On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Ralph Walter wrote:

> Guess you're younger, or less TV-afflicted, than I thought. Or than I
> am.

Um, no, just didn't remember the "Query:" business.

I go all the way back to the Perry Mason series.  And I recall Ironside,
too.

Not only that, when I moved into a student co-op house as an undergrad, I
had to select a "buzz" (a Morse-code-like signal to be used to summon me
for phone calls).  Since I arrived in mid-term, all of the good ones were
taken.  So I borrowed one from the first few notes of the "Perry Mason"
theme: .--.. (short-LONG-LONG-short-short).  I kept that code throughout
my career in various student co-op houses.

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