Just letting off steam!

[JAP]

suttontrust,

And what's wrong with online dictionaries!  And online maps!  That's my pet peeve; people who ask questions instead of Googling for an answer - and to do that, they wouldn't even have to leave the computer.  Don't get me started on emoticons, avatars, etc!

Incidentally Su, I try to be helpful and to answer such questions where appropriate - but I also try to explain how one can find out the answer, and I try to provide appropriate URLs.  I'm a great believer in the saying 'give a person a fish, you feed that person for a day; teach a person how to fish, you feed that person for life'.

Judy

PS: Pam, what a cat!
PPS: Tricia Q, a quick Google finds that "well pleased" has a long and honourable history.  It appears even in the Bible, King James version (Luke 3:22) and in Shakespeare (The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, Act IV, Scene X)!

[acorngen]

Trystan,

Did you use to use the old 4 meg Am radio or 2 meg with split morse and voice?

Blimey now I am showing my age remembering 4meg am radio.

Seriously though, does it really matter how one types on these sites.  Using text talk does annoy me because some of the words they shorten could be said correctly with one letter extra added.  I do think though that lol lmao Blimey are fine because they let one know what the intention in a post was, after all how many of us have read a post and thought how rude is that?  yet upon seeing the LOL realised it was said tongue in cheek.

As for checking dictionaries hmmmmm I wonder how many of today's households have one.  But there are plenty of occupation sites they could have looked for without resorting to this list but then as I have been told recently that is what these boards are for

Rob

[trystan]

Rob,

You are showing your age, LOL (whoops!)

I got my C&G Amateur Radio licence when I was 17, then passed my RA morse a year later. I was totally skint, so the only gear I could afford was radio equipment with only morse...

 I spent four years on that old piece of kit bashing out dots and dashes.... sending out "73" ("--.... ...--") for "best wishes" and lots of "hehe" (".... .. .... ..").

I was like some spy in the time of the cold war. A compact transceiver in a suitcase, I'd throw out a length of wire with a beer mat attached to the bottom of it, and with less power than a flashlight, I'd be talking to people in lands I'd never heard of before. Our "abbreviations" and "Q-codes" bridged language barriers, and allowed us to to communicate...

My best was I set up my radio to test it before I left home for university, and I made contact with a chap called Roger in Melbourne ("VK2RO"). In never managed to get as far as that again on the incredibly low power that I could afford.

It reminds me, I must rig it all up again before I forget how to bash that key again....

Oh well... happy days.... oh well....
Trystan
(My aplogies for going off on a total and absolute tangent there)

[Sisterjane]

Hi
Iwas down at my bro-in-laws last week and he was up in loft sorting through some old boxes and found  his pride and joy his 8 track cassette player it looks like a piece of old junk to me but what made me laugh was the size of the cassettes they are like suitcases
Joe

[JAP]

Hey Joe,

Cassettes!  Must be one of those new-fangled inventions!

As a well meaning, well intentioned and normally well behaved person, I'm well pleased to be able to say that out in my garage I have some well preserved semaphore flags!

They are probably well suited (even well adapted - for exercise purposes at the very least) to a well educated (semaphore-wise) person of my vintage!

Perhaps I would have been well advised to resist the temptation of this post - it is, surely, not well chosen and probably will not be well appreciated and will ensure that I am not well respected!

Judy (unfortunately not well off)
PS: Joe and Trystan, what about those early hard disks - size of wagon wheels!  Or were they well before your time ...
PPS: "Well glad"?  I've not heard that!

[Berlin-Bob]

I remember one time (thirty years ago !) when we had a hard disk delivered to the office.  It took 6 (SIX !) people to unload it off the lorry and we nearly dropped it !!!!!

And that was for a state-of-the-art, whacking great 1 MB (I repeat, ONE Megabyte) disk !

Nowadays I have a USB stick with 512 MB in my pocket (and I have to root for it, if the pocket is big)

I must stop now and go to Potsdam, visiting a customer. I shall take with me a 40 GB portable disk, about the size of a paperback ...

"See" you all later ....

[deadants]

Rob,

You are showing your age, LOL (whoops!)

I got my C&G Amateur Radio licence when I was 17, then passed my RA morse a year later. I was totally skint, so the only gear I could afford was radio equipment with only morse...

 I spent four years on that old piece of kit bashing out dots and dashes.... sending out "73" ("--.... ...--") for "best wishes" and lots of "hehe" (".... .. .... ..").

I was like some spy in the time of the cold war. A compact transceiver in a suitcase, I'd throw out a length of wire with a beer mat attached to the bottom of it, and with less power than a flashlight, I'd be talking to people in lands I'd never heard of before. Our "abbreviations" and "Q-codes" bridged language barriers, and allowed us to to communicate...

My best was I set up my radio to test it before I left home for university, and I made contact with a chap called Roger in Melbourne ("VK2RO"). In never managed to get as far as that again on the incredibly low power that I could afford.

It reminds me, I must rig it all up again before I forget how to bash that key again....

Oh well... happy days.... oh well....
Trystan
(My aplogies for going off on a total and absolute tangent there)

Amazing, a fellow ham. I wonder how many  other hams frequent this forum. We should make a contact using echolink sometime.

73's deadants

[kerryb]

Actually if we all resort to looking up our own occupations etc we may as well do away with this site - rather defeats the object - me thinks!!!!!!!!!

kerryb

[JAP]

Actually if we all resort to looking up our own occupations etc we may as well do away with this site - rather defeats the object - me thinks!!!!!!!!!

kerryb

Steam away, kerryb!  Though what's wrong with simply not reading such threads!?   ESPECIALLY not reading threads in The Lighter Side!

Actually, I suspect that if my grandchildren (especially my senior school granddaughter) were to read this thread, they would have no doubt that discussion of semaphore, morse code, and enormous wagon wheel hard disks of minute capacity, falls well into the ambit of serious (not lighter side) genealogy or at least family history!  Which, of course, includes the experiences of our/their ancestors.

Very best regards,

Judy