Have never dipped tobacco, but I can do the motion you’re describing, if I pinch my thumb and middle finger together so that my index finger hits them it makes a pretty solid thwack sound

Can only do it with my right hand though, my left index finger just doesn’t go limp enough or have the same range of motion or something

Civilian side radio users, like fire, ems, or police, have a different one

911 dispatcher here- pretty much everywhere around me uses the NATO phonetics, except one neighboring county that I’m pretty sure doesn’t use any sort of standardized phonetics at all, or at least their officers and dispatchers and such can’t be bothered to use it.

Things aren’t totally standardized across the country though, different 10-codes (or no 10-codes at all,) different terminology, different phonetic alphabets, etc.

There’s some old timers around my county who have been around forever who tend to fall back into other systems from time to time, or people occasionally have a brain fart and have to spit out something different on the spot.

I’m pretty sure APCO at least strongly recommends using the NATO alphabet.

Right now, it is news that Democrats have won such a big majority. It’s a new development, that journalists are writing articles about, and those articles are being published on nevs websites.

The first website as we know it didn’t come around until 1991, so no news websites existed for them to be posted on.

By 1992, it wasn’t news anymore, it was just the way things were at the time. People wouldn’t exactly have been writing articles in 1992 treating the majority like it was a noteworthy new development.

Also, don’t underestimate just how small the world wide web was back then, it’s hard to nail down exact numbers, but there were probably only a few dozen websites by the end of 1992, and a decent chunk of them were tech companies, universities, research centers, etc.

And the web was a different place then too, websites were much more static and simple things, you usually didn’t have constant updates, live feeds, or the kinds of user-generated content we get these days.

I wish I still had it, but circa 2009 I was in high school taking a web design class, one of our projects was to design a website for an amusement park, being a bunch of nerds in a programming class, we had some pretty weird ideas for parks, mine was MemeLand

Off the top of my head

The front gate was a big circle being held open by 2 hands (goatse, if you’re not familiar I recommend not googling that)

There was a picture on the wall of shame at the entrance saying that Milhouse was not permitted (Milhouse is not a meme)

The tallest roller coaster was the Longcat

A leekspin Ferris wheel

A petting zoo full of cats, mudkips, badgers, and other meme critters

A chocolate rain log flume ride

The RickRollerCoaster

A dark ride “Queen Boxxy’s Castle”

There was a drop tower sort of ride sunken into a deep hole called THIS IS SPARTA

A gravitron ride sponsored by Blendtec

One of the food options available in the park was NONE Pizza with Left Beef.

Bawls was the only beverage option.