I'll take the hat.

Phil.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicki and The Rors" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: My Christmas Present Revealed


> All of you three guys are just too funny.
>
> I heard of a church once where the hat, you could take out or put in
> depending on your frame of mind.  So my question to the hat handlers, did
> you take out or put in???  LOL!
>
> Vicki
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:30 PM
> Subject: My Christmas Present Revealed
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> >