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11 comments:
I'll bet the telegram delivery guys get paid lots more than the lunch box delivery guys.
There's your problem, right there.
I'd lament the loss of the beauty of well sent Morse, except
1. They don't use Morse anymore, and
2. The Morse that they did use was an ugly thing with clicks and odd intracharacter spacings instead of beautiful and regular tones.
In the Dominican Republic AM radio used to serve as massage board.
Ah, the telegram. My alma mater notified me of my acceptance by telegram. Those were the days . . .
Well that tactic worked well for the buggy whip makers.
Shutting down a dysfunctional publicly funded monopoly?
Where is their sense of civic responsibility? If ever only one citizen wants, or might want, to send use the service, it must be kept available.
William Hepburn Russell nods.
"The BSNL board, after dilly-dallying for two years..."
Serious Indian writers love to use words like dilly-dally, willy-nilly, and fuddy-duddy. Why is that?
Message...
Yikes!
Gandhi didn't starve to death.
Telegram for Mr. Jack Benny
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