Those are some fine-looking children, Gud. And Leif really seems to hide his true nature well.

"We're not proselytizing! We're offering people the opportunity!"

More for the People Unclear On The Concept file!

Note to world: calling a drowning a "liquid breathing influx opportunity" does not unmake the drowning part of the equation. Lawyers are twisty like that, and have thought of all the newspeak already.

Are these people you're going to have to bail out of jail later?

Possibly. Well, not me or the DH, since neither of us are working in the consular section this tour. But the embassy, yeah, maybe. Depending if the Greeks decide to enforce the law. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. The Mormons hit the hospital near my house a LOT, and the Greek police will tend to arrest them there, I think mainly because the priests at the hospital call them.

(And to be really technical, the embassy can't bail out Americans. We could take them magazines and make sure they get a phone call and legal counsel. But their families/church probably would send bail.)

I neglected to identify myself as affiliated with the embassy, however.

I can't say I like being proselytized, but I'm glad I can be.

Those are some fine-looking children, Gud. And Leif really seems to hide his true nature well.

Leif really is very sweet, he just has a talent for mischief.

I neglected to identify myself as affiliated with the embassy, however.

I wonder if that would have done any good. Probably not.

And to be really technical, the embassy can't bail out Americans. We could take them magazines and make sure they get a phone call and legal counsel.

Duly noted. Um...uh...not for any reason, though.

Leif really is very sweet, he just has a talent for mischief.

I just meant mischievous! My father is completely unable to claim he wasn't a smart-ass as a kid, because you can see it in ever single photo of him.

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Heh. Didn't NPR do a piece on that this morning? I heard it when my alarm went off (some mornings I get my RDA of irony without even getting out of bed) and just giggled. Then I picked up the phone and called in to work and went back to sleep.

Now it's The Beautiful Ones by Prince, which always mellows me out.

I made a mishmash Prince mix CD for the car, and I've been listening to it nonstop for about 2 weeks.

Leif really is very sweet, he just has a talent for mischief.

Gud, you do have an amazing capacity for understatement.

Thanks to talk of Prince and covers, I have Nothing Compares 2 U in my head, but it's alternating between Sinead and Prince.