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Do you know anybody, historically even, who sent/received a TELEGRAM

  • 08-12-2016 03:59PM
    #1
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭


    Choose in the Poll. Explain who in the thread.

    Do you know somebody who sent / received a TELEGRAM 107 votes

    Yes.
    0% 0 votes
    No.
    78% 84 votes
    WTF are you talking about / Atari Jaguar Option.
    21% 23 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Inspector Morse...


  • #3
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,649 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    YES STOP


  • #4
    notsoyoungwan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭notsoyoungwan


    Yes. My father, now in his 80s, sent one from Dublin to his parents in kerry to let them know his brother (also in Dublin)had needed emergency surgery and was doing ok after it.


  • #5
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Yes.

    Congratulations on my wedding :-)

    1983 or 2 I forget now.


  • #6
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Got a rake of them at home from the parents wedding.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My mother worked as telephonist in the P&T in the 1950s and learned Morse code all her life she could remember the dots and dashes code.


  • #8
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,280 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    My parents did back in the 80's. They also sent/received telex's.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Got a rake of them at home from the parents wedding.

    Same, my parents have them from their wedding day.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Grayson wrote: »
    My parents did back in the 80's. They also sent/received telex's.

    Had to look that up. I was never aware of such a thing before.


  • #11
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I found one from 1982 while moving house a few years ago STOP It was sent by my mum's colleagues congratulating her for giving birth to me STOP

    Ah, stop.


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  • #12
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,649 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    ADRIAN STOP COMING HOME STOP
    What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!


  • #13
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,571 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Telegram Sam


  • #14
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!
    YUP I'm a fan of these books by Sue Townsend as well (RIP):D


  • #15
    readytosnap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭readytosnap


    Got a couple on my wedding day from relatives in Ireland, still have them after more than 30 years, I have to say, they aged better than the missus.


  • #16
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,810 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Yes my grandparents got some on their wedding day in 1960 which my grandmother still has along with the photo album.


  • #17
    westcoast66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭westcoast66


    I spent some time in south america in the 90's. A few weeks after I got home, I got a telegram (or TELEX?) from a girlfriend I had over there. I didn't know what to do with it! Seems like a relic from pre email days.


  • #18
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    My grandparents, all now in their 80s. They would send and receive them from relatives down the country and abroad.


  • #19
    cajonlardo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cajonlardo


    i went for a job interview in 1986.

    I was told immediately that I was not successful. I lived in a flat back then but the next day a telegram was sent out to my parents house asking to comeback and that they wanted to offer me an alternative role. It was all very exciting stuff back then and I was sooooooooooo important :) That and the wedding ones ( '87)


  • #20
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!

    PLEASE STOP


  • #21
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,280 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    In 20 years time there'll be a thread "Does anyone know anyone who has sent an SMS."


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  • #22
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,217 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    Do you know anybody who sent/received a TELEGRAM?

    Sam.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_pm2wPR5u4


  • #23
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    What's a telegram?


  • #24
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    “Yes, I’d like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aero mail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?”


  • #25
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I remember as a child at my cousin's wedding in the early 1980s and they received a telegram.


  • #26
    testicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭testicles


    This post has been deleted.


  • #27
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    testicles wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqSdDjOPgQ


  • #28
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,805 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    We got several for wedding and first two children. We were abroad at the time. Also remember vaguely a scattering of them from my childhood and teens, but generally they were not particularly noteworthy -except that they were expensive to send - so I have no idea what they were about. People travelling mostly I think.

    The cheaper alternative was postcards. I recently found one my mum sent her mother, she (mum) was working, in service, and sent a postcard to say she would get one bus to a nearby town and another to her home. She was 14 at the time.


  • #29
    Randle P. McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Randle P. McMurphy


    Sent one to my parents in the 70's. Needed money in a hurry to get back home.


  • #30
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I sent and received many in my youth when in countries where phones were few. Pre mobile phones a telegram was a marvel.


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  • #31
    thefishone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭thefishone


    Remember back in the early 80s,two lads from school getting a job with
    P&T to deliver telegrams,short lived job it turned out.


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