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  • Re: My pet peeves

    From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JIMMY ANDERSON on Thu May 9 11:58:00 2019
    Jimmy,

    I use the "clock method". I identify at the top of the hour, then at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 after the hour. Then, I don't have to worry whether or not it has been 10 minutes.

    Good idea, but again if I'm driving home from work or between job sites JA>or something, I'm not watching the clock. :-) But I'll see if I can
    add that to my habits.

    It was just easier for me to do it that way. Now, the digital modes ID
    for you, but I go ahead and voice ID anyway.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JIMMY ANDERSON on Thu May 9 12:05:00 2019
    Jimmy,

    Well, if I know who I'm going to talk to, that's fine, but if I want JA>general chatter... :-) Probably not a good thing to start dialing
    random numbers. LOL

    I'll let the robocallers do that. :P

    ... Hey, look! A completely new undocumented fea&%$#*@ NO CARRIER

    Try the Sysop Editor door on the BBS, and you'll get something close
    to it...a screen noting "You've Been Busted!!", and it adds "If you
    thought you were going to get off easy, we're going to call YOUR
    MOTHER"!! <G>.

    You will get logged off with 4 of my logoff doors...

    1) Spiked -- you have to dodge the moving spiked walls. If you
    are "impaled", you're logged off. The longer you avoid the spiked walls,
    the higher your score is.

    2) Don't Wake The Sysop -- you have 4 ways to bug the Sysop. If you
    "wake him", you're logged off. You can page him, call him on the phone,
    knock on his door, or yell outside his window. He does have a nice pair
    of boots at the bedside, and a real nice quilt on the bed. <BG>

    3) The Complaint Department -- you see a welcome screen, and when you
    press <ENTER>, you're logged off.

    4) Plinko. If you hit LOSE, EXIT, or run out of chips, you're logged
    off.

    Some of the other "Logoff Doors" have a G)oodbye option in them, to
    logoff from the BBS. One is "Toilet Stall Graffitti Wall" -- 20 flushes
    in ANSI. Or, as I like to put it "ANSI Rooter, that's the name. Just
    flush your graphics down the drain"!! <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to SEAN DENNIS on Thu May 9 12:07:00 2019
    Hello Daryl,

    Hi, Sean...

    I don't use the 10 codes unless I'm telling someone I'm QRT for 10-100. :D

    When nature calls, you can't leave it to the answering machine. :P

    I do use "QSL?" at the end of a transmission when it's noisy and I do use SD>"QRM" and "QSB" a lot.

    Sometimes I run into that on D-Star, and more so on Echolink. But,
    lately, if I'm on D-Rats, Winlink 2000, or Packet via Outpost, I don't
    have to worry about that. I've moved 3 of my nets to the QuadNet Array,
    and can now get D-Star, DMR, and Fusion users.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to MIKE POWELL on Thu May 9 12:07:00 2019
    Mike,

    Convoy was the one I learned the lingo from. When I was a kid, we had that MP>album on 8 track. There were some other good songs on it, too, like MP>"Silverton Train."

    I don't remember Silverton Train. You can find the deal of "Convoy"
    with a search on YouTube.

    Daryl

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  • From Ray Quinn@1:214/22 to Mike Powell on Wed Jul 17 17:24:00 2019
    Mike Powell wrote to HOLGER GRANHOLM <=-

    I wasn't long enough on CB to learn the 10-codes.

    I know I am replying to a relatively old message, but I am a bit behind... Currently I am a truck driver here in California :-( . I have been all
    across the USA and small portions of our neighbors to the north, Canada. I just wanted to correct some things, as I understand them, if that is OK.

    10-4 is over and out

    10-4 - Acknowledge, affirmative, OK, etc.

    10-20 is location (as in "what is your 10-20"?)

    Correct

    IIRC some of the other lingo I learned:

    chicken coop - a highway rest area

    Chicken coop is a weigh/inspection station
    Rest areas are called, among other things, pickle parks.

    bears - the police (and maybe more specifically, the state highway
    patrol)

    Correct

    That is about it. :)

    There are many others, but I cannot bring them to mind.


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  • From Jimmy Anderson@1:116/17 to Ray Quinn on Sun Jul 28 13:19:00 2019
    Ray Quinn wrote to Mike Powell <=-


    10-4 is over and out

    10-4 - Acknowledge, affirmative, OK, etc.

    10-20 is location (as in "what is your 10-20"?)

    Correct

    IIRC some of the other lingo I learned:

    chicken coop - a highway rest area

    Chicken coop is a weigh/inspection station
    Rest areas are called, among other things, pickle parks.

    bears - the police (and maybe more specifically, the state highway
    patrol)

    That is about it. :)

    There are many others, but I cannot bring them to mind.

    Bubble Gum Machine - Beavers - Seat Covers - Back Door - Rocking Chair




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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Jimmy Anderson on Sun Jul 28 15:58:36 2019
    Re: Re: My pet peeves
    By: Jimmy Anderson to Ray Quinn on Sun Jul 28 2019 13:19:00

    Bubble Gum Machine - Beavers - Seat Covers - Back Door - Rocking Chair

    smokey, city kitty, county mountie, and four wheeler are four that immediately came to mind when reading this thread...

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  • From Jimmy Anderson@1:116/17 to Mark Lewis on Sat Aug 3 11:20:00 2019
    Mark Lewis wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

    Re: Re: My pet peeves
    By: Jimmy Anderson to Ray Quinn on Sun Jul 28 2019 13:19:00

    Bubble Gum Machine - Beavers - Seat Covers - Back Door - Rocking Chair

    smokey, city kitty, county mountie, and four wheeler are four that immediately came to mind when reading this thread...

    I know smokey (cause of the hats) - and countie mountie - is four wheeler
    a car? And city kitty - have NO idea...



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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Jimmy Anderson on Sun Aug 4 10:56:10 2019

    On 2019 Aug 03 11:20:00, you wrote to me:

    Bubble Gum Machine - Beavers - Seat Covers - Back Door - Rocking Chair

    smokey, city kitty, county mountie, and four wheeler are four that
    immediately came to mind when reading this thread...

    I know smokey (cause of the hats) - and countie mountie -

    yup...

    is four wheeler a car?

    yup, car or pickup truck...

    And city kitty - have NO idea...

    city police...

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