On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:58:58 GMT, Jose
wrote:

Maybe you're not old enough to have listened to Captain Midnight on
radio.

I've never listened to Captain Midnight. We won't talk about my age.
However, I am familiar with the fact that Ovaltine was touted on the
radio. Who is the telegrapher's daughter (and who is the telegrapher?)

The version I know isn't a limerick. It goes:

She was just a telegrapher's daughter,
But she did-it, did-it, did-it.

I did have Captain Midnight secret decoder, too. (The 1949 model, with
the crossed rockets), but it was just a two-wheel
alphabet-substitution gizmo. You got it for two bits and the
waxed-paper seal from the top of a jar of Ovaltine. The daily
messages, alternated Ovaltine blather with warnings about Ivan Shark.

Don