XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   John Ames wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:33:45 GMT   
   > Charlie Gibbs  wrote:   
   >   
   >> > Seems plausible - may also have to do with phone-tree systems and   
   >> > how intelligible "hash" is or isn't over a muffled line, vs. a word   
   >> > that begins and ends with hard consonants.   
   >>   
   >> I hadn't thought of that angle.  Indeed, aeronautical radio   
   >> phraseology has evolved to deal with just that sort of problem.   
   >   
   > Many's the time I've had to resort to the NATO phonetic alphabet when   
   > trying to get a customer to type something in over the phone.   
      
   Like "It all went tango uniform"? A real "charlie foxtrot"?   
      
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   in the same way that fish are natural mountaineers.  He probably would have   
   been thrown out of Unseen University anyway--he couldn't remember spells and   
   smoking made him feel ill.   
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