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the joke I heard growing up is they'd ask suspected spies to sing the Star Spangled Banner, and shoot them if they knew the lyrics beyond the first verse!
by sterlind 1y ago
the joke I heard growing up is they'd ask suspected spies to sing the Star Spangled Banner, and shoot them if they knew the lyrics beyond the first verse!
- eesmith 1y agoIn Issac Asimov's 1980 short story "No Refuge Could Save", the suspected German spy is identified by a word association test based on the third verse of the national anthem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Refuge_Could_Save https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Refuge_Could_Save
- alabastervlog 1y agoMaybe a spy could finally explain to me what it means for light to be donzerly.
- autarch 1y agoI think you may have misheard the lyrics. It's "donzer lee lights". Obviously, "donzerly" is not a word, but all lee lights are donzer.
- alabastervlog 1y agoOh, it makes so much more sense now. Implicitly, I suppose that makes the lights on the windward side blitzen.
- qzw 1y agoOk, I found the German imposter right here.
- alabastervlog 1y agoOh no! Damn you, Gene Autry!
- paradox460 1y agoThe general don zerlyite was an important figure in the defense of Ft McHenrry
- ninju 1y agodawn's early light :-)
- mannyv 1y agoWhat are the last two words of the star spangled banner? "Play ball!"
- m463 1y agoreminds me of a spoof game show I saw once. It was something like Are you as smart as a 5th grader? A question would be something like "Who was the 5th president?" and the answer was "Benjamin Franklin" or similar. :)
- aidenn0 1y agoI don't remember the name of the film, but there was one where (Soviet I think?) spies were caught because they threw away their copies of National Geographic.
- WalterBright 1y agoI have my grandmother's NGs from the 1920's.