tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post7402842905651299392..comments2024-03-27T12:56:38.992-07:00Comments on The Skeptical Bureaucrat: Natasha Fatale of 99 Fake StreetTSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-28575621587890239102010-07-01T15:53:46.050-07:002010-07-01T15:53:46.050-07:00Sleepers!!! Thank you. You're the first person...Sleepers!!! Thank you. You're the first person I've heard mention that old movie, but it was exactly what I thought of when I read about these Russian illegals dickering with Moscow Center over their suburban mortgages and cars, etc. Those Reds never wanted to go home.TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-57393318077426021562010-07-01T12:12:33.811-07:002010-07-01T12:12:33.811-07:00Well, I don't know that those two top KAOS ope...Well, I don't know that those two top KAOS operating as a registered Delaware General Corporation for tax purposes.<br />Meantime, the skinny on today's required viewing, the excellent 1991 BBC mini-series comedy, Sleepers: "Amidst the thaw of Glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been 'lost.' A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counter-plots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection" -Internet Movie Data Base. A terrific show, shot somewhat in the styles of Smiley's People and Day of the Jackal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-18323086249249935632010-06-30T16:46:20.386-07:002010-06-30T16:46:20.386-07:00Ah, yes, Agent 99. She was the best thing about th...Ah, yes, Agent 99. She was the best thing about that old show. Her, and the Cone of Silence in the Chief's office.TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-55980968481451970592010-06-30T09:13:23.799-07:002010-06-30T09:13:23.799-07:00Let's not forget Agent 99 of CONTROL as an ins...Let's not forget Agent 99 of CONTROL as an inspiration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-12853830007565876442010-06-28T20:40:49.662-07:002010-06-28T20:40:49.662-07:00You know what? When I saw in the news that these ...You know what? When I saw in the news that these folks had been arrested, I totally thought to myself, "I wonder what TSB will say?"<br /><br />Lanyards, Dude. Although I'm still holding out for tshirts.A Daring Adventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10526170899156150772noreply@blogger.com