Ace Watawa Life researcher agent Zoom has come back with the scoop. She may have feigned a running injury to gain access. I don’t know. I don’t like to ask too many questions. This is her report.

Re Chinese Ditda:

- no Morse code
- no acupuncture, manipulation with hand only
- Chinese Ditda fix twisted tendons and pinched nerves
- running pain probably caused by twisted tendon or pinched nerve
- acupuncture won’t fix root problem, just treat symptom
- chinese ditda will fix root problem
- how you hear about us? a blog? what a blog?

…What a blog! That’s the same thing we were wondering.

Here’s a picture:

Morse code is a way of sending messages when you only have two signals: a dot, pronounced “Dit,” and a dash, pronounced “Dah.” It was used in the days of the telegraph. Being able to pronounce it meant that you could practice it by speaking it with your voice, the same way as tabla players can sing drum lines.

For example, the distress signal for a sinking ship, “SOS,” would be spoken as Dit Dit Dit – Dah Dah Dah – Dit Dit Dit.

I thought the sign meant that the people in that building were engaged in sending messages to China. I didn’t think they actually used the telegraph, but I thought the name was left over from a time when they did, and that “Ditda” meant “Telegraph” in some pidgin dialect from, oh, the opium wars.

Maybe they were asking if everyone was ok in the earthquake.

Junior Forest Wardens are something they had out in BC. We wore red shirts with green ties and we studied the same kind of woodcraft the Boy Scouts did, but without the fascist overtones.

Mostly we were out to prevent forest fires. Smokey the Bear was our pal.

I was an indifferent Junior Forest Warden, but my brother John was hard core. I’m pretty sure he had memorized the entire Morse code. And not only that, he knew semaphore (same thing but with flags), and he could identify every tree in the forest.

The crack Watawa Life research team has learned that Junior Forest Wardens still exist, and in fact they have spread across the country. Plus now they let girls in. Here are some Junior Forest Wardens posing with Smokey the Bear.

I notice they aren’t wearing their ties. Tut-tut.

It kind of makes me wonder how much more of what I think I know is just a bunch of made-up nonsense.

Which reminds me… What did the Boxer Rebellion have to do with boxing?