[lit-ideas] Re: The Death of the Telegram

  • From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:31:37 -0700

Andreas wrote:

a friend in Washington DC tells me that State Dept still uses telegrams, not email, for their communications. when a telegram arrives, an intern picks it up, walks it to the Secretary of State (some whose name I can't remember). when he has read it…

Note to Andreas: Condi is not Colin Powell in drag.

Robert Paul
Department of Unwarranted Studies
Mutton College
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