Sorry, ain't finished, but it will be along. Dunno what I hit that made it send. Tree, if you see it first, please pull it. 73, Guy.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]>wrote: > Well, Cackle Fersus got up that morning and forever afterwards swore > something was bent about the day. Nothing has seemed straight or screwed > on all the way ever since, and probably won't ever be, unless he can find > the True Monopole. > > The morning started out with what was left of a dream that night where he > was hainted by his ancient elmer, GW3GW, reminding him from the old country > that the path to prosperity and pure signals on Top Band could only be had > by using a True Monopole, and speaking only True English into a True > Microphone. > > Cackle wasn't too bothered by the True English or True Microphone > specifications, since he had gotten into nearly exclusive CW, which was not > rectified into "wron wo kro" in the telephone, radio and phonograph of > left, across street, and right neighbors respectively. But the True > Monopole haint bothered Cackle greatly as he had imperfect early life > memories of experts pronouncing that only vertical monopoles could really > give one true happiness on Top Band. All the experts had seemed very tall, > and coincidentally rather monopolish themselves. > > Consequently that day, Cackle gathered himself up and did something he > hadn't done for years since he was cramming for his Extra license. He got > down his dusty, but still not filled spiral notebook, his EZ-Squeeze pen, > and headed off downtown to the big technical library at Old U to get the > True English definition of the True Monopole. How could one possibly do a > True Search for the True Monopole unless one knew the True Definition. He > was not at all prepared for what the search would cost him. > > > > But that wasn't a True Monopole. It was, Cackle realized with sorrowful > regret, a whole pole plus part of a pole in the hole. It was a One Point > One Pole. > > > > > > > > > > > > Morals of the Tale: > > You can't do a push without a pull, or a pull without a push, and to get > it out, you first have to put it in. So a Monopole can NEVER be True. But > Cackle understood the haint's good intentions, since the True Monopole > could only be found by not finding. The True Monopole > > So the True Monopole is like a snipe, whose superlative non-existence is > only understood in the not-finding in the hunt. Or it's like Upstate New > York, that never exists where it's pointed to, and only upon the southern > banks of the St. Lawrence river do you understand that the term itself was > a benign Canadian advertising scheme to get you to come up and tour Canada. > > or monopole experts -- you get out there and actually start looking for > them, they can't be found. > > > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
