Wirt may be sending out an ...---... and just doesn't know it.

(For those still acquainted with Samuel's original coding method, predating
ASCII by a few decades). For others not so acquainted (the younger ones on the
list?) here's a hint: this sequence of 3 coded letters was first used during a
disaster by Marconi operator McBride to send a call for help by the Titanic
after hitting the ice berg.  :)

Quoting Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>:

> Very funny Roy, but I suspect that it will fly over Wirt's head and won't be
> a close shave.  Wirt is only good at waxing eloquent about the nuclear
> testing he did on that atoll in the Pacific while plotting to kill everyone.
>
> And what's with that "the President Bush" thing; is Wirt having problems
> with cut and paste?
>
> Maybe he's been drinking too much Kool-Aid on his daily chaos run.
>
> DGSOS, Wirt.
>
> Denys
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Roy Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Three Brazilian soldiers
>
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Wirt Atmar
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >Donald Rumsfeld finished his daily briefing to George W Bush by telling
> >Him "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
> >
> >"OH NO!" President  Bush exclaims. "That's terrible!"
> >
> >His staff sits stunned at this display  of emotion, nervously watching as
> the
> >President sits, head in  hands.
> >
> >Finally, the President Bush looks up and asks, "How many is a  brazillion?"
>
> He's bound not to know the answer.
>
> After all, you can't have a Brazilian *and* still have a Bush :-)
> --
> Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
> Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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