My first and last telegram was from Rebecca West

Posted by bryanrasmussen 6 hours ago

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Comment by pradn 5 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.

Comment by mikestew 4 hours ago

In old Indian movies...

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

Comment by greasegum 5 hours ago

I didn't realize RW was cold like that.

Comment by buran77 4 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.

Comment by ctoth 5 hours ago

At the risk of being the LMGTFY guy:

https://claude.ai/share/b84c491e-3480-4407-ae76-b6cf63ee551d

Comment by mrandish 2 hours ago

> At the risk of being the LMGTFY guy

That was actually great. While a Google search is free and easy, that cost real tokens which aren't free (especially for those who don't have a work-paid sub).

Comment by swiftcoder 5 hours ago

This is at least an interesting use of tokens