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From: "Brad D" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: My Christmas Present Revealed


> Thank you for that wonderful introduction Brother Phil. As your guest
> speaker this morning, I say morning because the east coast is now early
> morning, anyway I'd like to call your attention to the  offering hat, the
> very one I had on when I decided to fish from the bottom of the lake and
> which I will use to buy a more stable boat upon its return to me filled
> with all your wonderful love offerings. With such offerings as this I can
> continue to do the Lord's work in fleshing out such little  misguided
> secrets as we've seen in Brother Phil here. Ask him though, he feels much
> more a cleaner man with this big secret off his head, very much similar to
> his hair now that I think of it... I digress. Well anyway Thanks to
> Brother
> John for paving the way for me me to be here today and pass that huge huge
> hat around.I feel the Lord telling me that some of you have held back from
> giving to him over this past year and now is the time to bring that guilt
> out in the open in a tangible way, all in one sum. never mind if the hat
> seems to not contain all you have, an extra zero or two to the left of the
> decimal takes up no more room. What is important is to flush out that
> devil
> form your wallets and purses and do not let him tell you such lies like...
> "Who is this guy? Who does he think he is asking for my money? Haven't you
> given enough?" and so on. Lies, lies lies they are all lies from the pit
> and just take a step of faith and . Now as the hat is being passed about
> we'll listen to a secular, but very appropriate song by the brothers of
> the
> secular band Pink Floyd entitled "Money". Thank you and don't forget to
> overcome that nasty devil right now, right here... you may not have
> another
> opportunity in life to secure God's blessing on it.
>
> Oh Brother Brad
>
>
>
> At 10:30 PM 12/17/2004, you wrote:
>>Well, Since Brad tried playing the fourth personage of the Trinity with
>>his
>>conviction bit about keeping secrets from the family and all, for Pete
>>sake.
>>You'd think he was preaching a Sunday sermon or something trying to make
>>me
>>feel guilty and all.  The next thing you know, Brad will be taking up
>>offerings so he can buy a bigger boat.  Below is the review old brother
>>John
>>was talking about which he read on another list.
>>
>>I was able to begin using my Christmas present early for one
>>simple reason.  I was home when Federal Express delivered it and
>>my wife was gone.  I knew what it was, or was pretty certain I
>>knew, and so I opened it while she was gone and began using it.
>>No.  She wasn't happy.  It was my Christmas present anyway so
>>what's the beef?  What was it, you ask?  It was a set of Bose
>>headphones you have heard advertised so I thought I would report
>>on these 300 dollar headphones just in case you were thinking
>>about getting them for Christmas.  Are they worth it, is the first
>>question you are asking.  Of course not.  Nothing Bose sells is
>>worth what they charge for it and we own one Bose small radio and
>>that big thousand dollar hummer called the Bose Acoustic Wave
>>Radio.  Yes, they all sound wonderful.  Yes, I have compared them
>>to other systems I have and I do believe they sound better.  No, I
>>don't believe they are worth nearly what they ask for them and the
>>same goes for the noise canceling headphones.  However, you put
>>these headphones on as a blind person, and it drives you crazy
>>until you turn some music or sound on.  Why?  Because, you can't
>>hardly hear a thing with them on.  The pads are as soft as, well,
>>I won't say it, but they are soft.  Mind you, they aren't as good
>>as sex but few things are.  Come to think of it, nothing is but I
>>digress.  This also depends highly on your age, of course, but
>>again I digress.  No, there is only one tiny, little, itty bitty
>>switch on the wire which plugs into the headset.  This switch is
>>used for double the volume based upon the type of output you are
>>plugged into.  It comes with a very fancy, zippered, sturdy,
>>carrying case but I have never carried headphones in a carrying
>>case in my entire life.  It is a fancy carrying case, however, and
>>you can store the cables inside the zipper case, too.  It comes
>>complete with extra adapters for various jack sizes and an extra
>>extension cable incase you want to sit 400 feet away from the
>>sound source to which you are plugged into.  I hate wires.  I also
>>got the free, if you want to call it that, little battery powered
>>CD player and I like it quite a lot.  It uses two double A
>>batteries.  The headset, by the way, runs on a single double A
>>battery.  Yes, all batteries are included.  For 300 dollars, I
>>should hope so.  The CD player is very user friendly for the blind
>>user, that is, and you can select mixed songs, that is, at random,
>>repeat the same song, no skip mode, very handy of course with a
>>portable CD player, and start over again automatically.  There's
>>one other menu setting but I forget what that is right now.  you
>>can also pick nothing.  Less than correct grammar but those are
>>the choices.  No, unfortunately, for your 300 dollars, you don't
>>get a stupid carrying case for the portable CD player.  Beats me
>>as to why.  Are they better than the forty dollar models of
>>headphones at Radio Shack?  Well, yes, I think so.  The plus here,
>>of course, is the noise canceling feature which is built in.  No,
>>you cannot control the noise canceling feature, unless, of course,
>>I have somehow overlooked something.  If you own the CC Radio Plus
>>from C Crane, the jack for the headphones on FM is in stereo.
>>That's nice so the Bose headphones sound very nice with the CC
>>Radio Plus.  Keep in mind, absolutely nothing that Bose makes is
>>fancy with lots of bells and whistles.  this is, I have been told,
>>for the benefit of the elderly, a category I am rapidly fitting
>>into, so they don't have to get things to confused for the
>>decrepid users.  Come to think of it, I do fall into that category
>>right now.  It all sounds good, of course, but for the price you
>>pay, it should sound good.  Would I call these headphones
>>professional?  I think so, but that is largely based upon the
>>price.  I am dead serious when I say that it drives you crazy to
>>wear the headphones without any music turned on.  I can hardly
>>hear my own talking watch speak unless I hold it up to my ear.
>>With music or sound playing, I cannot hear anything but what I'm
>>listening to.  My grand son came out the other day and had to tap
>>me on the knee because I flat out could not hear his voice.  Oh,
>>yes, they are super comfortable to wear.  If you buy these extra
>>expensive headphones, however, and are expecting all sorts of nice
>>do dads, like individual volume controls, base and treble
>>controls, levers and switches and buttons, and a fifteen button
>>equalizer you can diddle around with, forget buying the headphones
>>from Bose.  If you like music, and if you want super quiet luxury,
>>and if you want to brag to your friends that you own a 300 dollar
>>pair of headphones, then I recommend you buy them.  If you don't
>>feel the necessity of bragging to your friends, spend the 300
>>dollars on a bottle of Viagra instead.  One final word of advice.
>>Don't leave the headphones any place where your dog can get to
>>them in order to chew them up.
>>
>>Phil.