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« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2011, 10:01:30 pm » |
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Did we not just see something of a (3-line?) communication between SR & ST about this? Being aware that there is talk outside the sphere of secrecy, and agreeing not to be aware?* Leading me, at least, to believe that the future includes the breaking of said silence sphere.
*this would be a sharp and apt observation, if I could find the bleeping thing.**
**in the car the other night: my 8-year-old uses "bleeping" as an actual profanity.*** I've since adopted it.
***I swear they're not sheltered. (Just polite!)
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« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2011, 10:08:55 pm » |
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Oh. Because it was the brand-new bit, when I read it half-asleep without even checking in here on the boards. Where everyone was already discussing this. Sheesh. Nevermind! <shutting-up commences>
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"I was waiting for the dotted yellow. I'm not Chaz." It was a rich, hallucinatory web of geometry...
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« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2011, 02:50:29 am » |
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....I think enough of us here have worked for a federal agency to have encountered the quintuplicate carbon paper form, but in case you haven't: I didn't make that up.
I think these things are true everywhere, though for something you really couldn't make up, we've had not one but two recent cases of cabinet ministers dumping sensitive material in public waste bins (see here and here). I was discussing it with friends, both civil service, one current, one ex, and we all agreed we'd have been pretty much sacked on the spot for that kind of thing, the ministers both got away without even a serious reprimand. |
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« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2011, 02:39:33 am » |
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The only [ahem] family question I have, really, is Gray. Danny's got a lot of duty and suppression built up, and he's internalized a lot of macho. I suspect he'll find a wrong solution on his own, and be forced to change it by circumstances/Gray/the team. I guess we'll see.
And Gray's State Department; we don't know what he does there, but I suspect he may also have Things He Cannot Discuss going on. I can just imagine the conversations those two have: "So how was work today, honey?" "Uh, it was ... well, I spent a lot of time watching a video, uh, not a very nice video. Also there was paperwork which was uh. Hm. Well, there was a lot of it. And how was your day?" "I ... also ... did ... lots ... of paperwork. Because um. Unless there was something about it on the news already which there should not have been, we're having a problem with people from Country Name Redacted not doing what they said they would do. So we're trying to sort that out." "Damn those recalcitrant foreigners." "Indeed. And people who still want things in quintuplicate on carbon paper." "Yeah, damn them too. Wait, no, damn them first. Recalcitrant foreigners might have some kind of valid justification." ....I think enough of us here have worked for a federal agency to have encountered the quintuplicate carbon paper form, but in case you haven't: I didn't make that up. If Gray is DSS with State, he may be involved in, um, more vigorous forms of negotiations. That is not to understate the quintuplicate carbon paper form, of which it took me 4 or 5 before I typed one up perfectly the last time I did one. |
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« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2011, 07:09:04 pm » |
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If Gray is DSS
If Gray was DSS, would he have needed to wait for a big, strong, handsome man to come along and rescue him when he broke down? |
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« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2011, 01:45:34 pm » |
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If Gray is DSS
If Gray was DSS, would he have needed to wait for a big, strong, handsome man to come along and rescue him when he broke down? If I'd known Danny Brady was coming, I would have waited! |
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #21 on: December 01, 2011, 06:21:58 am » |
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If Gray is DSS
If Gray was DSS, would he have needed to wait for a big, strong, handsome man to come along and rescue him when he broke down? If I'd known Danny Brady was coming, I would have waited! So you're saying he was stalking Danny?  |
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« Reply #22 on: December 01, 2011, 12:49:22 pm » |
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Aww, it's not stalking if you just hang around in the hall by your locker just in case the Drama Club meeting happens to be over a little bit early... (Or if, as in this case, you slip on the wet hallway floor just as the Drama Club meeting is letting out, land on your butt, and find that nice kid from sixth period Geometry holding out his hand to help you up.)
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Falkner to Worth: "'Competent'" is not an insult."
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« Reply #23 on: December 01, 2011, 02:44:37 pm » |
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So you're saying he was stalking Danny? You say stalking, I say making your own luck... |
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #24 on: December 01, 2011, 05:35:42 pm » |
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Aww, it's not stalking if you just hang around in the hall by your locker just in case the Drama Club meeting happens to be over a little bit early... (Or if, as in this case, you slip on the wet hallway floor just as the Drama Club meeting is letting out, land on your butt, and find that nice kid from sixth period Geometry holding out his hand to help you up.)
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« Reply #25 on: December 01, 2011, 06:23:59 pm » |
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So what you're saying is it's only stalking if it doesn't work It's stalking if the person you're interested in says they're not interested in you, and you don't go away. (Sorry, this is something that I... don't find funny? I dunno. Am not offended, just... needed to say that, get it out there.) |
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« Reply #26 on: December 01, 2011, 06:50:23 pm » |
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Yeah, we'll call this joke wrapped, all. It's funnier as a one-liner. (And I can certify that Gray and his car had no idea they were doing anything but driving to work that day.  ) |
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Falkner to Worth: "'Competent'" is not an insult."
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« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2011, 02:44:50 pm » |
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Seriously, that certification is a great comfort to me. The idea that Gray might have targeted Danny for good or ill was kinda messing with me in both a reader-brain and friend-brain way.
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« Reply #28 on: December 03, 2011, 08:41:22 pm » |
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Seriously, that certification is a great comfort to me. The idea that Gray might have targeted Danny for good or ill was kinda messing with me in both a reader-brain and friend-brain way.
I second that, and whew. (I *like* Gray!) |
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« Reply #29 on: December 08, 2011, 06:52:04 am » |
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Yeah, apologies if a bit of throw-away humour was triggery for people.
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