A Fun Time

Sailor Steve · 07-31-07, 04:42 PM

I'm currently working at our local convention center for a temp agency, and the convention is a bunch of different groups hiring statisticians. One of the groups is our very own National Security Agency. I've had fun trading jokes with some of them, but the clincher is part of their display: a one-each really truly gen-u-ine ENIGMA machine! I got to touch it, play with it and talk about it. They were impressed when I recognized it as an early-war machine because of its three rotors.

Anyway, that's my show-and-tell for the day.

fredbass · 07-31-07, 04:46 PM

Make sure to tell us if the NSA hires you.

Chock · 07-31-07, 05:16 PM

Actually, they'll probably think you are a Nazi sleeper agent because of your ability to recognise the model. See if there is a white van with steamed up windows and lots of cigarette butts on the ground outside the driver's window, parked a little way up the street from you.:rotfl:

Chock

Reaves · 07-31-07, 06:25 PM

Always great to actually enjoy your work.

HunterICX · 08-01-07, 04:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chock

Actually, they'll probably think you are a Nazi sleeper agent because of your ability to recognise the model. See if there is a white van with steamed up windows and lots of cigarette butts on the ground outside the driver's window, parked a little way up the street from you.:rotfl:

Chock

and keep an eye out of those guys with the same newspaper every day :rotfl:

Takeda Shingen · 08-01-07, 05:27 AM

Black helicopters too. Glad to hear that you're still working, Steve.

Jimbuna · 08-01-07, 07:03 AM

You lucky bugger (the touching bit I mean)

How about a photo for the forum ? :hmm:

Chock · 08-01-07, 09:00 AM

I keep getting the image of the bit in the movie Taxi Driver, where Travis Bickle (DeNiro) is talking to that secret service guy:rotfl:

Chock

bigboywooly · 08-01-07, 09:22 AM

The NSA must be underfunded
Still using the Enigma

:rotfl:
3 rotor model at that

Mush Martin · 08-01-07, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chock

Actually, they'll probably think you are a Nazi sleeper agent because of your ability to recognise the model. See if there is a white van with steamed up windows and lots of cigarette butts on the ground outside the driver's window, parked a little way up the street from you.:rotfl:

Chock

No not because he could recognize it because of his age.
:rotfl:

Oberon · 08-01-07, 12:57 PM

I could just imagine the NSA, coming after Steve, bundling him into the back of a black van, putting a sack over his head, etc.
Eventually, the sack is removed and he's in a room with a light shining down on a table and chair, on the table is an Enigma machine.
Then he's handed two pieces of paper.

Paper one:

Kreigsmarine M3 - UKW = C
Walzenlage = III, VI, VIII
Ringstellung = 9, 18, 14
Steckerverbindungen = AW IY UF DS ZP GV ON TC KQ XJ RH LB ME
Grundstellung = AFC
Kenngruppe = AAI, XSW, FJM, PWJ

And another piece of paper with:

LLGFX NCOKU WOOGH RTFFP ULCPK QTMKN EVLDB LUWHX DHCIM CBXIK EFAHV PRIHE RMRSY EOYMN PAEAH VNNUZ PDPKQ LKSSY LUQWY VHKTJ VDPWE HJSFM MJHJE VGRBU IIQSP I

Sailor Steve · 08-01-07, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You lucky bugger (the touching bit I mean)

How about a photo for the forum ? :hmm:

Unfortunately I don't have a camera. Also, the show ended today. Sorry.

As for black helicopters and vans, I already joked with them about having to be fingerprinted and show my ID before they'd let me empty their stupid little wastebasket. They actually thought it was funny.

07-31-07, 04:42 PM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	A Fun Time I'm currently working at our local convention center for a temp agency, and the convention is a bunch of different groups hiring statisticians. One of the groups is our very own National Security Agency. I've had fun trading jokes with some of them, but the clincher is part of their display: a one-each really truly gen-u-ine ENIGMA machine! I got to touch it, play with it and talk about it. They were impressed when I recognized it as an early-war machine because of its three rotors. Anyway, that's my show-and-tell for the day. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Actually, they'll probably think you are a Nazi sleeper agent because of your ability to recognise the model. See if there is a white van with steamed up windows and lots of cigarette butts on the ground outside the driver's window, parked a little way up the street from you.:rotfl: Chock __________________

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Reaves The Old Man Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 1,509 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Always great to actually enjoy your work. __________________

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You lucky bugger (the touching bit I mean) How about a photo for the forum ? :hmm: __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Black helicopters too. Glad to hear that you're still working, Steve.

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Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I keep getting the image of the bit in the movie Taxi Driver, where Travis Bickle (DeNiro) is talking to that secret service guy:rotfl: Chock __________________

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bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	The NSA must be underfunded Still using the Enigma :rotfl: 3 rotor model at that __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	I could just imagine the NSA, coming after Steve, bundling him into the back of a black van, putting a sack over his head, etc. Eventually, the sack is removed and he's in a room with a light shining down on a table and chair, on the table is an Enigma machine. Then he's handed two pieces of paper. Paper one: Kreigsmarine M3 - UKW = C Walzenlage = III, VI, VIII Ringstellung = 9, 18, 14 Steckerverbindungen = AW IY UF DS ZP GV ON TC KQ XJ RH LB ME Grundstellung = AFC Kenngruppe = AAI, XSW, FJM, PWJ And another piece of paper with: LLGFX NCOKU WOOGH RTFFP ULCPK QTMKN EVLDB LUWHX DHCIM CBXIK EFAHV PRIHE RMRSY EOYMN PAEAH VNNUZ PDPKQ LKSSY LUQWY VHKTJ VDPWE HJSFM MJHJE VGRBU IIQSP I