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To: Red Badger
During WWII, GIs would ask a stranger “Who won the World Series last year?”

I remember reading a mystery by Isaac Asimov where the brilliant detective determined the identify if a spy by quizzing him on the national anthem. The fact the he knew there was a second verse to it and knew the words proved he was a spy because no actual American knows this.

9 posted on 01/04/2023 7:31:51 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: pepsi_junkie

“... quizzing him on the national anthem. The fact the he knew there was a second verse to it and knew the words proved he was a spy because no actual American knows this.”

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When I was in highschool a college friend obtained for me a fake ID, which I had to memorize so I could go drinking with them around campus. By the time we got to the fourth bar, my cognitive abilities were fully lubricated (not in a good way) and the bouncer asked me what my middle name was. I quickly blurted “S”
He said he was going to have to keep the ID and that was not admitted. D’oh!


10 posted on 01/04/2023 7:42:40 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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