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Weekly Intelligence Briefing

 

 

(Note: Cleared readers only, please.)

Rather than bore you with the details, let me get straight to the main point and bore you with that. – Intelligence briefing

SpookSpeak. Tactronym n. An acronym in which letters have been omitted, and/or extra letters added, so as to avoid an inappropriate acronym that would otherwise result. (Example: Tactical INtelligence Technologies Staff – TINTS)

● I don’t need an emotional support animal, I need an emotional support animal!

● Boomer band name: Strong Stream.

● When you label me, you negate me (although if it’s a warning label, it does make me feel kind of badass.)

Executive Intelligence Summary

The alien that explodes from our chest cavity is us.

                       

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I wasn’t burned. More like flambéed. – Ops report

It was quiet, thought the grizzled old CIA case officer. Too quiet.

Feigning an untied shoelace, he crouched down in the cafeteria line at the assisted living facility, and in a single lightning fast motion, readjusted the volume on his hearing aid.

● … Well, OK, as long as it’s not ‘Mr. Tambourine Man.’ – Mr. Tambourine Man

● The man who wrote: “Our whole life is a matter of semantics” was named Frankfurter.

Just sayin’.

Oh what a tangled web's resultant, when first we hire a weaving consultant.

Executive Intelligence Summary

When I quit being a people pleaser, I just hope you’re all happy.

    

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SpookSpeak. Blind spot n. In countersurveillance, a belief in the existence of blind spots.

“We’re a lot alike, you and I,” the enemy agent sneered, placing the barrel of his Glock against my temple, pulling the trigger, and instantly killing himself (... because, being a lot like me, he was terrible with firearms). – Ops report

● I’m nonbinary because I hate alternatives.

● Reading about the five stages of grief before you actually grieve takes all the excitement out of it.

● Domestic abuse?! The house hit me first!

Executive Intelligence Summary

I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul.

No doubt about it, I need to read up on gifting.

                                  

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