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« Reply #25 on: February 02, 2009, 07:41:10 PM »

No, just not some washed up has been. There's nothing more pathetic than an over the hill rocker trying to relive the 1970s. Sad. And then to put it along side the youth and power of the football players makes it seem even more ridiculous. If these guys were the act at some nursing home, then OK, it makes sense.

You geezers have fun watching. None of the crap for me.


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« Reply #26 on: February 02, 2009, 08:02:54 PM »

The stupid bowl is a major production for TV and nothing else. Got to blame the idiots who put this programming together for what appears. Maybe Springsteen was better than the dreck that's prevalent today as far as ratings go. All the more reason I cannot watch pro football  and the stupid bowl or any mainstream pro sports.   According to the TV listings there was a 6 hour pre-game show. Now come on, talk about overboard. That should be a clue, then to put the game on at 6pm.  The good ole days the game was on mid afternoon with a 1 to 2 hr pre-game show and what was delivered was far more meaningful than todays delivery.
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« Reply #27 on: February 02, 2009, 08:48:11 PM »

My fartoverite of the whole show was 'andy' Rooney standing beside the players and coach in the post game interview.  Were it not for his money and good standing I"d almost feel sorry for him.  I understand the torch is being passed, however, to his brothers and sons.

That interview is fitting of the whole age dichotomy and as mentioned very 'embletic' (Bushism # 5103 in a series*) contrast.
 
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Risking a flurry of vitriol, I like the Steelers and thought the fourth quarter was thrilling.
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« Reply #28 on: February 02, 2009, 09:13:10 PM »

Notice how all the newspaper ads for big screen TV's show a bunch of guys watching football, like you aren't an authentic American if you don't have interest in the game.

In our house, my wife is the football fan; I couldn't give a damn less.  And she watches football on her own without my company, just as I play radio on my own without hers.
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« Reply #29 on: February 02, 2009, 09:22:54 PM »

I much preferred the wardrobe malfunction.
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« Reply #30 on: February 02, 2009, 09:26:29 PM »

To my fellow, "don't give a damn about the StupidBowl"   Brothers:

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.  I sometimes wonder what the world thinks when they look at this over-the-top spectacle and 1/2 of them are starving.

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Tom,

Let me answer that: Who gives a damn.

Let them adopt capitalism, climb out of their socialist/communist fever swamps and begin to reap the rewards of our blueprint for prosperity. Until they do, may they just shut up.

To paraphrase a great lyricist, they care not to come up any higher but rather get you down in the hole that they're in.

Marie Antoinette said it more eloquently:  "Let them eat cake."

Time to turn off the AM talk radio and take a look at the real world.

Flush Rush and the doo-doo heads.


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« Reply #31 on: February 02, 2009, 09:32:11 PM »

Exactly. Now THAT's entertainment.


I much preferred the wardrobe malfunction.
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« Reply #32 on: February 02, 2009, 10:04:05 PM »

What is this "Super Bowl" of which you speak?

It's a sort of a radio contest on 27.135MHz, here in the south. Mostly a subcultural activity from what I can understand. Goes on all the time, but grows when the skip is good. Loudest signal that is intelligible enough to copy the handle, he rules! It's like an ARRL SSB contest but substituting old 100W SSB rigs in AM mode, with one or more linears in series with each other, plates running bright orange, and with no operating practices except making the most "bird watts". The object of the game is to talk over everyone else. Most of the super bowl players keep a case of "pull" finals next to the desk, beside the optional fire extinguisher, for quick access.

Now, don't confuse this with this wierd thing on TV. That, - it is just a silly festival of some kind where advertisers show off their work.

Yawn...So who won?
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naw them goobers, the serious ones, use tubular stuff, up to and probably surpassing several 3-500Z's in parallel driven by something with four 811's in it driven by an FT-101 or the like.

There was one fellow across the street doing this for a while till he had a stroke and couldn't say anything but nayma-nayma-nayma.. seriously. But it didn't stop him much. Just gave him more time to do it. He would get into the radio room with his walker and magage to tune it all up and start saying "nayma-nayma-nayma.." at about 600 watts.

When the Channel 15 Super Bowl would come back and start bithcing, he'd stomp the foot pedal on the floor and smack 'em with 3KW carrier and 100% downward modulation. Back-modulating, he called it. That is the correct CB term IIRC.

I know the power level because in my foolish transmitterless days before he had the stroke I went over there and fixed his amplifier (burnt relay). I regretted that for some time, having no cable TV, not that it would have helped, and after the stroke he'd get on and just rip the tv, stereo, and everything else to pieces.

nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-nayma-..... till the plates were yellow. I am not making fun of this, it is sad, but also in his old and decrepit condition he didn't really care if he annoyed people on the radio.

A couple years after he died I cleaned out his CB shack.

The pinnacle of power was the remains of a gutted and shoddily rebuilt Chippewa there with three paralleled 4-400's in GG, all plates with holes melted in them (I did not know you could do that with a 4-400 and have it still work), a single-band L-network of copper tubing using only a (huge) loading cap, and the separate power supply was JS'd up with a Dahl transformer and made 4500V. I had seen that setup peg the bird with the 3KW slug and it had a clothes dryer plug on the cord with #6 wire. All HV terminals exposed! But they were well insulated from 40 years of cigar smoke.

The driver was the heathkit amp with two 3-500Z's.
The predriver was the heathkit amp with the 4 811's.
The TX was a globe champion 300.
- and there was also a heathkit Apache and Mohawk. All in deplorable filthy trashed condition and not working. I picked it all up from the wife as parts for $250 because she wanted it gone and for whatever reason didn't trust the nephew to sell it. I did not get the 3KW Bird wattmeter, as the nephew insisted it was worth $500 by itself and that it belonged to him, not the old man. I don't know what he ever got for it. It was not present at the time I loaded out the stuff.

The fellow, "A. B.", was his initials, had the handle "African Bandit". He tuned up the rigs, tuning each one for maximum power in order. First getting the GC to do its 150 watts or so, then keying the 811 amp and adjusing it, then keying and adjusting the next, and so on. These were adjusted into the antenna, not into the following amp, so who knows what the real loading was. He was well-known in the Super Bowl or claimed to be, and used to tell stories about the FCC sending someone out and him running them off, claiming the station had no license therefore the FCC had no business with him, stories about other CB operators threatening to come over to shoot him, him running someone off with a shotgun, all kinds of crazy stuff. Quite a character may he rest in peace.

I hope this explains more about the super bowl and the players.
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« Reply #33 on: February 02, 2009, 10:19:52 PM »

Previous comments:

"Time to turn off the AM talk radio and take a look at the real world."

"Let them adopt capitalism, climb out of their socialist/communist fever swamps and begin to reap the rewards of our blueprint for prosperity."

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hmmmm... "...reap the rewards of our blueprint of prosperity" ... and the "real world " ?  


The "blueprint of prosperity" (the USA's economic system) is in debt for over $60 TRILLION  - direct and indirect obligations -   and some of this debt is held by other countries..

Please allow me rephrase my statement:  I sometimes wonder what the USA's CREDITOR or third world countries think when they see our over-the-top celebrations as we continue to spend like cheap pimps - with our businesses falling like dominos.  (Foreign countries are in as much - or more trouble than we are)

Yeah, yeah, I know... who cares what they think?



To put it in perspective, what does a stack of $60 TRILLION dollars look like? (The "real world")


Take a stack of tightly stacked $1000 bills.  Tie a string around them and put the pile on its side.

$1 million dollars reaches only 4" wide.

$1 Billion  reaches 333'.

$1 Trillion dollars reaches 63 miles

$60 Trillion reaches 3,780 miles of tightly stacked $1000 bills! That's over 700 miles wider than the USA. You'd have to drive for days at 100 mph to pass all those tightly stacked $1000 bills.  

And WE (you and me) owe it to someone.


That's the current financial status of the "blueprint for prosperity." (Which, BTW,  I believe is still the BEST system in the world - until we design something better)  I still think that if the last four presidents/administrations all used extreme frugal economic ethics like Jimmy Carter tried to do, as ineffective as he was, we wouldn't be in this pickle.

So, instead, $60 Trillon's the "real world."  It don't get much realer than that.   :-)

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« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2009, 11:29:21 PM »

WOW, look at this beauty. I betcha I could bullseye this baby from the doorway, no problem. Gonna have to store this one in the spank bank for later. Tongue

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« Reply #35 on: February 02, 2009, 11:40:17 PM »

little bitta word play.

No, just not some washed up has been. There's nothing more pathetic than an over the hill ham trying to relive the 1960's. Sad. And then to put it along side the youth of todays new CB ham's makes it seem even more ridiculous. If these guys were to operate at some nursing home, then OK, it makes sense.

You geezers have fun watching. None of the crap for me.


 

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« Reply #36 on: February 03, 2009, 12:02:25 AM »

My wife is older than me and dragged me to one of Frank Sinatra's last concerts.  Talk about geezer. He couldn't remember some of the words to his own songs.  It was painful to watch.
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« Reply #37 on: February 03, 2009, 02:47:16 AM »

Previous comments:

"Time to turn off the AM talk radio and take a look at the real world."

"Let them adopt capitalism, climb out of their socialist/communist fever swamps and begin to reap the rewards of our blueprint for prosperity."

------------

  

hmmmm... "...reap the rewards of our blueprint of prosperity" ... and the "real world " ?  


The "blueprint of prosperity" (the USA's economic system) is in debt for over $60 TRILLION  - direct and indirect obligations -   and some of this debt is held by other countries..

Please allow me rephrase my statement:  I sometimes wonder what the USA's CREDITOR or third world countries think when they see our over-the-top celebrations as we continue to spend like cheap pimps - with our businesses falling like dominos.  (Foreign countries are in as much - or more trouble than we are)

Yeah, yeah, I know... who cares what they think?



To put it in perspective, what does a stack of $60 TRILLION dollars look like? (The "real world")


Take a stack of tightly stacked $1000 bills.  Tie a string around them and put the pile on its side.

$1 million dollars reaches only 4" wide.

$1 Billion  reaches 333'.

$1 Trillion dollars reaches 63 miles

$60 Trillion reaches 3,780 miles of tightly stacked $1000 bills! That's over 700 miles wider than the USA. You'd have to drive for days at 100 mph to pass all those tightly stacked $1000 bills.  

And WE (you and me) owe it to someone.


That's the current financial status of the "blueprint for prosperity." (Which, BTW,  I believe is still the BEST system in the world - until we design something better)  I still think that if the last four presidents/administrations all used extreme frugal economic ethics like Jimmy Carter tried to do, as ineffective as he was, we wouldn't be in this pickle.

So, instead, $60 Trillon's the "real world."  It don't get much realer than that.   :-)

T




 It all boils down to management OM, 60 Trillion why not 80 Trillion 100 Trillion add up what One Aircraft Carrier goes through in a day resource wise...we have how many Carrier groups on the open seas, just as an example...what is and what isn't important..

 In the over all analysis what is being done from using outside resources is the correct move, always use someone elses money...LOL.....any money manager will tell ya that..never use your own cash for anything always ...LOL...

 But you have to maintain the Gall to do it and succeed ...in this country we got plenty of that..... Grin LOL....................

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« Reply #38 on: February 03, 2009, 08:28:45 AM »

Tom,

Let me answer that: Who gives a damn.

Let them adopt capitalism, climb out of their socialist/communist fever swamps and begin to reap the rewards of our blueprint for prosperity. Until they do, may they just shut up.

Marie Antoinette said it more eloquently:  "Let them eat cake."

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« Reply #39 on: February 03, 2009, 08:37:48 AM »


Tom,

Let me answer that: Who gives a damn.

Let them adopt capitalism, climb out of their socialist/communist fever swamps and begin to reap the rewards of our blueprint for prosperity. Until they do, may they just shut up.

Time to turn off the AM talk radio and take a look at the real world.

Flush Rush and the doo-doo heads.


Rush? Who mentioned Rush?

The "Blueprint" I refer to was fashioned by Jay, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison as well as Adam Smith.
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« Reply #40 on: February 03, 2009, 08:47:46 AM »

Previous comments:

"Time to turn off the AM talk radio and take a look at the real world."

"Let them adopt capitalism, climb out of their socialist/communist fever swamps and begin to reap the rewards of our blueprint for prosperity."

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hmmmm... "...reap the rewards of our blueprint of prosperity" ... and the "real world " ?  



Socialism is "where nations go to die". Our annual deficits & national debt are largely the result of  excursions down that feel good socialist highway.

The latest/greatest turn in that direction is TARP & the currently debated "STIMULUS".  They may turn out to be one way roads to the graveyard.



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« Reply #41 on: February 03, 2009, 09:14:57 AM »

My wife is older than me and dragged me to one of Frank Sinatra's last concerts.  Talk about geezer. He couldn't remember some of the words to his own songs.  It was painful to watch.

could have been worse.  could have been nancy!

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« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2009, 10:10:40 AM »

When the Channel 15 Super Bowl would come back and start bithcing, he'd stomp the foot pedal on the floor and smack 'em with 3KW carrier and 100% downward modulation. Back-modulating, he called it. That is the correct CB term IIRC.


The pinnacle of power was the remains of a gutted and shoddily rebuilt Chippewa there with three paralleled 4-400's in GG, all plates with holes melted in them (I did not know you could do that with a 4-400 and have it still work), a single-band L-network of copper tubing using only a (huge) loading cap, and the separate power supply was JS'd up with a Dahl transformer and made 4500V. I had seen that setup peg the bird with the 3KW slug and it had a clothes dryer plug on the cord with #6 wire. All HV terminals exposed! But they were well insulated from 40 years of cigar smoke.


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There's an engineer out West who designs huge amplifiers for these guys/CBers/fried brains. They have radio face-offs to see who can make the most power and or the loudest signal. They usually have HUGE diesel SUV's and extra alternators for the extra juice to generate literally thousands of watts. Can you imagine the RF exposure to 27 mhz just inches away from the human body?Huh

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« Reply #43 on: February 03, 2009, 10:20:40 AM »

Lot of young whippersnappers are paying +$100 to see the old geezer at Penn State:
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/1095947.html
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« Reply #44 on: February 03, 2009, 10:27:29 AM »

Can you say "sterilize yourself"

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« Reply #45 on: February 03, 2009, 10:34:16 AM »

If that actually made sense, it might be funny. Who is trying to relive the 1960's?



little bitta word play.

No, just not some washed up has been. There's nothing more pathetic than an over the hill ham trying to relive the 1960's. Sad. And then to put it along side the youth of todays new CB ham's makes it seem even more ridiculous. If these guys were to operate at some nursing home, then OK, it makes sense.

You geezers have fun watching. None of the crap for me.


 

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« Reply #46 on: February 03, 2009, 10:43:06 AM »

Excellent point. The $60T debt is ridiculous. But I say even if you take away the debt and any of the short-term benefits we derived, our standard of living would still be well beyond most of the rest of the world. There's a reason people are going through hell to get to this country, most doing it illegally. The reason is that their home country sucks.


Previous comments:

"Time to turn off the AM talk radio and take a look at the real world."

"Let them adopt capitalism, climb out of their socialist/communist fever swamps and begin to reap the rewards of our blueprint for prosperity."

------------

  

hmmmm... "...reap the rewards of our blueprint of prosperity" ... and the "real world " ?  


The "blueprint of prosperity" (the USA's economic system) is in debt for over $60 TRILLION  - direct and indirect obligations -   and some of this debt is held by other countries..

Please allow me rephrase my statement:  I sometimes wonder what the USA's CREDITOR or third world countries think when they see our over-the-top celebrations as we continue to spend like cheap pimps - with our businesses falling like dominos.  (Foreign countries are in as much - or more trouble than we are)

Yeah, yeah, I know... who cares what they think?



To put it in perspective, what does a stack of $60 TRILLION dollars look like? (The "real world")


Take a stack of tightly stacked $1000 bills.  Tie a string around them and put the pile on its side.

$1 million dollars reaches only 4" wide.

$1 Billion  reaches 333'.

$1 Trillion dollars reaches 63 miles

$60 Trillion reaches 3,780 miles of tightly stacked $1000 bills! That's over 700 miles wider than the USA. You'd have to drive for days at 100 mph to pass all those tightly stacked $1000 bills.  

And WE (you and me) owe it to someone.


That's the current financial status of the "blueprint for prosperity." (Which, BTW,  I believe is still the BEST system in the world - until we design something better)  I still think that if the last four presidents/administrations all used extreme frugal economic ethics like Jimmy Carter tried to do, as ineffective as he was, we wouldn't be in this pickle.

So, instead, $60 Trillon's the "real world."  It don't get much realer than that.   :-)

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« Reply #47 on: February 03, 2009, 10:47:31 AM »

Lot of young whippersnappers are paying +$100 to see the old geezer at Penn State:
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/1095947.html

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« Reply #48 on: February 03, 2009, 10:55:01 AM »


Marie Antoinette said it more eloquently:  "Let them eat cake."


Juvenal said it more clearly:

… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

                                                     (Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)


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(Quote is from Wikipedia: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses)
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« Reply #49 on: February 03, 2009, 11:01:09 AM »

Wasn't really intended to be funny. I was trying to show how a statement like that can be changed ever so slightly and be applied to anything. As far as hams stuck in the 60's, there's nowhere to begin. Being a low class 5wpm loser ham with a license only 5 years old, I've had my fair share of geezers shoot me down off the air solely based on the fact that I wasn't born in 1930. This is my reason for coming to AM in the first place as it's a better class of operators and most everyone is always arms open instead of gates closed. That wasn't intended to be a personal dig, not by any means.

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If that actually made sense, it might be funny. Who is trying to relive the 1960's?



little bitta word play.

No, just not some washed up has been. There's nothing more pathetic than an over the hill ham trying to relive the 1960's. Sad. And then to put it along side the youth of todays new CB ham's makes it seem even more ridiculous. If these guys were to operate at some nursing home, then OK, it makes sense.

You geezers have fun watching. None of the crap for me.


 

It's almost funny, but sad, how so many things in this life are easily interchanged. Wink
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