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Nothing To Write Home About (The Good Old Days)

Nothing to Write Home About

Zephyr: We gotta move!
BRO: Hold on. I'll enchant your gun to +5 Ammo.

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Thursday, June 24 @ 11:47:55 EDT

Baptista Returns Home

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We here at DHD welcome baptista home from the war front! We are thankful that his tour wasn't too long.

Baptista was only gone for a short while...and we know why...budget cut backs!

Here are some of the photo's he brought back:

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Thursday, August 07 @ 07:48:04 EDT

Nothing To Write Home About

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Hey Joe! You know what this reminds me of. Reservoir Dogs. Remember that movie? You hear that? Isn't that Stealer's Wheel?

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Monday, January 14 @ 10:14:21 EST

Code Makers

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January 7, 1904

"CQD" is adopted as the international distress signal for the operators of Marconi wireless installations.

The Morse code signal (dash-dot-dash-dot, dash-dash-dot-dash, dash-dot-dot), which became effective Feb. 1, was approved for maritime use by the Marconi International Marine Communications Company. Although widely used by Marconi operators, CQD never became a true international standard.

Two years later, members of the International Radiotelegraphic Convention meeting in Berlin adopted SOS as the standard distress signal, and CQD began fading from the scene.

CQD originated by combining CQ, which alerted stations that a message was incoming, with D for "distress." SOS, on the other hand, represents the Morse equivalents for those letters (dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot). It does not stand for either "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls." SOS was adopted because it's easy to send and easy to decipher.

SOS remained the maritime distress signal until 1999, when it was replaced by the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.

The most famous maritime distress call of all time was sent by the RMS Titanic following its fatal collision with an iceberg in April 1912. In that instance, Marconi radio operator Jack Phillips began by sending the CQD signal, then still commonly used aboard British ships. On the suggestion of his junior, Harold Bride, Phillips began alternating between CQD and SOS.

Both signals were received, and the ships that could responded, but ...

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Monday, January 07 @ 10:37:40 EST

Nothing To Write Home About (Happy Halloween)

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LISTEN UP CAPTAIN HOWDY! I DON'T CARE IF YOU'VE BEEN ON THIS *!@#$%^ LINE FOR TWENTY MINUTES! YOU'LL TRICK OR TREAT WHEN I SAY YOU TRICK OR TREAT!

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Monday, October 29 @ 16:37:16 EDT

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