30 pointsby bryanrasmussen4 hours ago4 comments
  • pradn3 hours ago
    Telegrams have a quaint connotation these days I suppose.

    In old Indian movies, a Telegram would only arrive to signify really bad news - someone died, or something like that. Why else would you pay for that expense? Well, it could also be a job interview or posting. So the connotation there, in that time, was probably not so good.

    • mikestew2 hours ago
      In old Indian movies...

      Old movies in general, Indian or Hollywood. For pretty much the reasons you list.

  • greasegum2 hours ago
    I didn't realize RW was cold like that.
  • buran772 hours ago
    > Not long ago I received my first and last telegram

    > I found this telegram tucked into a passage on the Jewish community in Sarajevo [...] The recipient of the telegram was Ann Cottrell Free

    I dare say he didn't receive, he found, and it's not his but someone else's telegram.

  • ctoth3 hours ago
    • swiftcoder3 hours ago
      This is at least an interesting use of tokens