Grey's Anatomy Slams Needlepoint

Maureen will be infuriated at being referred to as a "dried up" lady. As she was a Physical Training Instructor in the Women's Royal Army Corps I think ABC had better watch out.

I'm sure there are more than a few of us here who have it in us to beat up the ABC execs with one hand tied behind our backs. I sure wouldn't want to mess with Ellice and her hockey stick!

How right you are. This old lady, or as Gill so delicately put it the other day "olf fart", sent an email telling them to buzz off. I know it won't go far enough to mean much, but I tried.

Lucille

Some old lady my mom observed a while back threatened the twerp she was dealing with that if he didn't cooperate she was going to put her umbrella up his butt and open it. Yep, she's from NooYawk. :)

As a died in the wool NooYawka, I'll bet you a potato knish that she didn't say "butt."

Did you know that WAS Lucille ???

They did, but you know, considering the quality of the writing nowadays, that remark was totally shrug-off-able. (To be fair, the rest of the episode(s) was totally shrug-off-able, too.)

What's funny is that I was cross stitching as I was watching. DH said "you're not dried up".

For the last few years we have found that listening to the radio is much better than staring at the Idiot's Lantern.

Ditto, I even podcast so I have something on the mp3 to listen to during the sleepless hours. Yesterday I thought all the SNP items I was downloading had blown my 'puter up. As it turned out, it was just one of those things, all was well, then five minutes later the power went out.

I am a social leper, do not have a big flat screen television, only watch the news and Corrie and have the television (very old, maybe an antique, it is colour though) concealed in a cabinet - I don't even know the programme people are talking about. Ah well, no loss by the sounds of it.

It wasn't, but it sure could have been.

There's not much good on American radio, either.

And in this neighborhood, you can't listen to radio because a rap/hip-hop station intrudes on every other frequency. I've tried complaining, but was informed that this should have been done during the first year of their license. I have my suspicions that after the complaint period, they tweaked the transmitter to be in violation, because I didn't notice a problem in their first year on the air. (And when I complain to them, their response is "$^&%! you, ^%&*!")

I download audiobooks and put them on my ipod to listen to. I don't have to worry about looking at the tv, and I work my way through more books and have more time to stitch at the same time.

Do you know any amateur radio enthusiasts? Try ARRL if you don't. These chaps usually have one or two tricks up their sleeve when it comes to violations of frequency and / or transmitter usage

Do I infer you are a Ham too, Bruce??

Gillian KC5TEN

But not enough to miss a Who? (Or is that common phrase over in the UK?)

Tara

Not me. I was taught morse (21 wpm) and teleprinting (45 wpm) as a 16 year old RAF Boy Entrant then spent 12 years as an RAF Telegraphist followed by 30 years working for a Cheltenham-based government department involved in the reception of morse etc.

Ah, I see!! Neither of us did the Morse Code requirement when we got our technician licenses, as it wasn't required. Jim took the test for General frequently, and always flunked the 5 wpm Code; main reason is he saw no reason for it, and there are so many other means of ham communication, with computers, echoLink, satellites etc. As soon as FCC removed that requirement, he trotted up, upgraded to General Class, and will get the Extra sometime wwhen he gets around to it. He is an electronic, computer-type, and had no patience with dots and dashes!

If Jim is interested in computers he might like to try his hand at writing a program to receive hand-sent morse. There were several on the market which were very good on "perfect" morse but failed miserably on "normal" hand-sent morse.