WsOTY? "New Cold War"; "to ping"

[victor steinbok]

Oxford Dictionaries OL (not OED) has an interesting one for ping:
"Contact a person briefly (especially electronically): he just pinged
me, pointing to a breaking news story "

VS-)

On 3/16/14, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> WG: <<What is PING?>>
> WB:  Think of a PING as a facebook POKE for submarines & airplanes.
> Sometimes, they don't poke back. And we wonder why.
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