What is that language/code/whatevah?

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It's the language that killed the Pony Express and brought about a Victorian version of the Internet (no, seriously. There's a wonderful book based on the telegraph and the networks it created, attracting intelligent young professionals to run it -- they even hazed newbies by purposefully keying their code progressively faster so the neophyte couldn't keep up.)

In other words:

"Why can't we bring back an obsolete method of communication?" Tom asked remorsefully.

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*wince* Tom Swifties. Ow. heh.

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Sometimes I am so dense. It took me five minutes to get that "remorsefully" joke. We learned morse code in Girl Scouts. I should have remembered it, but was instead busy with paranoid fear of The Next Big Thing I Don't Understand.

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Also, "I love homosexual necrophelia!" said Tom in dead earnest.

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I'm going to pretend that I didn't translate that, Rob. Sheesh.

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S?

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I totally cheated.

http://www.scphillips.com/morse/trans.html

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*laugh*

thank you for that link.. I would never have even tried to take the time to translate it.. good one, rob :)

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too many references! history! pop culture! boy scouts!

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And all before my first cup of coffee in the morning!

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Ovaltine?

...a crummy commercial?

Son of a bitch.

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