Two or three years ago the ABC (Australian) televised a competition between a 12 year old lad who was obviously a bit of a hot shot (never seen it as "an hot shot") at txting with his mobile phone (OK, "sell phone") and a couple of nonagenarians who could send and receive Morse code.

The competition was set up so that both parties had to transmit a reasonably long question from Sydney to Perth, where it was deciphered (by another txter for the phone and one of the nonagenarians for the Morse) and the answer to the question sent back to Sydney by email.

The Morse pair won quite handsomely and the expression on the face of the lad at the news he'd been comprehensively beaten was a sight for sore eyes. I don't think a pub was involved, so I can't decide whether it would have been a hotel or an hotel.

Cheers, Rowan