Subj : Wouff-Hong
To   : Ed Vance
From : Roy Witt
Date : Wed Aug 09 2000 11:23 am

Hello Ed.

09 Aug 00 13:33, you wrote to me:

EV> Your tagline in another message said:

EV> The Uggerumph, the Rettysnitch and the Wouff-Hong can serve again!

EV> IIRC the Wouff-Hong was made from two sticks, 1 long and 1 short,
EV> fastened together by wrapping a rag around them, and was used by The
EV> Old Man (T.O.M.) to torture LIDS (Poor Operators).

Uh huh.

EV> No, I wasn't around when the original articles were written in QST!
EV> I'm just trying to recall what I read a L-O-N-G time ago about
EV> Amateur Radios' early days.

I wasn't around then either, but I've got the Ole Man's biography here in
my library.

EV> Was the Uggerumph and Rettysnitch just other names for the
EV> Wouff-Hong?

I copied some of those lines directly out of the Ole Man's biography.
They're actual quotes used by HPM.  This was 2 or 3 years ago and I don't
recall exactly how it went, but all three were different tools used by
HPM.

EV> I've always tried to be a good LID.

Me too. It was many years ago that I went through a Wouuf-Hong ceremony
and received a certificate saying I'd passed.  I think that makes me a
lid in good standing.


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