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My Dear Persifilageous Chum ! Had you poor Mum never noticed the John Wayne Syndrome ? Y'know - like when wimps swagger from cinema to saloon.....

ROT13 was used 80+ years ago in the armed forces, originally (and oh so tediously) worked out by hand. It kinda worked with latterday heliograph and semaphore. Became slightly easier with morse, but carrying the kit was a killer !

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I wasn't aware of the history of ROT-13. I imagined they used a sliding alphabet thing. I used to do that ages ago, when I was school age. You write out the alphabet twice, with all the letters in a row on one line, and slide the upper one over the lower one for each letter. Still a pain in the posterior, but not quite as much. And no, I don't think my mum did!

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Clever clever, Terry. I like it.

I didn't know Shift+F3 was the shortcut to make everything uppercase. That's actually quite handy for me for a few things I work on as one webpage I use often spits out DNA sequences in lowercase and I want them uppercase and usually resort to copy/pasting them and formatting them in Word, but the keyboard shortcut will add extra efficiency!

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Thanks, Nathan. That only works in Word. On a Mac, you have to press the Fn key as well. It's a toggle switch: highlight the text, and use shift+f3 to go from lower case to sentence case to upper case to lower case. Outside of Word, copy and paste the text into https://convertcase.net/ and use that instead. I sometimes find that having been typing away looking at the keyboard that I've typed a whole paragraph in the wrong case, so these options have saved Mr having to type it all again. Glad it was of some use, Nathan.

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Thanks Terry. I'm PC, so Word is good for me.

I've sometimes done this in Google Docs, which allows you to toggle case too.

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Indeed, though I always forget the shortcut keys to use in Docs. I'm also more of a Word man.

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Oooh, you've reawakened my inner geek, Terry! A fascinating post - thank you so much!

PS Murray Walker! 🤣😆😂 Sadly missed, but oh boy, that was marvellous!

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Oh Murray, come back, bring Stanley Unwin with you, all is forgiven

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oh yes! I'd forgotten about him. And my wife has never heard of him. OMG. I must rectify that

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🤣

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Yes -- interesting and definitely geeky. With my personal lack of computer knowledge, your explanation and procedural steps were as mystifying to me as the actual coded text! ha ha ha. The lengths you go to to entertain and educate us, Terry, do not go unnoticed. And also tell us what kind of dedicated teacher you are.

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Terry and Ken Dodd, what a double act. Pity they never met.....

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someone else mentioned Ken Dodd and me. I could never stand the bloke, just didn't find him funny. Maybe I should have another look

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LOL. Thanks, Sharron. I was rather doubtful about posting that, because 99% of my readers wouldn’;t be interested I think, but I did it for the other 1%! I’ll have to make up for it somehow.

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I love the video. 😃

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It’s great, isn’t it! Chortle.

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A bit geeky? Now that’s some persiflage! 😀

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I may have been guilty of a bit of British understatement. 😃

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Tom, I'd say you've just won this comments thread! 🤣

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He's nailed it, to use modern parlance

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Murray is great! As soon as I finished reading this post, I thought, "How would the ROT13 version be spoken, and if young Terry heard *that* on the street, would he be able to repeat it? That might have given his mum a fright." 😄

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Can't help but wonder how Murray would have recorded you dashing past on your Bicycle.....

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😁

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😂

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🤣 I wouldn’t even know how to begin! But yes, it would have given my mum a heart attack. Chortle.

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🤣

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😵‍💫

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🤣🤣🤣 Sorry, June!

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YAH not just MI6 but almost everyone in Military Comms

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Dang. My secret unveiled.

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