Morse Code

In Where No Fan Has Gone Before, when Bender starts tapping away at the beeper, has anyone bothered to determine whether he's sending anything in Morse code?

Well, I haven't "shagged dits", or translated morse code, in over 12 years, but it didn't sound like a real morse code message. I remember an instructor of mine pointing out that the vast majority of morse code shown in tv and movies was NOT authentic. One exception was a war movie whose name eludes me.

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"Cruiser7" wrote in message news:[email]...

Although the music in UK TV show "Inspector Morse" gives messages in morse code.

"Peter Morris" wrote in message news:ePjCc.901$[email]...

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Bad Morse code...but it's there!

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:08:17 -0500, Cruiser7 wrote:

Here ya go http://www.trainweb.org/railwayop/Movies/movies.html Nothing listed for Futurama, though.

It would surprise me if the Morse code were meaningless, though. Hardly anything in Futurama is without some meaning.

That's my thought, too. If only the Internet had never been invented, I would have learned Morse code and not needed to ask about it on the Internet! ;)

"Ari Johnson" wrote in message news:qhtCc.19229$cj3.15214@lakeread01...

Ari made available the episode to me, and I've listened to all the instances of Morse Code.

Fry, Leela, and Bender all send some CW (Continuous Wave = International Morse) while in the "Pike Chair" during the episode, all sending the same letters/message, some fading out and cut off. The code was sent by a "straight key": that is, with a hand making/breaking a switch to generate the code, like you might recall from old movies. The spacing within and between the characters is pretty sloppy, but copiable. Speed was around 20 words per minute (+/-).

Here are the instances of Morse in the episode. It appears that one short burst of code was recorded, and it was re-used every time someone was "testifying" from the "Pike Chair".

01:39 Fry "OOOK OOOK"

02:20 Fry "O KM" (Note: the letter 'M' in Morse is the same as an incomplete 'O')

04:04 Bender "OOOK OO..."

09:09 Leela Go "E" Yourself. "OOOK..."

15:15 Leela "OOOK OO..."

Prior to this last instance, Leela says: "Can we get on with this? My foot's getting tired". Pan down, and she's sending with her left foot.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:37:36 +0000, Jeff Maass wrote:

Thanks a heap. Was Leela's Go E Yourself in Morse or was only the OOOK in Morse? I will have to get a copy of that episode and listen.

Googling for "oook" I did discover a strange tie between oook and monkey. Somewhere in cartoonville or elsewhere is a monkey that was famous for ooking, There are lots of other references to OOOK - more than I would have expected. Then, it's the internet and it's futurama, so who can tell? It's all beta out there :)

sendem wrote:

Well, it was "go [beep] yourself" - probably meant as a censorship joke than some sort of joke about the letter E.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:08:34 -0400, Matt Garvey wrote:

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It would have been a real hoot if they used the Morse "F" for Leela's bleep (.._.), but perhaps the censors would have caught that, although South Park gets away with it without the Morse :) I sometimes think Futurama is way deeper than Northern Exposure. But then, I realize it's all just TV. Still . . . . It's possible that the show does represent the unconsciousness of the writers, much to their dismay

sendem wrote:

The Librarian from Terry Pratchetts Discworld.

Best Wishes Thomas

But, um, don't call him a monkey.

Matthew Miller wrote:

Yeah, that will make him go ape ;)

Ook, oook, Orangutang then

Best Wishes Thomas

"sendem" wrote in message news:[email]...

It was Leela saying the words "Go <beep> yourself." A single dot/dit/beep in Morse is the letter "E".

It was a humorous juxtaposition of multiple uses for beeps!

"Ari Johnson" wrote in message news:3Y6Cc.68$iU6.54@fed1read03...

I'm fluent in Morse, but my Season 4 DVDs won't be here until late August.

Anyone have a link to a sound file of the portion in question?