Highways, herons and harmonicas

Naomi wrote:
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Is there a problem with "wireless"?*


I like the word. It is very graphic and self-explaining. Especially if
you compare it to the French word for radio: TSF - which I believe also
to be obsolete.

Why, I even made a wireless the villain of a comic 'jam!'
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/62704288@N00/22455813/)


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Mikefule wrote:
*First day back at work after my holiday, and not a good one. It
turns out I am indispensable after all - always a mistake.

*


I'm sure your talents are wasted there, I think you should go on coker
tours of the country and write books about them. Have you ever thought
about becoming an author?


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Mikefule wrote:
Here's a photo taken at the Marina during the beer stop.

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Aww, and I was hoping for a picture of those kids drinking pop. I must
try their ingenious technique sometime, but obviously not when my own
kids are watching.

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goldenchicken II wrote:
*I like the word. It is very graphic and self-explaining. Especially
if you compare it to the French word for radio: TSF - which I believe
also to be obsolete.

Why, I even made a wireless the villain of a comic 'jam!'
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/62704288@N00/22455813/) *


I think wireless is just about the least descriptive word in existance.
When you call something wireless, all that you are saying that that
there are no wires.


Lots of things don't have wires. The peach I'm eating has no wires. My
dog, too, is wireless.


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vanman2004 wrote:
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Lots of things don't have wires. The peach I'm eating has no wires. My
dog, too, is wireless. *


Chortle

As a kid, I wondered why my grandad's "wireless" was called a "wireless"
when I could clearly see that it was plugged in to the mains with a plug
on a length of wire!

For those younger readers who don't understand the word:

The first electronic communications were "telegraph" ("tele" meaning
far, or long distance (as in telescope, teleological, television) and
"graph" as in writing (graphology, etc.)). The signal went alng wires
which often ran alongside railway tracks. (US = "railroad")

When radio was introduced, it was called "wireless telegraph" to
differentiate it from ordinary telegraph that went along telegraph
wires.

Telegraph was originally by morse code - a system of beeps or taps to
represent letters of the alphabet. As it became more common to transmit
sound (telephone) the term "wireless telegraph" evolved into "wireless"
- which is, as Vanman2004 pointed out, a singularly undescriptive
term.

Language is like that. How far would you see through a pair of
telescopic forks?


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Lovely write up, as usual, Mikefule. MattPH is right, there is at least
a "collected works" worth in your postings, surely?

BTW, I'm intrigued by your new avatar. Were Kropotkin, Bakunin et al
unicyclists? Must look through my old pamphlets to see if I missed
something...


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s7ev0 wrote:
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BTW, I'm intrigued by your new avatar. Were Kropotkin, Bakunin et al
unicyclists? Must look through my old pamphlets to see if I missed
something... *


Hmmmm. Leading anarchists... I was thinking more along the lines of
Lydon and Vicious. That and a midlife crisis and I was sitting at the
computer bored.


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In any case, it's a fine avatar.

And if anyone's having a midlife crisis, I always recommend learning to
ride a unicy.... oh.


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Avatar courtesy of Loosemoose.
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I'm surprised that Mikefules new avatar isn't a Snickers logo.


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s7ev0 wrote:
*And if anyone's having a midlife crisis, I always recommend learning
to ride a unicy.... oh. *

That's how I got started. Right after I turned 50-years-old I went out
and bought my first unicycle. It was a lot cheaper than a bright red
convertable Italian sports car.


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