[pure-silver] Re: TESTING; no posts

Bob, I haven't followed all this, so don't know what Becky said about her name... but my married name is Cull. You can see where that goes. (I tried to get him to take mine - Gable ;o)
When we moved to NC from Florida, my new neighbor brought me a flat of eggs from the chicken house where she worked. She said, "they're just culls, but you can eat'm". I (naively) laughed and said, "oh my goodness, that's my name. Cull. Did you know that?" 

She just dryly said, "uh huh".
When we went to the elementary school to meet the principal he took us around to meet a few teachers. He said, "these are the culls. I mean, not really, but..." 

hm.
My husband used to say, "cull is a process". I guess that sounded better to hiim. Anyway he's too good a man for me to make a real issue over this last name he's been handed. He's a *real* keeper! 

Janet CULL, with a smile



On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:20 AM, BOB KISS wrote:


DEAR BECKY,
            Further OT.
You speak more truth than you know. When I was an adolescent my last name was a serious liability. In the boys locker room it was “Kiss my (fill in the blank). I definitely learned “fight or flight” depending on how many of them there were. By the time I was 13 I hit 6’ 4” and at 14 my brother had me working out on a speed bag and heavy bag. It only took one or two more confrontations to make things quiet down. As I also began fencing at 13, I adopted the same attitude as Cyrano (paraphrasing), “The reason I will run you through is not that you have disparaged my nose but that you did it with neither grace nor originality!” I always enjoy a good joke at my expense…as long as it is original. Also, at about 14 my name became an asset in my meetings with lovely young women. A smile always closely followed an introduction where my last name was mentioned and it was a great way to broach the subject. Sooooooooooooo, my “boy named Sue” syndrome paid off! It also didn’t hurt when I worked as a fashion photographer…catchy name. There is one other profession where my name might have been even more appropriate but THAT I will tell you if you contact me off list! 
                        CHEERS!
                                    BOB
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ew... I'm telling! You boys are talking about ISP carriers, taxes and other things that are not darkroom related! TROUBLE... you are all going to be in... t r o u b l e ! Just as soon as I figure out who to tell.
Since we are off topic anyway, can I just say that I love your name, Bob Kiss. How cool that when we get emails from you, we can all say that we've been "Kissed"! Today I was "Kissed" a lot! Bob Kissed, that is. 

Yours, closer to having the darkroom up and running,

Becky Lynn, the Peeper.
geez, I must be overly tired tonight to actually be sending this email..... but here goes. 




On 10/28/07, BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DEAR RICHARD,
You are absolutely right...with modern tech there is no reason for 
long distance to cost more than local but, as I said, our telecom
carrier/ISP is simply raping us because it is not traditional in this
culture to have a consumer revolution or even an organized protest. As 
previously mentioned, the telecom carrier/ISP brags that the highly
profitable Caribbean is underwriting all of their other less profitable 
regions.  That is what I call arrogance but we live with it every day.
       A good friend of mine was head of the local International
Development Bank and he stated that he found it very difficult to attract some new businesses and investments to Barbados because of the outrageous cost of telecom which plays such an enormous part in the profitability of 
some businesses.
       Soooooooooooooo, this isn't just my griping...it is the reality
("What a concept!" Robin Williams)
               CHEERS?
                       BOB

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> DEAR JEFFREY,
> We used to pay $3 per minute and now, due to competition,
> they
> charge us $1.90 per minute for overseas calls.  Try to
> justify that in any
> way except consumer rape!  They have had the
> infrastructure in place for
> decades.  Yes, they, like everyone else have had to
> upgrade their technology
> but why am I paying nearly 5 times what you are?  C'mon.
> Admit it.  Our
> local carrier who is also our ISP is a Pirate of the
> Caribbean!  Still wear
> earrings but carry valises instead of sabers!
> CHEERS!
> BOB
>
  With satellite at least there really is no reason for
international calls to cost more than local calls. The
current international telephone network operates very much
like the internet, that is, its a spider web network
operating on a kind of packet basis that's there all the
time.

---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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