brian douglas skinner
contents > 1990 > pentagon

 

a note from my business partner
re: his day-job at the pentagon

Date:    Thu, 11 Jan 1990 
From:    pyrdc!uunet!sysp1.af.mil!r
To:      lighthouse!everyone
Subject: News from within   
So I was sitting in the Pentagon Library, reading Byte and 
InfoWorld and fantasizing about that new librarian, when I
noticed the pleasant-looking man next to me excitedly scanning 
a magazine.  He paused his page turning after a few moments, 
and I took a peak at the article title: "Future Trends in the 
Design of Tank Engines".   

Then I had one of those flashes of metaphorical insight...  
I realized with utter clarity that this man politely sharing a 
table with me was actually *plotting to kill people*.  In fact, 
all the people in the whole building were conspiring in cold 
blood to commit mass murder.  In any other context, they would 
be jailed, some of them even executed for past crimes.   

So this all reminds me, in the advertising paper about 
Lighthouse's contracting abilities we should mention 
that I have a secret level clearance.

Have a nice day!