Chuck

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Hey, just finished drawing up that quick one page business plan for you.

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And by the way, I wanted to thank you for sending over that beautiful nosegay of wilted white roses delivered upside down with a ribbon to the left.

Yeah, I'd have to get out a decoder book or whatever.

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Unspoken because at the time in the UK and parts of the US, obviously in Europe and certain high societies mainly, you could not speak these things aloud a lot of times.

It was untoward.

So you had to have a coded way of talking to each other.

And if you're thinking like, oh, yeah, you send flowers to someone and that means something.

It goes deep.

I mean, it is literally a code.

And that's what I was kind of referring to with the upside down and the wilted and where the ribbons tied, like all that stuff means something.

Yeah, that's wonderful.

So this is nothing new or was nothing new back then.

Coded messages through flowers goes back to the 1600s, at least in the Ottoman Empire, when they had a tradition called Selem or Selem, S-E-L-A-M, which was a game where between the members of the harem of Constantinople, where they would send flowers attached with like rhymes and meanings and stuff like that to communicate with one another.

I'm not sure if it's a long or shorty.

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And by the way, I mentioned a couple of puns in the Operation Paul Bunyan episode.