Whoo-hoo We're Back

[Captain_Orso]

And I get to post the first post in the first thread since a week in the ACW section ompom:

[GraniteStater]

[Normalguy]

3rd

Oh C'mon you know you wanted to say it too

[Longshanks]

must ... read... more ... posts ..... must ... resist .... withdrawal... agony.... gaaahhhhhh!

We're BAAACCKKKK!

[bigus]

Looks good! Well done....
Much easier on the eyes after a few beers too.....

[Eugene Carr]

Yep, been missing this

S!

[Captain_Orso]

And now for something completely different, the first off-topic comment..

Ever wonder what Cheerleader Susie is saying in semaphore? ompom:

If you consider that
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doesn't exist in semaphore, but since Susie is caught in an anigif-vortex, if you use it as POM (Preable Of Message) makes sense since Susie's Smiley-Name is Pom-Pom , then Susie actually has something to say

[Stauffenberg]

And now for something completely different, the first off-topic comment..

Ever wonder what Cheerleader Susie is saying in semaphore? ompom:

If you consider that
.|O|
. |
./ \
doesn't exist in semaphore, but since Susie is caught in an anigif-vortex, if you use it as POM (Preable Of Message) makes sense since Susie's Smiley-Name is Pom-Pom , then Susie actually has something to say

Great to be back (!), and this deserves an off-topic response to your off-topic comment I think...

I just happen to be reading the memoirs of Gen. Porter Alexander, the CSA signals expert (Fighting For the Confederacy)--a wonderful read giving marvelous first-hand accounts of meetings with some of the leading personages of the day, replete with colourful cuss-words employed).
Alexander has the honor of being the first to send a signal by the wig-wag method during the Civil War. He was also involved in espionage signaling.

Since this is a Civil War forum, off the top of my head , certain marine, Zouave and officer kepis came with a pom pom (from Fr. Pompon: a small decorative ball made of fabric or feathers), and therefore Susie's anigif-vortex could be a code indicator for the afore-mentioned troops (I'm not sure if the marines would appreciate that tho').

Certainly this would have posed no problem for Porter who could spot a coffee pot flashing from the hotel rooms of lady spies like the famous Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Augusta Morris, and Virginia Baxley. (I said it was a coffee pot that was flashing...)
(“Its nice work if you can get it and you can get it if you try” :winner

[Aphrodite Mae]

And now for something completely different, the first off-topic comment..

You started the thread, so we'll follow your lead!

Ever wonder what Cheerleader Susie is saying in semaphore? ompom:

If you consider that
.|O|
. |
./ \
doesn't exist in semaphore, but since Susie is caught in an anigif-vortex, if you use it as POM (Preable Of Message) makes sense since Susie's Smiley-Name is Pom-Pom , then Susie actually has something to say

Susie first appeared in 2009, after I pouted about the absence of "girl smilies" on the forums. Pocus presented her as a surprise for me, to welcome me to the forums. It was this kind of thoughtfulness that made me fall in love with this place.

I giggled when I read your post and considered that Susie was semaphoring a message! We're on a military-themed forum, so of course Susie is doing wig-wag! It just never occurred to me!

Great to be back (!), and this deserves an off-topic response to your off-topic comment I think...

I just happen to be reading the memoirs of Gen. Porter Alexander, the CSA signals expert (Fighting For the Confederacy)--a wonderful read giving marvelous first-hand accounts of meetings with some of the leading personages of the day, replete with colourful cuss-words employed).
Alexander has the honor of being the first to send a signal by the wig-wag method during the Civil War. He was also involved in espionage signaling. [...]

We've just returned from a week of touring Civil War battlefields. One of the places we visited was Manassas. There, I learned about how both armies used the same signal code, but encrypted the messages. I found a replica Confederate cipher disk in the gift shop that I almost bought for Dixicrat. It was a handsome little thing, and might have made a great conversation piece! Here's a link to an interesting article on its usage: The Cipher Disk

It might even be actually useful, today! Consider how you could keep it by your computer, and use it to encrypt your passwords with an easy to remember encryption phrase.

[Jim-NC]

ouet:Being back on the forums is good. arty:

[Hobbes]

We've just returned from a week of touring Civil War battlefields. One of the places we visited was Manassas. There, I learned about how both armies used the same signal code, but encrypted the messages. I found a replica Confederate cipher disk in the gift shop that I almost bought for Dixicrat. It was a handsome little thing, and might have made a great conversation piece! Here's a link to an interesting article on its usage: The Cipher Disk

It might even be actually useful, today! Consider how you could keep it by your computer, and use it to encrypt your passwords with an easy to remember encryption phrase.

I want one!

[Stauffenberg]

We've just returned from a week of touring Civil War battlefields. One of the places we visited was Manassas. There, I learned about how both armies used the same signal code, but encrypted the messages. I found a replica Confederate cipher disk in the gift shop that I almost bought for Dixicrat. It was a handsome little thing, and might have made a great conversation piece! Here's a link to an interesting article on its usage: The Cipher Disk

It might even be actually useful, today! Consider how you could keep it by your computer, and use it to encrypt your passwords with an easy to remember encryption phrase.

Yes I want one too. It's like an early prototype of the German Enigma machine.
I'm more envious of the visit though, it must have been fascinating.