This is the BEST HEADLINE EVER

[eruthros]

"Monkey eludes dragnet at train station"

Me: "what? monkey? train station? where? who? huh?" Turns out the answer is wild monkey, Tokyo train station, thirty policemen. Right.

ETA: Okay, wait, maybe this is the best headline ever: "Britain's spy service seeking to hire gays." I particularly like the use of gay as a noun.

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[sineala.livejournal.com]

*blinks at spy article*

1. Dude, why do spies make no money?

2. As someone who has spent the last two days obsessively reading Professionals fanfic, I laughed and laughed. In a good way.

[eruthros]

1. I know! Like, they could betray your country to evil supervillains, and you think "hmm, maybe we shouldn't pay them, they will never go work for people who want to blow up the planet with evil space ray guns just for the money."

2. You think maybe there already are gays working for Britain's spy service is what you're saying?

[sineala.livejournal.com]

I know. I actually went and looked at their posted pay scales. Their tech people get paid more than the intelligence officers. The security people who review the CCTV footage get paid more, depending on the length of their shift. I'd have thought you'd at least want to make your spies an offer that the evildoers wouldn't want to match. Maybe it's some sort of thing where you don't want to recruit the people who would do it because of the money, because they might want to, er, pursue other offers.

2. No! Crazy talk! Though I did particularly like the Time coverage (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1833896,00.html?imw=Y) of this article that frames the news in terms of (a) James Bond and (b) Polari. (My other favorite headline that showed up was "For Queens and Country.")

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

I like them both. That 'gays' headline immediately makes one think, 'But what are they hiring them FOR?' - or maybe I've just read too many sex-club-undercover Due South stories.

[eruthros]

There is NO SUCH THING as too many sex-club-undercover Due South stories. There are, in fact, too few! And waaaaay too few gay-sex-planet-undercover SGA stories.

I mean, just imagine the undercover gay planet hijinks! The hilarious gay-planet clothes and Teyla doing the boys' hair to be appropriately gay-planety! (Except John's. "Yours is fine," Teyla says. "Hey!" says John, after a minute to think about this.) And she helps them pick out their clothes, too, of course, because she knows way more about interplanetary trade networks and customs. (Except Ronon's. "Yours are fine," Teyla says. "I know," says Ronon, smugly. "Wait, hey!" says John, after a minute to think about this.)

Also, there would be gay-planet cake, and Rodney would be in heaven. It would be great.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

This fills me with so much joy. Especially Ronon's clothes being fine for the gay planet. And then Rodney and John would be forced to hide from the police in a flophouse! And simulate sex! Except they would both be inappropriately excited and get way too into it! OMG, I kind of want to write this right now.

[tnt6669.livejournal.com]

OOOOOH! This makes me want to move to England and call myself Jane Bond...I want a turn on Pussy Galore!!!