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> I got a message today from the National Organization For Amateur Radio,
> The American Radio Relay League (ARRL), wanting me to confirm my Life
> Membership data. I recognized the number, and called the place, and they
> have had several calls, questioning the legitimacy of the email (it was).
I'm zero toerance no for phone spam -- it's gotten to be too darned much &
I'm registered with our National Do Not Call Rgistry, to boot!
I can have any call, even blocked numbers, traced by hitting *57 after the
caqll -- the info goes directly to our national police's call fraud &
harrassnent dept.
I noted a nwes item recently that my telco had been explicitly ordered to
block spam calls better. 9prolly source of the robocalls is Skype or such &
no way to prove who started it, especially as they use VPNs to bounce around
the world & back. . so they went to the next best way to stem the tide --
the telco accepting the calls & relaying the to me(& others). .
Our federal communications org has before fined a corp over $1bn(small
potatoes for Bell) for spamming. . . so everyone knows they have power &
authority & will use it!
> As for the BBS message, I figure once a month is sufficient.
I agree, especially considering the frequency of callers to Fido & the low
numbers. . . in 1,000+ posts a month, several of the ame ad might get lost,
but not in today's traffic. . .
Fido can be strict -- I & my comod once got over a billion people cut off
from Fidonet (all of Indian subcontinent--this was after multiple warnings to
all the nodes involved)
> I think of the blooper from a church who got 2 teams together on raising
> money for the sanctuary. One's slogan was "I Upped My Pledge. Up Yours".
True story: Two of Canada's maajor psarties once merged to create a new
federal party called Canadian Reformn Alliance Party -- t hey lasted witrh
that name only long enough for one newspaoper issue & t he letters that came
in mocking the unintended(or was it a fiendisj way to get free publicity?)
acronym!
It's now called the Progressive Conservatives (PCs) & does okay in elections.
. .
> There was another church that apparently didn't believe in "Together We
> Build". The preacher wired all the pews in the church with electricity.
So,
> he gets to the sermon on tithing, and says "Now, all you men and brethren,
> who feel led of The Lord to give $100 to the new building, stand up". He
> pushed a button, and 20 people sprang to their feet (like they had a
> choice??!!). "Excellent!!" the pastor says.
> He repeats his petition, raising it to $500, pushes another button, and
> 30 people sprang to their feet. "Glory!!" the pastor says.
> Then, he repeats his petition, raising it to $1000. He pulled the master
> control switch, and electrocuted 14 deacons.
Reminds me of the story of a chuyrch that needed much money for repairing the
crumbling ceiling.
The pastor got in the pulpit & asked who would pledge $100, $200, & still the
town's richest old man sat unmoving.
Then a piece of plaster fell on his head & he stood up & proclaimed, "I
pledge $1,000!"
The pastor is thanking him whenm nother piece hits the old man square between
the eyebrows. He leapyt up & said, 'Make that $5,000!"
The pastor looked towards Heaven and prayed aloud, "Hit him again, Lord!"
> GP> I've red some Josh McDowell -- interesing approach he takes. . . :)
> GP> I own his "Evidence" I & II somewhere & have cited him often. . .
> I read all of those a long time ago.
Me, too, cover to cover. . .
> were out on the lake fishing...and a thunderstorm developed (it could've
> been any day of the week). Well, one guy stands up, shakes his fist toward
> Heaven, and dares God to strike him dead.
> He was obliged, and killed instantly. By rights, the other 3 should've
> been killed from the spreading out charge from the lightning...yet, they
> were totally unharmed. That's an example of Divine Judgment and Divine
> Protection in one whack. Can you say "You shall not tempt The Lord, Your
> God??" :P
Some have pointed out that John Lennon was shot soon after saying,
publically, that the Beatles were bigger than God.
Other caess like this. . .
Sometimes people call out to God, in mockery, to kill them, "if He can" &
nothing happens -- proof that God gives us grace & lovingkindness, while
remaining slow to anger.
John Lennon had much influence on millions, Jimmy Smith not so much, & lives
with the opoprtunity to repent of his sin & be accepted & reborn. . .
It's a lesson to me as a parent -- dont jump all over every 'sin' my son
does, but weigh out the harm & how I can use it as an object lesson instead
of an opportunity to punish (actually "discipline"; because only abusers
"punish")
> GP> Q: How do dancers ensure job continuity during the Covid crisis?
> GP> A: They twerk from home.
> To a captive audience of dust bunnies.
& a phalanx of webcams, I hear. . . not my taste for entertabnment, though...
> GP> Q: How do you give an ice cube an identity crisis?
> GP> A: Drop it like its hot
> Just not in hot grease.
oh, noooo. . . minimum water in the hot grease. . .
> GP> Did you know that dolphins have existential crisis too?
> GP> They wonder if their life has a porpoise.
> That was rather fishy, but you did it for the halibut.
How did you guess? You know me, apparently!
punnies, funnies, &/or all-round cheekiness. . .
One day, two guys Frank, and Bob, were out fishing. A funeral service passes
over the bridge they’re fishing by, and Bob takes off his hat and puts it
over his heart. He does this until the funeral service passes by.
Frank said, “Gee Bob, I didn’t know you had it in you!”
Bob replied, “It’s the least I could do. After all, I was married to her for
30 years.”
-=-
Q: What you get when four men go fishing and one comes back not catching
anything.
A: Three Men And A Baby.
I haven't fished in real life for years, but I have fished virtually for
lemon sharks by boat off the Florida Keys, & I think Great Whites &
Groupers(massive beasts -- best bait is half a tuna (~100lbs of bleeding
meat), but they were farther south. . .
in real life, as a kid went with my dad bar fishing for sockeye salmon, 10mi
drive, 30 minute hike through the woodfs on a trail only he could see, then
set ourselves up for a day of peace & quiet on the shore of the mighty Fraser
River!
Uaed to get our limit of 5 fish (15lbs+ sockeyes--the best meat on Earth)
Now it's $12 for an 8-10lb sockeye & only if you're friends with a First
Nations member (I have a courtesy cousin, but it's not worth the 10hour trip
to the coast for her, for an order of less than 100 fish, guaranteed)
Safeway is over $25/lb,. so nuts to that & double nuts to Atlantic(aka
farmed) salmon -- garbage meat!
I do love my sockeye, though. . . & miss it. . .
Your friend,
<+]:{)}
Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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