Our new bodyman was looking at the clock in our Senate office (the clock with the lights on it to denoted votes). And he was remarking that in the event of a nuclear war all the lights go off and there are 12 bells (the validity of this seems dubious to me but I digress).
Then one of our interns, and mind you, one of our BEST AND BRIGHTEST interns in fact asked him, “Has it ever happened before?!” Our confused bodyman spun around and answered very truthfully… “No there haven’t been any nuclear wars.”
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/howourlawsaremade.pdf
ReplyDeleteThe full listing is on p.35 - "12 rings at 2-second intervals with 6 lights on the left—Civil Defense Warning."
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ReplyDeleteMaybe he was asking about drills? Or false alarms?
ReplyDeleteOr some sort of non-nuclear civil defense event... maybe some sort of event involving aircraft, a pair of towers and a big pentagonal building? Nah, nothing like that has ever happened and would justify a civil defense warning.
Some of the stuff you post is truly interns being dumb. But some of it -- like this -- is just mean-spirited and uncharitable. Perhaps someone should start a blog about DC staffers being stuck-up and self-important?
It's not an unreasoanble question. There could've been false alarms.
ReplyDeleteMany things are only stupid if interpreted in the stupidest possible light.
As for there never having been a nuclear war I've got two words for you -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
ReplyDeleteThis blog was much more fun before all of the interns started coming on and defending the asinine behavior of their fellow interns. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteWorld War II was a nuclear war....
ReplyDeleteNo... WWII was a war that included 2 Nuclear Bombs. WWII also included 2 broken Jeeps that hit cows... but it was not a BROKEN JEEP WAR.
ReplyDeleteFor the war to be a Nuclear War the primary weapon would have to be Nukes.
In Defense: We have had many scares, close calls, and times when those lights may have started flashing.
In Embarassment: If the lights WERE FLASHING the staffers would be out of that office so fast you wou;d not get an answer.
As a three-time intern still under 22 and unpaid in DC, I can say that we all suck. Fellow interns, stop defending us. We, for the most part, are a drain on this city. We have fun, we sometimes learn a lot, we amuse and moderately assist our supervisors... and that's about it.
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