It’s only funny ‘cause it’s true.

I once read a science fiction story called Baxbr/Daxbr which Google reminds me was written by Evelyn E. Smith. In it, an ordinary man who does daily the crossword puzzle in the newspaper comes to realize that it is being used to send coded messages in advance of an alien invasion. This isn’t so unusual, and variants of this have actually been used by different belligerents in history. The allies let the french resistance know the normandy invasion was imminent by including in a BBC broadcast the phrase “the violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor,” upon which the Maquis blacked their faces and blew up every railroad track and telegraph pole they could. I’m telling you this so you will understand and act to stop the menace our unsuspecting Earth now faces: the Zogg!

posted by tbuckner on 02/19 | lost & found - wtf | | send entry