Rainy. I finished my green dress. Clifton worked half a day, home about 830 pm.
Comment: And that's a big 10 4: Ten-codes, especially "10-4" (meaning "understood") first reached public recognition in the mid- to late-1950s through the popular television series Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford. Crawford would reach into his patrol car to use the microphone to answer a call and precede his response with "10-4".
Ten-codes were adapted for use by CB radio enthusiasts. C. W. McCall's hit song "Convoy" (1975), depicting conversation among CB-communicating truckers, put phrases like 10-4 and what's your twenty? (10-20 for "where are you?") into common use in American English.
The movie Convoy (1978), loosely based on McCall's eponymous song, further entrenched ten-codes in casual conversation.
The title of the police drama television series 10-8: Officers on Duty (which aired on ABC from September 28, 2003 to January 11, 2004), refers to the ten-code for "officer in service and available for calls".
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