[QuadList] Another One

[georgenann at aol.com]

Hi Guys,
 
I would be careful, if Ted is going to fine us for chatter about helical's on the "Quad" list, what is he going to charge for "Camera" chatter??   I would hide all those 401K's, etc. if he gets the idea.
 
While digging thru the old memory about the 1200F, I came across another incident thich made me popular with some of the CBS folks.
 
I had informed one of the ops. mngrs. "We Needed a PAL Cleaning Tape For The PAL Digibetas". I didn't want to use the NTSC Cleaning Tape on the PAL machines, I was affraid it might damage the heads.
 
I don't know if she bit or not, but she spent quite some time in her office on the phone and out of our (Maint) hair. I was hoping she would as I was going to extend it by telling her the same about the D-2's.
 
For you Navy guys,  I let one slip.  One day a fellow stuck his head in my office and asked if I needed anything from "Supply", that he was going there.  Just as a quick response I said "Yes, Would He Mind Picking Up some Sound Powered Phone Batteries".  (This joke goes back to John Paul Jones days). He must not have gotten enough sleep the night before because  he told the Chief that "Keller Needs Some Sound Powered Phone Batteries" and the Chief knew just what to do, had him running all over for an hour or so.
 
What made it great is that he was an officer, slightly junior to me, a ham and maint background. I see him from time to time at our reunions and kid him about it and he just looks at me and tells me he doesn't remember the incident at all, and I remind him that "Denial is not a River in Egypt", and I buy him a beer.
 
There are a million of these out there, wonder if anyone else (Besides Don at WTVJ) has had the opportunity to pull any??
 
My son who was an M.P. (Sgt), while in K-Town had some guy running all over trying to get him a box of "Grid Squares", among other things.  I don't know where he gets these ideas.
 
Some of my favorites were "D.F.Bearing Grease" or "Classified Chad" from the TTY tape perfs just to name a couple.
 
DE,
 
George Keller





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