Tom wins.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Right. I can't imagine being able(or wanting to, really) unload that stuff at work. Where they see me all the time. And might not need to picture certain things about me. The same reason I didn't tell attendant stories at college, really. (Although I do on occasion feel truly burdened by American squeamishness in re bodily functions.)
How can they release WWI era secrets of the CIA when it didn't exist until after WWII? Are the CIA secret possessors of a time machine?
Okay, why was there a puddle of butter in my desk, and why was my phone in it?
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Bwah! Too bad that's not quite COMMable, because it's certainly worthy.
Are the CIA secret possessors of a time machine?
In the warehouse with the Ark of the Covenant.
In the warehouse with the Ark of the Covenant.
And we know where that is now!
Which is a spoiler for that show. You know, that one. That I like. With the charisma. And the chemistry.
Well, it's the CIA releasing them, but of course you're right:
The six documents were first held by the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War I, and at least one was obtained from the French.
But, as the CIA said Tuesday, the intended recipients of all this secret stuff are not always clear.
One document listing seven formulas is on Department of Commerce letterhead, and a chemist at the Bureau of Standards recommends that some of the invisible ink solutions be used with a quill pen rather than a steel pen because of the risk of corrosion.
Another document in the collection was intended to teach U.S. postal inspectors how to detect secret ink. The pamphlet, listing 50 possible scenarios in which invisible ink could be employed, was prepared by a handwriting expert in San Francisco.
That's just cover for the time machine, which is still classified.
This may be relevant to our interests. Mini-crossbows [link]