The AM Forum

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."
- William Shakespeare  (1564-1616)

    "We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."

                                               Pogo  1943 - 1973

"Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least a while... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance - just one chance - to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!! "

Sir William Wallace of Scotland (c1270 - 1305)

"There was these two fellars standin' on a bridge, a-goin' to the bathroom. One fellar said, "The water's cold" and the other fellar said, "The water's deep". I believe one fellar come from Arkansas. Get it?"

Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thorton in The movie "Slingblade" - 1996)

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt - Paris, April 23, 1910

"It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity." - Frank Zappa

"May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather...."

Jack Burton -  Big Trouble in Little China  - July 1986

"Never make predictions -- especially about the future."

Yogi Berra

Don't let your coffee get cold!
 Mike(y) W3SLK 1985 (while serving aboard the USS America CV-66)

An employee of mine from about 1989...

"I keep putting the paper in the FAX machine, but it keeps coming back out!"

She sent the FAX 12 times (I think) to St. Louis before I explained to her that the paper _itself_ does not actually travel through the phone line...   ???

Chris Rock's Quote Of The Year:

 "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best  golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup,  France is accusing the U. S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick and Colon."

T

"Incomming"  1/1/67---1/3/67

"..give a man a rice box and he will buy a G5RV and join a net...give him a box of parts and he will build a rig, understand what he has built and operate A.M."

by Tina

$20.00 and a handfull of fets! 

Hey, Brent,--
I do like that quote, cause there IS a lot of truth to that,(about a box of parts)
and it leading to building stuff.

Back in the early 70`s --I was trying to sell parts at fleamarkets,(and give some away)
and nobody wanted parts,--just "competed equipment"--so I just decided then,
rather than throw them away,--I might just as well use them myself to build stuff,
(lots of qrp equipment)

In that process I had a lot of fun, and learned a
little to boot.(so these guys who did not want these parts did me a favor after all).
I geuss its like," if you want to feed a man for a day, give him lunch"--but if
you want to feed a man for life",--"TEACH him how to fish".

                                           73, Rene, K1MVP
 

   A Classic!  ;D ;D  ;D


And lest we forget:

"Am I strapping this guy or what?"


"Shaded dipole, shaded dipole... wire array, wire array."


"Can anybody hear me on this junk?"   [as the S meter pins]


"Gawd damned Slopbuckets!"


T

lest we forget "...USE A DUMMY LOAD...DUMMY!!"

Brent

I geuss its like," if you want to feed a man for a day, give him lunch"--but if
you want to feed a man for life",--"TEACH him how to fish".  73, Rene, K1MVP
Hey Rene,

I think you screwed that one up a little bit.  I believe it goes like this:

"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day; teach him how to fish, and he'll spend all summer in a boat drinking beer."

"I've always found my weekly baths to be very refreshing."  -- Irwin Richardt

Hello to Tim if he's in there.

Urei, urei....

Ain't a slopbucket in North America that can bother me.

My mobile rig's so ynellowee, I can't even blow a fuse.

That's quite a message.

Listening for the little voice in the wilderness.

Second greatest story ever told.

I'm not sure who is in here, so I'll just through it up in the air.

Let's not forget.....

"Class E operators freeze to death in the dark !!"

(name withheld to protect his butt.)

"WHEREDYJYA GET THOSE???" - Timtron, circa 1993?

 ;D ;D ;D   FUNNY POSTS!!!

Ahhhhhhh....... and now, possibly the most un-politically correct statement ever made on 75 M:

"Irb if ya don't shut up, I gonna kick you in the the gawd damn balls next time I'm in Jersey - SHUT THE F**K UP!!! "   - The Prime Minister


T

Tnx Rene, classics, each and every one!

I'll be sure to add those the AM's Greatest Hits CD.

Don't forget my personal fav, "God Bless Mel Gibson".

Irb, the salt of 75 meters, he sure adds favor to the band.
In those immortal words of Tiny Tim "God bless us everyone."

The two hardest working guys in radio...

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Have a happy new year or be tried for treason!

I'm only in it for the  money...Frank Zappa

America Where are you now ...Stepen Wolf

America will sell you the rope you hang them with. N.K. shoe banging commie bastard

a classic Hostraders...
Anybody see any 1000 pf. Door Knobs

Another....
Who took the three pole pigs

"go ahead and make a broadcast"  -  WA3UAN (sk)

* Anonymous Quotes from Roundtables heard through the years:*


"So, who's in here?  I know there's a big group in here.  I don't know who though. Just wanted to say hello. Just put me in the rotation somewhere."  [He just checked into the KKK Rainbow Net and doesn't know it yet]


"Well, now that I made MY twenty minute transmission, think I'm gonna QRT. Don't know who it goes to, so I'll just throw it up in the air. I'm shutting the receiver off. 73, everybody".


"OK, I'm finished - now over to you... your turn to take one"   [better get out the toilet paper]


"OK, now whose turn is it?  I can't remember whose turn it is. O'well. The group is so big  maybe we better go break -in ?"  [As the next guy in line cringes]


AAnd, a Famous Quote:

"I didn't HAVE to shut down....  I just shut down.   I couldn't listen to that anymore.  But I didn't HAVE to shut down. I just did.  Cuz I didn't really have to shut down..... "
-Blown Away Bob

Happy New Year.

 ;D ;D ;D

T

Told to me on 7.290, and witnessed by Dave, w9AD:

"Hey, Old Man, you better check your transceiver.  There's something wrong with it.  You have no unwanted sideband supression, and there's a loud humming noise between your upper and lower sidebands."

Written to Roy, K8VWX by an unidentified letter writer:

"You were operating on the wrong side of your sideband!"

I seen it here. ssb its only a fad. I had a T-shirt made up with that saying on it to wear to club meetings and hamfest. Matthew KR4WI

 Thats quite a message. Are you on narcotics?