Airlines Playing 20 Questions

[comanchepilot]

For those of you who think this is dumb, this is how El-Al/Israel has done security screening for decades.

yeah, but Israel actually pays attention to the responses . . .

 

[comanchepilot]

Is it in the southeast?

Southeast of British Columbia anyway . . .

 

[bflynn]

Par for the course in Tel Aviv.

I believe what he is saying is that giving truthful answers to some of those questions could land one in jail in the US. Yes, I work for Apple. We were meeting with executives at IBM and we talked about acquiring their company. Under SEC law, this is privileged information and cannot be disclosed to anyone not cleared by your company to know it. You've just become an informant for insider trading, welcome to Danbury.

 

[Zeldman]

I believe what he is saying is that giving truthful answers to some of those questions could land one in jail in the US. Yes, I work for Apple. We were meeting with executives at IBM and we talked about acquiring their company. Under SEC law, this is privileged information and cannot be disclosed to anyone not cleared by your company to know it. You've just become an informant for insider trading, welcome to Danbury.

So if I tell my mom this bit of information, will we both go to jail today..??? Friday is the worst day to go to jail.....

And I just bought all of IBM stock I could afford...... do I owe you any commissions on profits..??

 

[Clark1961]

So if I tell my mom this bit of information, will we both go to jail today..??? Friday is the worst day to go to jail.....

And I just bought all of IBM stock I could afford...... do I owe you any commissions on profits..??

Naw. Ya jus' have to pay any profits as a fine to the SEC. Note that there is no victim identified here to receive the "ill gotten profit" fine.

 

[Zeldman]

Naw. Ya jus' have to pay any profits as a fine to the SEC. Note that there is no victim identified here to receive the "ill gotten profit" fine.

Whew.... thanks. I'll go unpack my weekend getaway bag now.....

I guess less worries since every profit I have showed recently has gone to pay medical bills...And my wifes implants.....






That's dental implants before anyone gets excited....

 

[Clark1961]

Whew.... thanks. I'll go unpack my weekend getaway bag now.....

I guess less worries since every profit I have showed recently has gone to pay medical bills...And my wifes implants.....

Pictures or it didn't happen.

That's dental implants before anyone gets excited....

Nevermind.

(I had to save Mark from posting this and getting in trouble again)

 

[bflynn]

So if I tell my mom this bit of information, will we both go to jail today..??? Friday is the worst day to go to jail.....

And I just bought all of IBM stock I could afford...... do I owe you any commissions on profits..??

That depends on whether or not your mother acted on the information. All three of us could be headed to the clink, me for telling you, you for acting on it and your mother if she did either. It's insider trading.

I get top bunk!

 

[mscard88]

Pictures or it didn't happen.


Nevermind.

(I had to save Mark from posting this and getting in trouble again)

don't ****ing worry about me, pictures! Implants, yeah baby!

 

[denverpilot]

TSA: Has anyone introduced any objects into your luggage without your knowledge?

ME: If they did it without my knowledge, how would I know?

TSA: That’s why we ask.

They don’t like that joke. Ask me how I know. LOL. Yes, I did.

 

[Zeldman]

They don’t like that joke. Ask me how I know. LOL. Yes, I did.

I tried that once, too. At least I knew the agent.

 

[Rushie]

When that happens I am usually pretty tight lipped.....

Where ya goin' today? Work.

Where ya work? Way north of here.

And so on.... Not trying to be unfriendly, at this point I just want to be left alone.

I take the opposite tack. I launch into overly friendly, long-winded blabberings that very quickly have their eyes glazing over and they never even get to the second question before waving me along.

 

[paflyer]

I take the opposite tack. I launch into overly friendly, long-winded blabberings that very quickly have their eyes glazing over and they never even get to the second question before waving me along.

I like. Then when they try to cut you off, keep the banter going, follow them around.

 

[denverpilot]

I like. Then when they try to cut you off, keep the banter going, follow them around.

“It’s been so long since anyone has shown any interest in my collection of barf bags from every airline I fly throughout the world... would you like to see?”