[BC] President Ford dies

Rich Wood richwood
Wed Dec 27 16:50:48 CST 2006


------ At 02:33 PM 12/27/2006, Sid Schweiger wrote: -------

>Robert Klein used to make jokes about the fact that every day, when
>kids in the Bronx went home for lunch, the city would set off a siren at
>noon (he never said why they did it).  He said the Russians, if they
>were smart, would second-guess them and drop the big one at noon ("They
>don't know, Ivan, they'll think it's lunch").

He's got a point. There was a siren at the end of my street when I 
was growing up that went off every day at noon. I guess a scheduled 
time would spook people much less than our beloved EAS requirement of 
unscheduled botched emergencies.

Rich

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