STATEMENTI don’t know where this terse statement came from or where it should be going. I found it among a varied select of printed materials which had been accumulated by Amateur Radio Operator WA4MTP over the years and passed along to KA4WSI.
I don’t think the sentiment expressed by the statement, necessarily, applies to amateur radio. I can think of score of situations where such an announcement might have been fitting.
I have seen others I have liked:
“If you're so damned smart; why ain't you rich!?” That was in a doctor's office.
Another – in the Parts Department of a large plant manufacturing heating and air-conditioning units. Roped securely, a bright, canvas banner read:. “NOTICE: Hang on to anything you bought with you! If lost here it would take YEARS to find it!”
Here is the rather odd notice as printed in quarter-inch caps with India Ink – black:
WE, THE WILLING,
LED BY THE UNKNOWING,
ARE DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE
FOR THE UNGRATEFUL.
WE HAVE DONE SO MUCH
FOR SO LONG
WITH SO LITTLE.
WE ARE NOW QUALIFIED TO DO
ANYTHING WITH NOTHING.
Where can you imagine such a statement to have been posted .....and why?
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 8-19-06 [c211wds]
