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Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams
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| 2/1/06
Posted on 02/01/2006 10:28:21 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside
A little Republican history; John Hay who was Lincolns private secretary at the White House (one of two)... married the heiress to Western Union.
To: martin_fierro
So much for loging on from Tijeras.....
See ya later...
To: mlc9852
You should blame the President's eavesdropping program. Too difficult to intercept the telegrams... < /sarcasm >
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:37:50 AM PST
by
weegee
(Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
To: Argus
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:38:34 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: mlc9852
I blame Wal-Mart.No. No. No. No. STOP It is STOP Bush's fault. STOP
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:38:43 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
(Someday when we meet up yonder, we'll stroll hand in hand again, in a land that knows no parting...)
To: Mr. Brightside
Now we're just going to have to accept more illegal immigration so they can deliver the messages Americans just don't want to.
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:38:58 AM PST
by
weegee
(Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
To: Mr. Brightside
When Western Union came up with Easy Link in the 1980's, it was only a matter of time. I wondered then why anyone would even NEED telegrams, when they could send messages by computer. Email?
To: American Quilter
1974: Launched Westar I, the first U.S. dedicated communications satellite.
They contributed to the techonological changes. Didn't so much put themselves out of business as move to new ways of doing things.
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:42:07 AM PST
by
weegee
(Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
To: weegee
5000 Mexicans running across the Arizona desert with mail bags around their necks. lol
Now we have a solution to the immigration problem. Just bulk mail letters to Mexico City and have the illegals carry them back! lol
To: TommyDale
Well the post office is trying to remain competitive with email and wanted to set up everyone in America with email accounts, offering to offer to hand deliver (with the day's mail) printouts of those emails.
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:43:19 AM PST
by
weegee
(Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
To: Argus
I INVENTED THE TELEGRAM!
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:43:34 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Mr. Brightside
This makes me sad and I don't know why.
I got a telegram once,the day I was married forty-five years ago.
The end of an era.
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:43:49 AM PST
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
To: weegee
I did receive a telegram from my Dad in basic telling me how proud he was of me and that I was doing a great job. It was awesome to receive and I still have it 181/2 years later. However, I do understand that technology is advanced and now their are other methods to send information.
To: Mr. Brightside
I wonder what the last telegram said..
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:44:05 AM PST
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:46:06 AM PST
by
abb
(Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
To: Mr. Brightside
Horay for Morse Code. The first binary form of communications.
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:46:45 AM PST
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: abb
They should make that their last OFFICIAL telegram message.......
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:47:27 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: Mr. Brightside
Don't feel sorry for them. Western Union makes a huge profit from money transfers. Go into a convience store or super market that has a WU hook up and you may well likely see our illegal guest from the south sending home American Dollars.
To: weegee
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posted on
02/01/2006 10:54:54 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Mr. Brightside
Somewhere, I still have the stack of congratulatory telegrams sent to my parents' hotel room on the night of their wedding in 1963. They had a small wedding and lots of friends and relatives who were not included wanted to send their best wishes.
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