[AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???

[charliehill]

I love the way the US confirmed what they believed about Midway Island. 
They had figured out that the Japs intended to invade a Pacific Island and 
they believed it was Midway but did not know the Jap. code word for Midway. 
So, the US forces sent a message in the clear from Midway back to a ship or 
maybe back to the mainland saying the water de-salinazation plant was down. 
Sure enough they heard the Japs say they would need to take water 
de-salinazation equipment with them because the facilities on the island 
were down.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Merchant" <kosh at ncweb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???


> During WW-II, the US + Brits (via the Poles) cracked both the German +
> Japanese codes.
>
> Reading the German codes produced a huge amount of actionable
> intelligence, shortened the war, and saved thousands of lives.
>
> Reading the Japanese codes produced cryptic references to folklore,
> that had to be interpreted by someone who understood the culture.
>
> Dave Merchant
>
>
> At 02:35 PM 2/24/2010, you wrote:
>>Toyota with a T can be written in Japanese in 8 brush strokes and 8 is a
>>lucky number in Japan.
>>
>>Straight from Mr. Toyoda's mouth via Fox News
>>
>>Charlie
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
>>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:56 AM
>>Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???
>>
>>
>>On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Gene Dotson <gdotsly at watchtv.net> wrote:
>> > Farmer;
>> >
>> > Farmer, are you on your way to Fort Meade?
>> >
>> > Don't have any comments on Toyota(da), but our family name of "Dotson"
>> > ran the gamut form Dodd to Dodds to Dodson then Dobson and finally our
>> > branch of Dotson. Much of the changes were due to a limited education 
>> > of
>> > immigrants from Virginia through eastern Kentucky and finally to Ohio.
>> >
>> > Gene
>>==============================================
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>No, I was never going down to that show. I was just wondering if it
>>was warm enough down there to have it.
>>-
>>My paternal Robinson line was royally connected and in some cases
>>silly wealthy (not sure where my share went) so they were all highly
>>educated and the name stayed intact. We are related to General James
>>Robertson, founder of Nashville and called the father of TN. That
>>branch changed the spelling pretty early on. It was kind of funny
>>during my genealogy research that a modern member of that line had sat
>>up a family tree that while generally accurate when he got back to
>>where the name was Robinson, he ignored all of the extensive recorded
>>and published information. He changed the spelling to Robertson all
>>the way back through centuries in England and back into Scotland as if
>>it was always spelled that way.
>>I had a maternal great grandfather who's last name was spelled
>>Hobgood. He signed his marriage license like that but for some unknown
>>reason he later started using Hopgood. He did so until he died but he
>>is buried with his sister and her husband (last name Davis) back in NC
>>and his grave stone says Hobgood...???
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Have you hugged your horses today?
>>
>>Francis Robinson
>>aka "farmer"
>>Central Indiana USA
>>robinson46176 at gmail.com
>>
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