July 1, 2009 12:44 AM

Morse code jerk

Was talking with someone today over whether you could be into Morse code and being a jerk at the same time. I say it's all done, played out.

Take the whining of Samuel Morse: "I have been so constantly under the necessity of watching the movements of the most unprincipled set of pirates I have ever known, that all my time has been occupied in defense, in putting evidence into something like legal shape that I am the inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph!! Would you have believed it ten years ago that a question could be raised on that subject?" Also, he hated Catholics and immigrants and loved slavery.

So there. After the man himself, no more room for Morse code jerks. I don't know the code, but clearly it should only be used for good stuff.

3 responses ...

  1. Andy Walton says:

    You clearly haven't met enough ham radio operators.

  2. LC says:

    …. . .-.. .-.. — / — -.– / ..-. .-. .. . -. -.. .-.-.- / .. / …. — .–. . / -.– — ..- / …. .- …- . / .- -. / .- -… … — .-.. ..- – . .-.. -.– / ..-. .- -… ..- .-.. — ..- … / -.. .- -.– / .- – / – …. . / -… . .- -.-. …. .-.-.-

  3. Patrick says:

    Ham radio scares me!

    As does the LC comment run through the CGI Morse Code Translator: "HELL N FRIEND. I HEEE NU HAVE AN ABSLUTELN FATULUS DAN AT THE BEACH."

    We can blame some of this on Wordpress character handling. But all of it? I don't know. Who is this "Dan"?

Thoughts?