Paging BGN - Beware they are watching us

I got pointed in the general direction of this little gem last night

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/nations-spies-w.html

Is it me or is some of the best comedy in the world today being
commissioned by the White House?

 

Excellent stuff.

 

This is superb. A bunch of spooks have come up with the perfect excuse to
spend all day playing WoW on the firm's PC. Hopefully they'll be outed
soon, and then every other player on Earth can gank the **** out of them.

 

"Don't go down the [data] mine, Dad,
Dreams very often come true..."
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Rumours that Blizzard are modifying the heroic level priest class to
include a Jihadic Mullah are as yet unconfirmed.

Although Paladin is an ayrabbic word I believe. Maybe the merkins know
something we don't?

 

Now *that* would be an extraordinary rendition.

<Dons tin-foil hat>

It'll be Usenet, next.

 

Do you really think they don't use a Carnivore type tool to monitor usenet?

 

It was a joke.

 

Oh so you DO know something. Tell the rest of us then!

 

<shrug> I'm sure that some loony might consider that data mining this
drivel a worthwhile exercise. Who knows or GAF?

 

BGN is Alliance, they are the "good guys" - he's got nothing to worry
about. Us subversive Horde players, however...

 

Do you mean Sir Tony?

 

No. Should I?

 

Your point being?

 

A joke?

 

Life imitates gaming then..

Phil.

 

not at all, it comes from palatine, one of the seven hills of rome.

 

Not exactly, but sort of. It's not from the hill but for what was on
the hill that gave the hill its name.

It. paladino, from L. palatinus "palace official;" noun use of
palatinus "of the palace" (see palace). The O.Fr. form of the word was
palaisin (which gave M.E. palasin, c.1400); the It. form prevailed
because, though the matter was French, the poets who wrote the
romances were mostly Italians.

 

read the last two words.

 

i apologise, that was facetious.

i mean of course that you are mistaken, the hill gave what was on it its
name and not vice versa.