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From: "Richard S Hill" <translations@qdnet.pl>
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Subject: LF: Odp: Re: BOOK
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:02:11 +0100
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Spoken like a true Aussie!

Gud on yer mate!

RSH
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Olney <ollaneg@zeta.org.au>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: LF: Re: BOOK


> G'day Mal (alias BIG KEV, or maybe not),
>
> >
> >     The book published here today by a man from AUS could be a best
> > seller.
> > The Lazymans CW for LF
> >  It could rival the LF paperback already in circulation, and selling at
> > a big price.
> > The public would buy anything.
> >
>
> Is that the best you can do ?    No denial that you are now a
> self-proclaimed proficient lazy man's CW operator ? (oops - you can't do
> that :-).    No denial that you are a self-proclaimed Grade 3 operator ?
> (oops - you can't do that :-).     No denial that you cause QRM by running
> 60 second dots at high power ? (oops - you can't do that :-).    No denial
> that you are just an appliance operator ? (oops - you can't do that :-).
> All that would require you to disagree with yourself.   Must be confusing.
>
> Saddest of all is there is no acknowledgement that you are riding on the
> backs of the very pioneers you harangued in the past.    My worst fears
have
> been realised - apparently the only big thing about you is the artificial
> erections you drone on about ad nauseam  (I thought I might try Latin as
you
> apparently have difficulty with your native tongue - even when you type it
> yourself :-).
>
> You have proved to at least my self that I was wrong.   I have been using
> the very affectionate nickname "BIG KEV".     That is quite obviously
> inappropriate as your failure to properly give due credit to the pioneers
> proves.    I need to get realistic and change that to "small mal".    I
> thought (because of your difficulty reading your native tongue) to utilise
> other languages to represent that affectionate nickname.    For example
"der
> Kleine Mal" - this rhymes with "decliner Mal", but that was ambiguous as
you
> have certainly declined to credit those whose work you have used to your
own
> advantage, however, you didn't decline to harangue those same benefactors
in
> the past.   Another possibility was "il piccolo Mal" - but that is too
> reminiscent of yet another mode which is off the official Mal approval
list
> (but keep checking - it may soon have the royal approval - like QRSS :-).
>
> No, it will just have to chance my arm with your native language (which I
am
> assuming is English) and move forward with the use of the very
affectionate
> nickname of "petite mal".
>
> Yours affectionately
> Steve VK2ZTO
>
>