June 16, 2013

Threatening "a Gandhian fast unto death"...

... over the end of the telegram.

11 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I'll bet the telegram delivery guys get paid lots more than the lunch box delivery guys.

There's your problem, right there.

rhhardin said...

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.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

In the Dominican Republic AM radio used to serve as massage board.

Balfegor said...

Ah, the telegram. My alma mater notified me of my acceptance by telegram. Those were the days . . .

Gahrie said...

Well that tactic worked well for the buggy whip makers.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

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.

edutcher said...

William Hepburn Russell nods.

Sorun said...

"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?

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Message...

Yikes!

tim maguire said...

Gandhi didn't starve to death.

Emil Blatz said...

Telegram for Mr. Jack Benny