On Thursday 06 November 2008, Kenneth Lerman wrote: >Hi Gene, > >I don't know how it is now, but fifty years ago, a high school kid with >a copy of a study guide could pass the test for a first class phone >license first try.
I passed on the first try. And what's a "study guide"? Never cracked a book about it in the week or so before taking the test. OTOH, that was in '62 and I had already been fixing stuff with electronics guts for 13 years for a living. The legal is 100% common sense, and the electronic was stuff I'd already done, several times. Same scene, +10 years, different flu bug I think as I was sick with the trots both times, for the C.E.T. test. 123 of 125 correct. Back up to '52, I made a 98 on the AFQT. But then the next best test score in that 130 some boys was 36, so it was no wonder they picked 3 of us to go see their resident shrink & _that_ got me 4f'd. He made the mistake of asking me how I felt, and I had been working heavy machinery all summer, then went cold for 3 days. I was so muscle bound stiff I could hardly walk & I wasn't in what one could call a great mood. My reply to his question was "there isn't anything wrong with me that a hard days work, a good cigar, and a piece of ass wouldn't fix". He'd been programmed to mark smart-asses down, way down. But that did free me from having Korea & the draft hanging over my head, so I got on with my life as well as I could. Life, is what happens when you are busy making plans. Thanks Kenneth. [...] -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Q: How do you know when you're in the <ethnic> section of Vermont? A: The maple sap buckets are hanging on utility poles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
