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January 31, 2012

Topless Models, Doing Semaphore, Wave their flags as she walks by and, get ignored

One hundred and sixty five years ago, the Royal Navy closed its high-speed network.

In an age before telegraph, phone or the Internet semaphore enabled the admiralty in London to communicate with ships in Portsmouth in a matter of minutes.

In fairness, if they sent the message on foot it would still arrive several months before DHL.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 31, 2012 08:47 AM