Monday, October 23, 2006

Spies like us...

Have you seen the television commercial for the CIA? I don’t know about anyone else but I can’t remember ever seeing advertisements of any kind for CIA recruitment. I wonder if it’s due to the beating that its image has taken recently?

Anyway, I thought the commercial was a little dull. We’re not talking about working at McDonald's here, this is espionage…cloak and dagger stuff. You need to appeal to people’s inner James Bond, so I’m taking this opportunity to show them how it should have been done…

Have you ever wanted to topple a foreign government or assassinate a rogue dictator? Do you find yourself fighting the urge to secretly video tape your friends and family? Does the thought of breaking international law and then denying all knowledge of it turn you on? Think you could run a secret prison?

Well, as part of the CIA, you’ll be able to do all those things and more all in the name of national security. The best part is, as a clandestine organization, we never really have to answer to anyone! Hell, some of the stuff that we’re doing is so hush-hush, that even we don’t know what’s going on.

If you’d like one of our brochures, call the number at the bottom of your screen… let it ring twice and then hang up…we’ll get one out to you right away. If you act now we’ll throw in this official CIA fleece jacket for free. Well, actually it was paid for with your tax dollars, but it’s a real nice jacket…so call today!

4 comments:

Dan said...

Awesome! The amazing thing is that the mailman ... er ... mailperson ... no ... letter carrier (who also carries packages occasionally) just left and believe it or not, the information from the CIA already arrived!

And I didn't even have to ring twice! They must have noticed that the acronym "CIA" was on my screen for the 90 seconds it took to read this blog post. Since the "interest" threshold of, say, 60 seconds was exceeded, this triggered a message to the letter carrier who grabbed an extra package from his truck and delivered it right to my mailbox. What efficiency!

robkroese said...

Dan, do NOT open that package!

Dan said...

Diesel, I really think you're being a bit paranoid ... there's really nothing to fear ... let me just grab these scissors right here ... and ...

POWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raymond Betancourt said...

Red Rover to Eagle's nest..."The boil has been lanced", over.