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   Message 12,100 of 13,334   
   Sean Dennis to Mike Powell   
   My pet peeves   
   04 May 19 10:58:42   
   
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   Hello Mike,   
      
   03 May 19 20:19 at you wrote to HOLGER GRANHOLM:   
      
    MP> I learned some of it because my uncle was a truck driver and, when I   
    MP> was young, there were a lot of pop culture references in the US about   
    MP> truckers (a hit TV show about a trucker and his pet monkey, a hit song   
    MP> about a truck convoy, etc.).   I do not remember much of it now,   
    MP> except that:   
      
    MP> 10-4 is over and out   
    MP> 10-20 is location (as in "what is your 10-20"?)   
      
   Those 10 codes were originally used by law enforcement.   
      
   10-100 is "Using the bathroom".   
      
   Oh, you're talking about "BJ and the Bear" and "Convoy". :D   
      
   Later,   
   Sean   
      
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