Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for December 28, 2022

T H E K I N G I S A FINK

“If I only knew Morse Code.”

You still need a password with a text to your phone with the 6 digit code

Don’t tap too hard, you’ll knock the balcony down!

Rodney has seen the Huns. And he will be back at the castle shortly.

They don’t make tab soles for birds to tap dance with. So they have to use their beaks instead.

…dot – dot – dash. (Send more bird seed.)

I did a radio piece on avian Morse Code, with actual recordings of them (which I leave to the ham radio enthusists among you to translate, with a warning that said translations are NSFW) called Feathers an’ Fluff <http://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_more.php?sid=477>

A carrier pigeon that’s part woodpecker?

I was expecting the pigeon to “drop off” that message from above.

International Morse doesn’t work well at all with tapping; it needs tones to produce dots and dashes. American Morse (a.k.a. “landline”) is used with tapping. Instead of producing tones, landline produces a series of clicks. My brother could have theoretically copied very slow landline at one point, but I never had any usable knowledge of it.

“Don’t… eat… me…”

I learned how to send and receive Morse Code in the Marines. I could send about thirty words a minute, which was about average. I never had an occasion to use it, so it was forgotten.

Previous message not received, please repeat.

- …. . / . .. . -. … / .- / ..-. .. . -. (the kings a fink)

Someone get the translator!

It’s from the kingdom beyond! Tweeting is in, no more scrolls!

All I ever learned was dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot. Haven’t ever gotten to use it. So far, everything has been okay.

_ …. . . .. _. _ . .. … . .._. .. _. . .. . . _ ._ _ _… _ _. … .

Coded messages, Huns right up my street. It’s a bad way to start the day.

He’s tapped out.

Some of these comments seem to be butchered by the system, like turning 3 dots into an ellipsis, and multiple dashes next to each other into some other character. Darn. Why do you have to interpret FOR us? Why can’t you display the text verbatim instead of assuming we’re dummies?

LOL! So that’s what they do! I thought it was to drill holes in the house to hide acorns or build a nest.

Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!