the truck's sound system.

DVDs of course.

Mounted on a Jottodesk made specifically for Freightliner.

Also many truck stops offer Wife, as well as some state rest areas.

--
Peter



--

Popeye
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun
than you can with a kind word alone. -Capone
www.finalprotectivefire.com

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"Popeye" wrote:

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Could we drop rec.radio.shortwave off the news group header where this
is off topic? Thanks.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote in message
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"Popeye" wrote:

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Could we drop rec.radio.shortwave off the news group header where this
is off topic? Thanks.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

Or instead of being a whining, ****head Usenet prima-donna, you could just
ignore the thread.
You're welcome.

Popeye
Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Popeye wrote:
"Telamon" wrote in message
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"Popeye" wrote:

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Could we drop rec.radio.shortwave off the news group header where this
is off topic? Thanks.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

Or instead of being a whining, ****head Usenet prima-donna, you could just
ignore the thread.
You're welcome.

Popeye
Gatlinburg, Tennessee



[Telamon is] "a whining, ****head Usenet prima-donna" works for you.

"sanctimonious hypocrite" works for me...

"Dick Chisel" wrote in message
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Popeye wrote:
"Telamon" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Popeye" wrote:

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Could we drop rec.radio.shortwave off the news group header where this
is off topic? Thanks.

Or instead of being a whining, ****head Usenet prima-donna, you could
just ignore the thread.
You're welcome.

[Telamon is] "a whining, ****head Usenet prima-donna" works for you.

"sanctimonious hypocrite" works for me...

cough

Learn to use DELETE!


ok

In article ,
"Popeye" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Popeye" wrote:

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Could we drop rec.radio.shortwave off the news group header where this
is off topic? Thanks.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

Or instead of being a

Snip

Sorry that my simple request was to much for you to handle.

Plonk

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Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Popeye" wrote:

Snip

Could we drop rec.radio.shortwave off the news group header where this
is off topic? Thanks.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Or instead of being a whining, ****head Usenet prima-donna, you could
just ignore the thread.
You're welcome.

Snip

Sorry that my simple request was to much for you to handle.

Plonk


Oh!

No!

I've been -Plonked-!

What a dick.

Thanks for -verifying- that Usenet prima-donna crack empirically.

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Popeye
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun
than you can with a kind word alone. -Capone
www.finalprotectivefire.com

"Popeye" wrote in message
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For recreation I dock my iPod, and download books on tape, and play then
via the truck's sound system.


What I liked when I was out was the old radio shows.

Original Gashauler wrote:
"Popeye" wrote in message
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For recreation I dock my iPod, and download books on tape, and play then
via the truck's sound system.


What I liked when I was out was the old radio shows.

I've been listening to those lately on XM. Especially the old comedy
shows like Jack Benny, Burns and Allen and even Red Skelton. Skelton's
hilarious. If he forgets lines he just ad libs. I think he was the
Robin Williams of my parents generation.

I also like the old westerns line the Lone Ranger and even Hopalong
Cassidy. It's interesting listening to the Gunsmoke radio shows. I
grew up watching James Arness play Matt Dillon on the TV series but on
the radio shows it was Robert Conrad playing that role.