Ahh, well... I see what my problems are now... I don't speak 6 languages (not too far off though) and I would never work in drag... "He always denied she was a spy," :) --- A On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:42 PM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry Andrew...I only have 4 languages...Scottish, English, > Anglo-Saxon...and...Bad, with a smattering of the vernacular the technical; > the usual group of the northern Indo-European set. I did apply for a job > as a spy at one time, (I can't think why they rejected me...as I was very > keen and had learned all that tradecraft). > > I am very practical and can do all sorts of DIY stuff, plumbing and > electrical wiring, ventilation, phone work, television engineering, hi-fi > equipment, radios, washing machines, white goods...all that sort of thing. > Getting too old to follow people these days, bad eyesight, poor hearing, > slowed down a bit, and I have become disillusioned with heroes, they always > seem to let one down, I have found, masters of deception and manipulation. > My problem is, I think, that I am a sucker for a good story...:-). > > A spy I knew in the Communist Party at one time, told me that one needs at > least 6 languages to be a good at the trade, or is it profession..., and a > very high level of academic education at a proper spy school, college and > Ivy league university. He always denied she was a spy, so I was never > able to work out whether he/she was KGB, MI5 or CIA...or all of 'em... :-). > > I do have a Ph.D in Bovine Scatology though... :-). > > ATB > Dougie. > > > On 02/12/14 14:56, Andrew Hornback wrote: > > Sure... American CIA speak, Hebrew and Sanskrit, please. :) > > --- A > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:43 AM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Do you want me to decrypt the Neuro Linguistic Programming Programme into >> English Or American CIA speak, with model number, date and time and history >> of the human operating system...mind mapped into a brainstorm...and whose >> copyright it is? Or would you prefer them in plaintext...:-). >> The affadavits the judges in the US courts have to deal with...No wonder >> they have to be highly paid. Wordsmiths unite on the semantic tableau...or >> is it symantec... :-). >> ATB >> Dougie. > >