[SOC] Abt the use of the Morse code

[Claude - F5PBL]

Bonjour � tous;

A short one from the FISTS ML, fyi

73!
Claude

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DIG #4451 - FISTS #7722 - SOC #503 - 10-X #71724


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From: "Jeff Davis" <ke9v@att.net>
To: <Fists@mailman.qth.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:06:04 -0500
Subject: [Fists] Morse in the Press

>From Bob Levy's column in the Washington Post Thursday August 22,
2002:
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47240-2002Aug21.html)

Morse Code won't do you much good in this era of split-second
communications. Morse is far slower and far tougher to learn than, for
example, instant messaging.
But once in a while, Morse can unite its fans in a gale of laughter.
Bill Santiff, a reader from Owings, explains how.

"I was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of Maryland 410
and 450 yesterday," Bill writes (in e-mail-ese, not Morse).

He was in the center of three lanes. "The lane to my left [was] full
of cars waiting to make a left turn on the green arrow.

"When the light changed, the car to my right suddenly zoomed ahead and
cut across both of our lanes to make a left turn in front of us.

"I slammed on my brakes and stopped just in time to avoid hitting the
idiot. [I] was about to mutter some choice comments on the other
driver's dubious parentage when the driver to my left tapped out a
crisp di-dah did-i-dit did-i-dit on his horn."

I'm not going to tell you what that message spells, because I love my
job and I love being able to pay my mortgage. Let's just say that, in
Morse, it gives you a three-letter word that is often preceded by
"horse's."

Bill responded as only a Morse-ist could. He tapped out did-ah-dit on
his horn. That's an R -- which means "Roger," to any and all who know
the code.

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73, Jeff
FISTS #6641
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