I did find what the ‘shave and a haircut’ meant to 19th century telegraphers.
SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT TWO BITS CODE
Note: possibly Morse Code lingo has evolved since I got my scouting merit badge 50 years ago or is this a demonstration of RR’s secret scrambling skills – RR think Standard English would be preferable under these circumstances!
SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT TWO BITS PLUS
If the reference was to my reply (we would also discuss that at the meeting) – that is, the ‘shave-and-a-haircut’ door knock, which I have always heard (and still use) and which is the same as the one referred to in the Cassell’s Dictionary (follow their tit tums to the final tum tum ) – I would ask which one he/she is talking about plus the meaning of: The rest we’d have a conference on and discuss the possibilities of a career in cryptology (for the enemy). If I were grading this response I’d give it an “A’ for ambiguity and ‘F’ for clarity – and that’s only for the first sentence. ‘All’ could mean the original poster plus the two respondents, or it could mean just the two respondents, or it could mean that the last respondent was ‘completely’ confused, or. The statement ‘you're all confused’ is wrought with ambiguity.
So after all this obfuscation, where did the original ‘barber’s knock’ come from (and thus the ‘shave-and-a-haircut) – who knows?Ĭan anyone decode what old RR is talking about. ––––––––––––––––––––––-īARBER’S KNOCK noun a double-knock, the first hard, the second far softer (cf. SHAVE-AND-A-HAIRCUT noun (originally U.S.): a sequence of knocks, tum-ti-ti-tum-tum, often as ‘shave-and-a-haircut – two bits,’ which has a final tum-tum (cf. But nothing simple and obvious jumps right out at me (maybe someone else sees something that I’m missing), but I tend to think that the Morse Code thing is probably bogus. The only thing that I could say for sure, is that the message ends in TT or M. Not sure what the four dots (dot dot dot dot ) for the ‘H’ in the original question refers to. ‘dash dot dot dash dash (pause) dash dash’ with the only for-sure space before the last two dashes. Translating the standard ‘barber’s knock’ into dots and dashes gives: This overlaps with the dates for the ‘barber’s knock’ so the Morse possibility cannot be eliminated by date. The American Morse Code had some deficiencies and it used only dots and spaces whereas the International Morse Code as we know it today (using dots, dashes, and spaces) was adopted in 1851. Morse invented the American Morse Code and demonstrated a working system in 1836 and the historic message ‘What hath God wrought?’ was sent from Washington to Baltimore. The ‘barbers knock’ (see below) predates the tap dancing of vaudeville of the early decades of the 1900s, so that’s out. I’ll fist look at dates to see what makes sense. There is also the expression ‘shave-and-a-haircut, two-bits' rhythm which just refers to a simple basic uncomplicated beat, especially of such early rockers or pre-rockers (1950s) as Bo Diddley (note that in this sense the beat is nothing specific and isn’t necessarily the ‘barbers knock’ pattern quoted above). The SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT that I’m familiar with comes from the familiar “barber’s” knock which is ‘tum ti ti tum tum (pause) tum tum.’ – used a lot in camp songs and for knocking on doors. Linda, Not sure what the anonymous respondent is talking about with that pattern of Dahs and Dihs given.
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