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...Sound Like I'm Here But I'm Really Not" Message: The speaker says things like, "Hello?", "Are you there?" and "Is this an obscene phone call?" as though he or she has answered the phone. Some unfortunate callers fall for the dupe; they respond to the bogus speaker with, "Can you hear me?" or "I'll try again, wait!" Ironically, the speaker and roommates are usually in the room, laughing their respective heads off, when the machine answers...
...That's all bogus because Harvetta knows that I didn't do anything wrong," Osborne said. "I think that may even be a smokescreen to direct attention away from the issue which is, 'Did Harvetta herself drive after she was told by a member of the University not to do so?' That has nothing to do with...
First you have to get the plutonium or the uranium. Either material will do the job. But since much of the nuclear stuff offered for sale is bogus, a smart buyer would need access to a no-questions-asked research lab, perhaps in a place like Iran, to test the material. An amateur would use about 18 lbs. of 94% plutonium-239 or 55 lbs. of uranium to make a Hiroshima-strength bomb. Then you have to detonate it. The basic principles of bomb technology are available to anyone who knows where to look up the information, but actually constructing...
...officials also nabbed a suspect while he was casing a neighborhood in a car filled with crowbars and gloves -- and using a stolen number to talk on the phone. Though the man avoided being charged with burglary, he faces four years in prison for making $8,000 worth of bogus calls...
...only mildly amusing and intellectually stimulating part of the storyline is the close-minded reactions Fred and Ted (no it is not an "excellent" or even "bogus" adventure) have to the anti-American sentiment in Barcelona. During his first tour of the city, Fred comes upon a wall scrawled with anti-American, anti-NATO slogans. Equipped with his felt-tipped pen, Fred changes the Spanish word for pigs ("cerdos") to that for deers ("ciervos"). It ends up reading "Yankee Deers Go Home." The problem here is that you don't know if you are supposed to laugh or scoff...