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So the other night we were watching some western movie on tv. In the movie a guy sends a telegram. As always when they send telegrams in movies, they say "stop" at the end of every sentence... most of the time.
My soon to be step-daughter, asked me what does "stop" mean. I had to think, I have no idea. So, I told her that they said that instead of adding a period to the end of every sentence. Was I right? What is the story behild saying "stop" what does it really mean?
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Soren,
I think Sam Morse's code didn't include any punctuation marks, so they ended up having to use that word[stop] to designate the end of a sentence.
Cheers,
Dwight
(now you just KNEW I couldn't end this response o' mine without a "joke", RIGHT?......OKAY........
Western Union
To G W Bush
Dear Dubya I hear we're about to invade Iran stop
Signed Dwight)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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No, we're not going to "invade" Iran, we (and probably the Israelis) are going to nuke it! (And my guess it that this will start the Biblical endtimes war.)
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Then PapaDean,
Then I guess it's too bad that Western Union ain't around anymore, 'cuz THAT telegram would probably look somethin' like THIS.........
To God in Heaven
I hear you're gonna allow us to blow ourselves to Kingdom Come STOP
signed The Human Race
Cheers,
Dwight
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Then PapaDean,
Then I guess it's too bad that Western Union ain't around anymore, 'cuz THAT telegram would probably look somethin' like THIS.........
To God in Heaven
I hear you're gonna allow us to blow ourselves to Kingdom Come STOP
signed The Human Race
Cheers,
Dwight
WOW Dwight, That's almost a prayer  !
If that happened, the entire human race that is, we'd probably see something.
But as far as God "allowing" us to blow ourselves up, we'd have to get into a discussion on predestination, corrupt human nature and free will. That's really pretty deep theological water though, and perhaps not the best subject for this forum.
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BOY! That's TRUE enough, Bill!  I better watch this CRAP o' mine...HUH?!   Cheers, Dwight (as I'm sure MANY would catagorize MY opinions[and "jokes"] here)  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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what you call a period . Is called a full Stop . Here .
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You better be careful Dwight, pretty soon you just might believe in Jesus too. Soren
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You better be careful Dwight, pretty soon you just might believe in Jesus too.
Soren
Oh...I DO, I DO, Soren!
I DO believe that that guy was THE BEST! I'm just sorry nobody really seems to LISTENS to what the great man said. 
Cheers,
Dwight
(hey...I've always liked what that liberal jerk Bill Maher says about this topic....."I don't understand why these fundamentalist Christians seem to concentrate so much on the OLD TESTAMENT instead of the NEW. It's like they're JEWS and just DON'T KNOW IT....but without the education, o' course!!!")
(no offensive meant to our Jewish Brothers here or our Christian Brothers EITHER, for that matter)
(OKAY, ALREADY...I'll STOP NOW) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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SORRY...but just ONE MORE observation!!! I THINK I know WHY this here thread turned into yet ANOTHER sorry excuse for one o' my tiring and tedious (semi-)tirades about the dangers of Organized Religion........ It was BOUND to HAPPEN, SEE! What WERE those first few lines Samuel Morse sent via that wire back in the nineteenth century, ANYWAY?!!! OH YEAH......"What hath GOD wrought"!!! Cheers, Dwight (it must'a been one o' them there "subconscious things", YA KNOW)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Someone needs to come up with a little icon dude that holds up a sign saying "DERAILED".
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Someone needs to come up with a little icon dude that holds up a sign saying "DERAILED".
MAN! You're SOOOOO right, there Benny!
But that TRAIN left YEARS AGO!
Cheers,
Dwight
(that TRAIN to...."Lets-keep-it-on-track-Dwight-ville", that is!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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People would save money by using the word “stop†instead of periods to end sentences because punctuation was extra, the four character word was free stop
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Someone needs to come up with a little icon dude that holds up a sign saying "DERAILED".
Around here, it would be more appropriate to have one that says, "still on the track" , as that's a much more rare occurrence .
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Someone needs to come up with a little icon dude that holds up a sign saying "DERAILED".
Around here, it would be more appropriate to have one that says, "still on the track" , as that's a much more rare occurrence .
OH YEAH Bill?!!
Well I'M sending YOU a telegram RIGHT NOW!
And it says.....YOU RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT and I AIN T the only culprit around here who s GUILTY of this infraction STOP
Cheers,
Dwight
(notice the lack of punctuation for effect...AND to "keep it on track here")
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I DO believe that that guy was THE BEST! I'm just sorry nobody really seems to LISTENS to what the great man said.
Now I thought that we had burned this bridge , and that you understood that the offensive part (to me at least) was the stereotyping of Christians by the national media (both liberal and conservative) as a bunch of witch burning Crusaders. I blame the media because they give so much coverage to the anti-christs who claim to speak for Jesus. There are plenty of Christians who do not agree with Buchannan or Robertson or any of their ilk, and do so publicly, yet try to find them on the news. So your saying that nobody seems to listen to Jesus has to be based on media controlled perceptions and not reality.
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(hey...I've always liked what that liberal jerk Bill Maher says about this topic....."I don't understand why these fundamentalist Christians seem to concentrate so much on the OLD TESTAMENT instead of the NEW. It's like they're JEWS and just DON'T KNOW IT....but without the education, o' course!!!")
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(OKAY, ALREADY...I'll STOP NOW)
No you won't . And that's O.K.  , it gives me a chance to offer some edification to those who don't understand Christians.
And perhaps to those Christians who don't understand Jesus.
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"keep it on track here"
Now THAT'S funny .
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Someone needs to come up with a little icon dude that holds up a sign saying "DERAILED".
Best I can come up with on short notice: 
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Bill, Geez MAN! With this seriousness you've brought into the equation here....YOU'RE RUINING MY TIMING, BUDDY!!! BUUUUTTTT, I know, you know, that WHENEVER I insert that "christian gibe" stuff into the conversations around here, I'm referring to the FUNDAMENTALIST aspect of it or ANY other religious thought or deeds that spring from a STRICT and INTOLERATE interpretation of any AND ALL Scriptures. THAT to me IS and WILL BE the BANE of HUMANITY until the end of time.(Which PapaDean evidently thinks is right around the corner) Cheers, Dwight (NOW....Let me see if I can get my TIMING BACK here)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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That's pretty good John, I'm afraid you'll wear the little dude out though .
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I know that you know that I know that you know that I know, ya know . But we all have our own particular litte things that we like to jump all over . Quote:
(NOW....Let me see if I can get my TIMING BACK here)
I think I have a strobe in the garage, hope the inductive pickup works with implication .
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That's pretty good John, I'm afraid you'll wear the little dude out though .
Yeah, no kidding. Here's another one that could get a fair bit of wear, perhaps even on this thread:
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OKAY...Friar Man!!! You can LOCK this one up and throw away the key now, 'cuz the Muse(like Elvis) has left the building!!! Cheers, Dwight (thank ya....thank ya very much....GAWD[notice I didn't say "GOD"] I HATE IT when I close with that ubiquitous Elvis line)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Hey FJ, how hard would it be to edit those little guys and put Dwight's name in there?
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Hey FJ, how hard would it be to edit those little guys and put Dwight's name in there?
Benny...I'm sure Friar John, being much more attune to this computer stuff than I am(or ever will be), could have one o' them there little suckers up and running in NO time! 
And besides....THAT won't be the first time my name's been put on a placard and picketed against, ya know?!!
Why, I remember the time...................
Cheers,
Dwight
(Thalieia, that little sprite[muse], must'a come back and landed upon my shoulder again...'cept she's starting to sing "You Ain't Nothin' But A Hound Dog" in my ear....I wonder what THAT'S all about????) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Hahaha!! (I like it [it being the sign]) Oh hey I think I can speak dwightish!
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I tried using the translator but it spits out morse code again...
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D*mn Friar Man....I KNEW you could do it! You're the BEST, dude! Now....I don't want to "DWELL"(a reference to Bill's strobe timing-light thing above....BTW Bill, GOOD ONE!) BUT....I'm wondering IF this new dialect of the English Language known as "Dwightish", is very dependent on the use of PARENTHESES(I've got a sneaky suspicion that it IS, for some reason...BUT...if I'm WRONG...PLEASE let me know, OKAY?!!) AND....seeing as how Sam Morse's code had no ability to send punctuation(of which I believe a parenthesis IS considered...but I could be wrong here)....can you imagine how freakin' hard it would have been for me to send a telegram back in the day, and have it still make sense.(yeah...I KNOW...I usually don't make much sense around here anyway...RIGHT???!!!) Cheers, Dwight (STOP)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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AND....seeing as how Sam Morse's code had no ability to send punctuation(of which I believe a parenthesis IS considered...but I could be wrong here)....can you imagine how freakin' hard it would have been for me to send a telegram back in the day, and have it still make sense.(yeah...I KNOW...I usually don't make much sense around here anyway...RIGHT???!!!)
Holy Dots and Dashes Batman, You are right. It would have been tough for either one of us (not that would ever use parenthesis in the middle of a sentence to insert another thought) to send a telegram.
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this thread has gotten way off track and out of control.
I agree.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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this thread has gotten way off track and out of control.
What else is new?
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this thread has gotten way off track and out of control.
What else is new?
FriarJohn,
Did you happen to notice the posting where that quote came from? You have to use a little imagination. Soren knows.
I was born a long ways from where I was supposed to be. - Bob Dylan
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Hey Benny, I think I know what our Oregonian friend Soren just sent via Sam's code to all of us here............ WHAT HATH I WROUGHT IN THIS FREAKIN THREAD THAT STARTED UP THAT CALIFORNIA IDIOT ALL OVER AGAIN STOP Cheers, Dwight (at least that's what my handy dandy Morse Code translation device said it said, anyway)
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If you think written Dwightish is tough, you oughta hear him speak in person. First time I met Dwight I thought he had Tourette's Syndrome. (just kidding Dwight) your buddy, Derek
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WHAT(sombitch) EXACTLY(Dubya sucks) DO(friggin'fracken) YOU(D*mn FedEx) MEAN(I gotta ride more) BY(that Tucson's too freakin' hot) THAT(this place has to many freakin' right-wingers) DEREK????  Cheers, Dwight (they keep tellin' me that medication only WORKS when I use it...*#%*!^$@&*!)
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I'm saving this one... Quote:
Dwight
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I'm referring to the FUNDAMENTALIST aspect of it or ANY other religious thought or deeds that spring from a STRICT and INTOLERATE interpretation of any AND ALL Scriptures.
Just when you seemed to be going for jugulars, become softer and - gasp - more tolerant. Tragic as it may be to admit, all religion is superstition and the only difference between a caveman sacrificing a wombat to the thunder gods and modern-day religions is that folks have become smarter at trying to rationalize what are irrational beliefs.
Of course, special scorn should be reserved for the New Agers, who can use the most sophisticated semi-mystical, quasi-scientific, linguistic mumbo-jumbo to convince the unthinking that "harmonic crystal energies at the quantum level can generate fields of consciousness, which lead - when properly channeled - to an harmonious oneness with the spiritual universe." Bah, humbug and poppycock. Anyone who believes this sort of mindless clap trap deserves to lose their money to a grasping guru charging $35 a pop for some wishy-washy, insipid, turgid, self-help tome that is only good for smacking the witless over the head with.
But apart from that, I'm pretty much OK with most people
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Yep Siggy! I can see right now that that hotel lounge tomorrow night is going to be awash with more "I couldn't agree mores" than "Carter has little pills"!!!!(an old American expression....I'll explain it later) Cheers, Dwight (see ya tomorrow night, buddy)
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