Subj : Hope you enjoyed that
To   : Belly
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Thu Aug 19 2004 09:40 am

  Re: Hope you enjoyed that
  By: Belly to Angus Mcleod on Thu Aug 19 2004 02:26:00

 >  > followed by:
 >  >
 >  >     dididahdit dahdididit!  Didahdit! Didaaaaaahhhhdit!
 >  >
 >  > while stareing significantly at her loins......
 > 
 > F B R R? I must have missed something.

FB R R.

FB = standard, well known and well understood amateur CW abbreviation that
     derives from the phrase "Fine Business".  Anything that is good is Fine
     Business.  

R  = standard, well known and well understood amateur CW abbreviation that
     means "Roger".  Actually, the "R" isn't short for "Roger", it's the other
     way around.  Long before people began _talking_ over radio, "R" was used
     as a positive acknowledgement.  (Also "C" meaning "Correct", or "yes" but
     that is usually only used in rsponse to a direct question.)  When people
     started using voice, the old CW "R" was called "Roger" (and "C" became
     "Charlie") as the remainder of the alphabet were also given phonetic names
     of some sort.

The drawn out "R" as in "Didaaaaaahhhhdit" is a CWer's way of emphasising the
word/phrase.  On voice you might say "big Roger" although that is somewhat of a
CBer scheme.  A ham might just say "Roooooooger".

Since you don't appear familiar with CW, let me just tell you that CW operators
don't spell out everything in plain english.  They are sensibly lazy and
abbreviate like crazy -- usually in ways that only make sense when you compare
the length of the morse letters involved.  For example, the word "Please"
becomes "PSE" (not "PLS" because "L" is NINE times longer than "E").  There are
a large number of abbreviations that a Google search might find, but here are a
few:

    AGN - Again
    BCNU - Be seeing you
    DR - Dear
    ES - And
    EU - Europe
    FER - For
    GA - Go ahead
    GB - Good bye/God Bless
    GE - Good Evening
    GG - Going
    HPE - Hope
    HW - How
    MNI - Many
    NW - Now
    OC - Old chap
    RC - Ragchew (casual conversation)
    SN - Soon
    TKS - Thanks
    TMW - Tomorrow
    VY - Very
    
There are hundreds and hundreds more, but I hope you get the picture.  So
NW GG SHOWER SN SO VY MNI TNX ES HPE BCNU AGN TMW FEW RC GB FER NW AND GB OC!


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