Dr. Hamilton:
Agent Palaver has given your "Double Agent: Doubly Suspect" file to us for
immediate perusal subject to your scheduled status hearing.
We have followed your clandestine routine closely this week, and we find
your inordinate interest in our intra-agency actions sufficient to raise
suspicion. We have, in particular, noted the excerpt in the vehicle
POETRYETC (which see at bottom).
We are not amused. We find your "academic research" only a slight pretense
relative to your larger efforts to undermine our authority over your Special
Agent agenda. As you well know, given in Sec.2b/41, your
"Expertise-Sanctioning" is delimited to UK activities. It does not permit
your forays, however subtle, however "innocent," into historical references
in sensitive political areas in your extra-agent country, namely, the U.S.A.
We find the evidence of your "straying" beyond your UK clandestine
boundaries into OUR sector of the MultiEconMilitGov grid unacceptable in the
extreme.
We have, therefore, proceeded with your employment status review. We have
compacted your history files, deleted all reports of your prior activities
and their order-chain administrative postings in your country as well as
ours. We have, further, denied your access to our U.S.A. agents effective
upon the date and hour of this communique.
You will find enclosed the BlueFile for your next assignment, under agent
Jacques Clouseau, in Bora Bora, together with your new decoder ring, badge,
and "I.D.-UK" microchip. The microchip must be planted within 12 hours of
its receipt. Agent 0078 will contact you via UK-BB PadPod within 2 hours of
your receipt of this communique. The microchip installation requires
relatively pain-free out-agent surgery. Its effects cannot be known
completely since its engineering was developed from a global inter-agency,
and you are well aware of the oft-confusing "cooperative" clandestine
efforts of globals, particularly in your sector.
Your new agent name: Bill Clinton.
We will not---repeat, not---acknowledge the addition-name, Hilary Clinton.
We cannot place a U.S.A. elected official in a jeopardizing position.
WELCOME TO YOUR NEW ASSIGNMENT AND DESTINATION, MR. CLINTON.
Sincerely,
Roger and over Diablo
P.S. We will be incommunicado for the month of October while we
close-inspect Quadruple Agent Prince whom we've deployed in Scotland. She
will contact you mid-October. Her microchip in place, she will morph her
IDBBUK/VB hard drive in London with the hard-drive of agent Vileboris
Catflap. Be ready for Catflap's soon-ensuing orders.
_________
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005
Roger's two posts probably have more than this already, but for what it's
worth, here are the relevant entries in the OED2[3]. It does give quite a
lot of specific examples.
bull-dose, -doze, n. and v.
[According to U.S. newspapers, f. bull n.1 + dose.]
A. n. ? A severe dose (of flogging).1876 American Newspr., If a negro is
invited to join it [a society called 'The Stop'], and refuses, he is taken
to the woods and whipped. This whipping is called a 'bull-doze', or doze fit
for a bull. 1881 Sat. Rev. 9 July 40/2 A 'bull-dose' means a large
efficient dose of any sort of medicine or punishment.
B. v. (The usual spelling, influenced by bulldozer 2a, is now bulldoze.)
1. a. ? To flog severely. b. To coerce by violence, intimidate.
1880 C. B. Berry Other Side 155 They+pull him out of bed with a revolver to
his head+That's called 'bull-dosing' a man. 1881 Sat. Rev. 9 July 40/2
To 'bull-dose' a negro in the Southern States means to flog him to death, or
nearly to death. 1884 H. George Social Prob. 16 Large Employers regularly
'bulldose' their hands into voting as they wish. 1897 E. A. Bartlett
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