I would have had it been me.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Pat Byrne
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 4:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CW contest this weekend

I sure as hell would have.
Pat, K9JAUAt 02:05 PM 2/20/2016, you wrote:
>Ron, I am almost a solid c w person and you ought to send that lid that 
>sent
>you that e-mail to go to hell and that he is a piss poor ham.  73
>
>
>
>ED K7UC
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
>Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 12:49 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: CW contest this weekend
>
>Regarding the CW activity this weekend, I am stuck with this old, but 
>goody,
>World War II straight key, and no way can I send 30 or 35 wpm with it, and
>nobody will give me the time of day stumbling along at 15 wpm!! You guys
>won't believe me about this, but honestly, I even received an email message
>from a station who told me to stay off the bands if I couldn't run with the
>big boys at least 30 wpm. My paddle went to Heaven with Justice Antonin
>Scalia, and I am trying to do my best with this straight key. It is the key
>I started with way back in my Novice days in 1957, and it is still a super
>fantastic key, but it doesn't go like my paddle did! <lol> Plus, these old
>hands aren't as fast and coordinated as they were when I was a teenager!
>
>Ron, K8HSY