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Originally Posted by 1stindoor
You talk pretty. 
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You crack me up sir - my Dylan Thomas-like rebellion against a colleague who was apparently injected with valley-girl toxin at an early age, and finishes every 3 words out of her mouth with a question mark. Being able to post that probably saved her life. I'm not sure there's any mentoring left in me for that one, so I focus on helping things one genius grand-daughter at a time.
Noting the comments about the instant-gratification generation I was astounded by comments on one of the amateur radio fora. It seems that, due to a solar event this past weekend, "the bands" were actually in the tank
for a few hours 
with apparent emotional meltdown of the SSB ragchewers. Way back, "atmospherics" was a neat reason to go do something else for awhile.*
* Good thing I didn't know about it; went all over the place this weekend on CW and an old Vibroplex.