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[Kansas]

Re: OK, the ice cream is good but.....

> > I hope that was in jest.
>
> Intended as a harpoon shot (none dare call it "lampoon") at
> the entire state of Vermont where the politics have changed
> so radically in the last 20 years that nobody who was born
> there even bothers to vote anymore. They get outvoted by
> refugees from New York City so consistently that there's
> just no point in wasting the gas to go to the polls.
>
> Good rumor circulating that there'll be a proposition on the
> Vermont ballot in 2006 to pick up the whole state and move
> it to the left coast.
>
> Used to be fun, of a Friday evening, to stand around the
> parking lot of a Friendly's just off the expressway and
> watch the Caddies with NY plates roll in. Inevitably they'd
> ask: "Kin ya tell me howta get'ta Vermont?" And all
> assembled would nod sagely and say: "Ehhh, yup." Then
> settle back and wait for them to rephrase the question.
> Most never did. Just burned rubber and drove off; sometimes
> in the wrong direction.
>
> If in doubt, and if reception permits, listen for an hour or
> two to the programming on WDEV, 550, Waterbury, VT. The
> sound good for such a small market but one wonders on what
> planet that small market might exist!
>
> But there IS this puzzle! Take a look at the power
> authorized to WDEV
> on The FCC AM Query web page:
>
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=54866#10003
>
> Only in Vermont could a station with that power be heard so
> far! They
> have solved the energy shortage without even having had to
> put tail pipes
> on cows.
>

I don't know much about Vermont radio...but I love Vermont Sharp Cheddar cheese--and Vermont maple syrup too! Mmmmm!

 

[Les]

Re: OK, the ice cream is good but.....

> I don't know much about Vermont radio...but I love Vermont
> Sharp Cheddar cheese--and Vermont maple syrup too! Mmmmm!

Used to keep a small folding knife hanging from a knob on the dash of
my old MGB. Great to cruise the cheese factories around Rutland of a
beautiful fall day with a box of crackers and 1/4 pound from each of
about five places. Coolidge's was about the best but there was one
little place around Ludlow which made a killer Colby!

A little fresh cider to wash it down... but you're safer with the
pasturized stuff. Got a nasty case of beaver-fever (Giardia) from
one batch of really fresh, unfiltered cider.

And all the way chuckling over the (even then) programming on WDEV.
The wonderful station which The FCC website lists as authorized for
0 (thas right, zero) kiloWatts but which has a really good signal.
Gotta figure out how they do that!
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