re: random question about TexAgs: Why do they charge for the radio segments

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That would have been radio gold

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I know, right? I probably would have been put on a blacklist of callers you never, ever accept a call from. I could live with that.

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Fortunately my knowledge of the origin isn't firsthand

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For your dad it probably was, and I'll gloss over how hard it must have been for a black kid in the Corps in those days. Short version: Your dad has my eternal respect. I'd HOPE the practice was on it's way out by then, but don't know. My fish year I and my best friend from my hometown... call him DP, because that was his name... got called down to a Jr's room to have our arse beat. Not for any transgression but for some idiotic sense of "good bull". Before the arse-beating DP told the Jr, "Mr. Boyd, sir. I don't believe you could beat your way out of a wet paper bag with that axe handle, sir." Oh, thanks, DP

DP was a Cobra pilot who went down and died with his crippled Cobra 32 years ago. Seems like yesterday. I miss him every day, but not for his comments to Mr. Boyd