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Offline RST111

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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2017, 0845 UTC »
Quote from: R4002 on May 12, 2017, 1650 UTC
I wonder if sales of export radios and modified CB equipment will slow down with the solar minimum.

Don't know about that, but I suspect the sale of 8 pill and higher linear amps will go up.  ;D
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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2017, 1132 UTC »
Quote from: Chanter on May 18, 2017, 0533 UTC
Ugh!  I thought we were already *at* the darn solar minimum...  :( 

Oh no, things will get much worse  ;D
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Offline Chanter

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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2017, 2346 UTC »
*eyes the news* Re: that revolting Sound Garden song...  I should not have said a word, should I?  Didn't know anything had happened to the lead singer at the time I posted, but I still feel like something of a heel now. 
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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2017, 0122 UTC »
Quote from: Chanter on May 18, 2017, 2346 UTC
*eyes the news* Re: that revolting Sound Garden song...  I should not have said a word, should I?  Didn't know anything had happened to the lead singer at the time I posted, but I still feel like something of a heel now. 


I'm a fan but I perceived no insensitivity in your remark. I figured you hadn't heard the news when you posted. I don't think it had broken yet. I only heard this morning myself.
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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2017, 0257 UTC »
People are dying today that never died before. Like poor old Roger Ailes. I heard Satan and Franco were waiting for him at the gates of Hell. They figure if he could get Nixon elected in 1968, it would be a cinch for him to get them out of their predicaments.
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Offline Chanter

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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2017, 0456 UTC »
Cheers, MDK2. 

Pigmeat, I should not have laughed at that last... but oh brother, did I! 
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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2017, 1939 UTC »
When you make dead guy jokes you've got to consider the reputation of the man along with the timing, Chanter. Posting a joke about Ailes going to Hell and using his skills to help Satan and Franco wouldn't have the same punch if I'd waited until he was in the ground.
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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2017, 2028 UTC »
I give all you folks permission to laugh your buttocks off when I kick off :-)

And the jokes... anything goes unless it messes with the HFU policy...  off line everything goes :-)

I believe in eternal life...  And if the theories hold up that you can't destroy energy... Well I'll go tap dancing on a lot of graves...  Prepare for a tap tap tap to all in a box below the ground.

As for my dead husk...  I, like George Carlin, want to be blown up... not in a box, or burned, toss a few holy handy-grrr-naids me... Get drunk and have a BBQ and smoke some pan...  errrr... pot?

man.... where the hell is my medication...  suddenly feeling dizzy...   arg.... <<<<thud>>>>

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Offline BoomboxDX

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Re: Solar Minimum
« Reply #23 on: May 20, 2017, 1522 UTC »
Quote from: Chanter on May 18, 2017, 2346 UTC
*eyes the news* Re: that revolting Sound Garden song...  I should not have said a word, should I?  Didn't know anything had happened to the lead singer at the time I posted, but I still feel like something of a heel now. 


You have never struck me as someone who would be insensitive like that. Like MDK2 I figured you hadn't heard the news yet.

No offense taken here, and I'm a Soundgarden fan.

Chris Cornell, RIP....
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