In article .com,
writes:

You can't be talking about Morse Code skill as having no usefulness,
because it's extremely useful in amateur radio. Therefore, it makes
sense that the tests for an amateur radio license would include a
Morse Code test.

Tsk. That only "makes sense" to a PCTA extra. :-)

QED

"Quad-Error Demonstration?" Tsk. You made two basic errors
one involving an impossible logical relation.

Ave, Imperator!

Who do you address that way?

All the PCTA extras? Isn't that their salutation? :-)

Nuns are usually addressed as "Sister"
or "Mother" or some other title. At least that's the way it was
back when I was Roman Catholic, years and years ago.

You are a lapsed Catholic?

Oh, yes...you changed denominations and took your Vows
with the Church of St. Hiram!

Sorry, I forgot. :-)

As for the Latin, it's one of the languages my ancestors used.
They had world-class poetry, art, drama, philosophy, mathematics,
formal logic, science, engineering, architecture, public works, a
representative form of government, etc. Much of what they accomplished
we still use today - even down to most of the alphabet used to write in
this newsgroup.

Tsk. They couldn't hold their Empire together, could they? :-)

Got defeated by their own inflexibility and a bunch of barbarians.
Tsk, tsk.

Well, the electronics industry usually acknowledges Guglielmo
Marconi as the first demonstrator of radio as a communications
medium. In 1896. He used morse code with on-off keying. Old
timers seem intent on keeping morsemanship testing well-alive
past 108 years. :-)

Same-o, same-o...those olde-tymers have the same inflexibility
and are being defeated by "barbarians" who've gone on to bigger
and better things in the world of radio.


At about the same time in history, *your* ancestors were busy painting
their faces blue, howling at the moon and worshipping trees. All they
gave us of any value was the names of some of the days of the week.

"My" ancestors? :-)

Who were "my" ancestors? :-)

"My" ancestors went around "painting their faces blue?" :-)

Jimmie (aka "Nun of the Above"), do everyone a favor: Quit singing
the blues. You are off-key and you keep taking sideswipes with
your bug-gy comments about "ancestry." You gonna get paddled.
Probably in iambic pentameter verse. [what could be "verse?" vell,
lotsa tings...:-) ]

Just turn blue.