YIKES! I thought this was going to Ken and Don via private email. Sorry for the "List-clutter," folks. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:59 PM Subject: Re: NON PD, (Nostalgia for old radios) >SMACK!!! So YOU'RE the guy who's been cutting off all of the >whiskers on the neighborhood's cats! BAD KEN!!! > >And here you are trying to get poor dear innocent DON to do the >same thing??? > >Have you no SHAME?! <smirk> > >GO GET 'EM, Scooter 'n Buzzy! It's open season on KEN! > >Barb Mallut >[log in to unmask] > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: KEn Becker <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 7:48 PM >Subject: NON PD, (Nostalgia for old radios) > > >>Don, why didn't you have a crystal radio? Then you did not need a >battery, >>just a long antenna wire and a big punch bowl so you could drop >in the >>earphones and everyone could hear! I used to make them with an >oatmeal box >>to wrap the tuning coil around and sit for a long time with the >"catwhisker" >>to find a "hotspot" on the galena crystal..but that was a long >time ago, >>maybe 10 years! LOL >>Ken "Too cheap to buy batteries"