AHA!

Secret Service Problem

Are those emails really lost?  The Chief says they are.  (The same guy who was hired by a former President to head the Secret Service based on a ten-minute interview.)

Mary Poppins sang about this situation: "Just look in the place where lost things go!"

And, of course, we all know about the "borrowers."  Those little creatures who grab things that we need, and hide them for a while.  They usually just live in homes, but I suppose there could be some living in Government Agencies as well.

I've written before about my interaction with the Secret Service:

In my Junior year at Boston University, I took a test for that Agency, passed it, and was interviewed for several hours by a couple of agents.

At the end, they told me I was hired and started to give me information about moving to DC.  However, upon reviewing their interview checklist, they discovered that they had not asked me one question:

"Have you ever had a job you were ashamed to have done?"

I said "yes."  When I did telephone solicitation, I always felt it was kind of dishonest to sell discounted dancing lessons to disabled and blind people, but I needed the money desperately at the time.                            

I did try to make up for it by attaching free pizza coupons to the purchases.  I wasn't supposed to do that.     

For a little while, I drove one of the blind purchasers to her dance lessons.  She loved them.   

But that didn't matter to them.  They canceled the offer.  (I sure am glad they did!)     

                                                                            BBC Music

While working on a BBC Music Magazine Cryptic Crossword, I found this answer that intrigued me:

CRAB CANON

"This is the arrangement of two musical lines that are complimentary and backwards.

Placed next to each other, the lines would form a kind of palindrome."

Named after crabs because crabs are known to walk backwards,

Some musicians like Bach worked the crab canons into Moebius Strips.

Did you get all that?  I didn't know that being a musician required so much mental work.

Women Could Strike Back

Some folks feel that women are becoming second-class citizens.  Don't they realize the ammunition they have to stop this?

Remember the Greek play Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes and performed in Athens in 411 BC? 

To get their husbands to quit their foolish warring, the wives denied all men of the land sex, "which was the only thing that they (the men) deeply desired."

It worked!

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