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A child calling Santa reached NORAD instead.
WaPo ^ | December 24th,2018 | Steve Hendrix

Posted on 12/24/2018 3:18:29 PM PST by LouieFisk

It was not a place of fun and games. And when that red phone rang — it was wired directly to a four-star general at the Pentagon — things got real. All eyes would have been on Shoup when he answered. “Col. Shoup,” he barked. But there was silence. Until finally, a small voice said, “Is this Santa Claus?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: child; christmas; norad; santa; wargames
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To: LouieFisk
No, Santa, I just wanted the board game.


21 posted on 12/24/2018 4:07:15 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: Jarhead9297

“Would you like to play a game?”

In the 90s I bought a speaking chess thingee from Radio Shack, where you play against it. It would insult you and/or make fun of you as you played against it. Fortunately you could turn that mode off, heh.

Still have that device - should fire it up again one of these days.


22 posted on 12/24/2018 4:11:43 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: KarlInOhio

Have to have a thread sometime re: Freeper’s favorite WW3 movies. Doesn’t seem Christmas is the best time for that, tho, heh.


23 posted on 12/24/2018 4:14:42 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Not a Hustler, the side glass doesn’t move when they open the lid...


24 posted on 12/24/2018 4:16:09 PM PST by null and void (The Deep State is why even though our economy is booming, the stock market is losing ground.)
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To: LouieFisk

My favorite world war zero story was published in 1898.


25 posted on 12/24/2018 4:17:31 PM PST by null and void (The Deep State is why even though our economy is booming, the stock market is losing ground.)
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To: null and void

“War Of The Worlds”, I reckon?


26 posted on 12/24/2018 4:21:32 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

My parents phone # was one digit off from the big grocery store. About once a month we’d get a misdial. In my more uncharitable moments I would play along. “Oh yes ma’am, we’ll send one out right away.” Yeesh. Idle hands really is you-know-what. Sorry lady, wherever you are. :)


27 posted on 12/24/2018 4:26:17 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: LouieFisk

Oh wow! In 20 years it’ll be an antique! That’s pretty awesome


28 posted on 12/24/2018 4:26:21 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: LouieFisk
Bart Simpson:-) I dont want to tell you about some of the crank calls I made as a kid 😂
29 posted on 12/24/2018 4:27:15 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: LouieFisk

You reckon correctly. I’m listening to the Tantor audio version right now, have 5 DVDs, a few dead tree editions and electronic versions...

...I still shudder when the tentacle touches the boot heel in the coal cellar, about 55 years since I first read it!


30 posted on 12/24/2018 4:31:51 PM PST by null and void (The Deep State is why even though our economy is booming, the stock market is losing ground.)
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To: KarlInOhio
I always preferred this premise for WW3.

31 posted on 12/24/2018 4:34:06 PM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: KarlInOhio

I haven’t seen that game in years! I wonder if it’s packed away somewhere or my wife got her hands on it and sold it.


32 posted on 12/24/2018 4:36:25 PM PST by Reily
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To: Waverunner

Isued to have this game!


33 posted on 12/24/2018 4:36:52 PM PST by Reily
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To: null and void
Thank God it wasn't Curdes, He would have shot down Santa.
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34 posted on 12/24/2018 4:39:46 PM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Jarhead9297

Hey, I found the chess device I have on youtube just now! I don’t know how this guy got it to talk on a roll like this, but it’s kinda cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXD_cu1e6g

Oh, by the way, I’M an antique already all by myself!


35 posted on 12/24/2018 4:43:17 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

It would insult you and/or make fun of you as you played against it. Fortunately you could turn that mode off, heh.
= = = = = = =
Why turn it off?

When driving I will sometimes make a wrong turn so my GPS will ‘talk’ to me.

Ever notice how she seems to get agitated when telling you to go back for the umpteenth time?

Funny how the mind picks that up because YOU would be getting upset about the same time as she does....<: <: <:


36 posted on 12/24/2018 4:47:04 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: Spacetrucker

Oh, yeah, they could be hilarious - great good fun for us rotten kids! I also enjoyed the times a good one was pulled on me, like the time I answered the phone and it went like this -

-”Hello”
- “Hello. Is this Mr. Karp?”
- “No, it isn’t”
- “I’m sorry. I must have called the wrong fish.” ::CLICK!::


37 posted on 12/24/2018 4:52:54 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: xrmusn

“When driving I will sometimes make a wrong turn so my GPS will ‘talk’ to me.”

If you turn left when it said to turn right and it says “No, I meant turn to your OTHER right”, get out of the car and run for your life!


38 posted on 12/24/2018 4:56:08 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Freedom4US

Back when all of NYC had the 212 area code, my phone # was xxy-1234. Some friends at work had it as xyy-1234.....which at the time was actually the Secret Service.


39 posted on 12/24/2018 4:59:11 PM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: null and void

“I still shudder when the tentacle touches the boot heel in the coal cellar, about 55 years since I first read it!”

I read it when I was a youngun - it was an enjoyable read, though I wasn’t heavy into SciFi. About the same time, I read Stoker’s “Dracula” - that was the one that had parts that spooked me.


40 posted on 12/24/2018 5:00:32 PM PST by LouieFisk
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