General Chat

There is nothing twisted in knowing the morse code. Until fairly recently signalling morse with an Aldis lamp was an essential skill for R N leading seamen. at a sedate speed it was also required for Rya offshore yachting qualification.

Although morse has officially ended scan the shortwaves and you will soon find stations pushing out highly encrypted morse at speed for computer decryption no Internet needed. Afaik the Lincolnshire poacher has closed.

Ode to Joy has two years maybe more
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Funny that Rollo I never said there was anything twisted about knowing morse code.

CNN have a twitter feed of current news...
this feed is also converted into morse code at various speeds, from 7 wpm up to ( as far as I am able) impossible speeds....

good practice...........if you have nothing else to do, (like housework ironing....etc)

A row of dots is known as an ellipsis, a form of punctuation that means "the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues."

But what length of dots is required? Is two enough? Five how many? Also as previously noted it can only reflect a "naughty" word if the reading reads it that way.

Are there any thread members my age or more remember ZUBE pastilles ?

There used to be posters on hoardings showing a giraffes neck and saying

for your throat's sake....suck it and see.

Ah the good old days of innocence.... :-D

go suck a ZUBE!

nearly as good a sucking on a "fishermans' friend"

Tizer the appetiser
"You can tell it's Tizer when your eyes are (wide) shut"
Perfect with deep fried zebra mussels

are there any naughty words under Z?
Well yes in French and Arabic not sure in English

Then Zebedee said time for bed.

Anybody remember the poster with the Durex Formula 1 car that was captioned "Durex, the small family car"?

Boinnnng said Zebedee

Z...nds (God's wounds) is a bit naughty. Don't think it is used much these days.

Kense are you trying to get us RR'd and Sharon :-D

Hm, do you mean me?

Opps sorry typed it fast....hangs head in shame......sorry Sharron :-)

I don't want to do that so I have edited the offending word. ;-)

LOL phew thanks Kense.....except.....will someone now RR just because they can fill in the blanks....their problem if they do :-D :-D

Oh! I thought it was THAT word Kense!

Is it rude? Oh gosh!

Oh, sorry, gosh is a euphemism, which means it's a word that is used instead of a taboo word.

..............ummmmmmmmmm..........

Sorry, can't think of a word to express surprise that isn't rude or religious based.

I could say 'Surprise'! But it sounds wrong in this context, and you'd probably be disappointed to know I haven't got an Easter egg for you.

Sorry, Easter eggs - Christian or Pagan?

See Maggie you can't say anything without possibly upsetting someone, none of us can :-D :-D