[optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
- From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:04:57 -0600
I should've type "if life imitates art"? (grin) I was making up the
Christmas Spaghetti and listening to Prairie Home Companion and frantically
searching for my poor missing Optacon mat.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:51 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
> Well, that's really interesting, I didn't know that.
>
> See what all you can learn from being on this list? <smile>
>
> Don
>
>
>
> On 12/19/2009 1:43 PM, Nick Dotson wrote:
>> In the old days, those numbers used to be used to "play the numbers" in
>> places like New York and San Francisco's China Towns at least as
>> portrayed
>> in Detective Novels of the 20's through the 50's, and in some movies. So
>> if
>> art does really immitates art... (grin)
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "don bishop"<w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To:<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:19 PM
>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>>
>>
>>> Maybe it varies from one cookie brand to another, but the ones we get
>>> around here sometimes have chinese characters on the reverse side, and
>>> others have had a series of numbers, apparently your lucky number. But
>>> whatever it is,there always seems to be something.
>>>
>>> It helps to read them on a textured surface of some sort as they tend to
>>> want to slide around on a smooth table. It's even more fun if they're
>>> slightly wrinkled.<smile>
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/19/2009 1:15 PM, Natalie wrote:
>>>> What's on the back? I have never tried to read one but thought it was
>>>> just
>>>> a fortune.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "don bishop"<w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To:<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 1:18 PM
>>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Yes,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been reading fortune cookies for years. It's also interesting to
>>>>> turn them over and read what's on the back.
>>>>>
>>>>> Don
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/19/2009 9:46 AM, Dan and Bonnie Tonge wrote:
>>>>>> That is a neat story, and I have also had times when I didn't think
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> was anything I could read on a box or something and then picked it up
>>>>>> again later and found that there was, even on just an electrical
>>>>>> adaptor.
>>>>>> Has anyone ever read their fortune from a fortune cookie with the
>>>>>> Optacon? I didn't think it would work, but hey, it did. I thought
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> was pretty neat reading my fortune with the Optacon. I thought the
>>>>>> writing would be too small, but there it was.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Linda Gehres"<ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> To: "Optacon List"<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:31 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yesterday I received a package which didn't contain any labels that
>>>>>> could
>>>>>> be felt. I scanned the
>>>>>> package on both sides perhaps too quickly with my Optacon, finding
>>>>>> primarily information about sending
>>>>>> packages via priority mail for a flat shipping rate but nothing as to
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> package's sender or
>>>>>> recipient. Too curious to leave it at that, I opened the box,
>>>>>> thinking
>>>>>> that if there were a note inside,
>>>>>> it would be typed if the package was for me. Alas, the note appeared
>>>>>> handwritten, but I was too tired
>>>>>> and frustrated to try to discern whether the note was printed or in
>>>>>> cursive writing. A friend happened
>>>>>> to call last night, and I was filling him in on this whole story,
>>>>>> griping
>>>>>> that the post office had
>>>>>> probably, as usual, misdelivered a Christmas package to my address.
>>>>>> I decided this morning when I got up to re-examine the box, and
>>>>>> finally,
>>>>>> I found a zip code which I
>>>>>> recognized as being that of my brother and his family near
>>>>>> Washington,
>>>>>> D.C. And the note turned out
>>>>>> to be in print and in all caps! So, the wonderful and beloved Optacon
>>>>>> does it again! All it takes
>>>>>> is a lot of patience sometimes!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linda Gehres
>>>>>>
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