Brevity by Dan Thompson for June 13, 2018

He’ll flag soon!

Well, if they’re really crude, we could flag him.

Lets play Capture the Flag!

Can we run him up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes him.

Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching’s is blueThey all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai YuDressing up in costumes, playing silly gamesHiding out in tree-tops shouting out rude names

The International Code of Signals is a publication documenting the agreed upon meanings of various signal codes for various purposes. The medical section of the document contains letter codes that translate to some very specific and detailed medical phrases for describing and diagnosing problems of patients, for example on a ship where the best source of help is on another ship.

I don’t think there are any crude jokes in the codes, but there are certainly some very gross descriptions and procedures that can be sent by signal flags. A simple example is: “MQE 26” = “My probable diagnosis is cystitis”. But there are some phrases I won’t repeat here.

“I hear the next guy uses an aldis lamp.”

Only a no-talent hack would tell half-mast jokes like that.

He’s auditioning to guest on Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farah Fowler’s Fun With Flags.