daw dit daw

[spatch]

-... .-. . .- -.- .. -. --. / -. . .-- ... / ..-. .-. --- -- / .... .- .-- .- .. .. / ... - --- .--. / .--- .- .--. .- -. . ... . / ..-. --- .-. -.-. . ... / .-.. .- ..- -. -.-. .... / -.-. --- --- .-. -.. .. -. .- - . -.. / .- .. .-. / .- -. -.. / ... . .- / .- ... ... .- ..- .-.. - / --- -. / ..- ... / -. .- ...- .- .-.. / -... .- ... . / .- - / .--. . .- .-. .-.. / .... .- .-. -... --- .-. / ... - --- .--. / . -..- .--. . -.-. - / .-. . .- .-.. .-.. -.-- / -.-. .-. ..- -- -- -.-- / -... .-. ..- -.-. -.- .... . .. -- . .-. / -- --- ...- .. . / .. -. / ..-. .. ..-. - -.-- / -.-- . .- .-. ... / ... - --- .--.

and if I still had a streaming station up, this is what I'd continuously stream all day.

(It may behoove some people to know that my original joke was going to be -... . / ... ..- .-. . / - --- / -.. .-. .. -. -.- / -.-- --- ..- .-. / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . / but then I saw today's date and changed my mind.)

Comments

[spatch]

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.

[mhaille.livejournal.com]

*wince* Tom Swifties. Ow. heh.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

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.

[lno.livejournal.com]

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