New government agency

[Benjamin Barrett]

It was on a humor site, Google's cache for which is at

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:xN4bGOqSemwC:www.a1-4fun.com/+%
22Federal+Air+Transportation+Airport+Security+Service%22&hl=en&lr=la
ng_en|lang_ja

Benjamin Barrett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of James A. Landau
>
>
> The following message from our at-work e-mail system is
> probably a hoax, but
> some list members might be amused:
>
> Almost 150 years ago, President Lincoln found it
> necessary to hire a private
> investigator, Mr. Alan Pinkerton. He was actually the
> beginning of the
> Secret Service.
>
> Since that time federal police authority has grown to a
> large number of
> agencies - FBI, CIA, INS, IRS, DEA, BATF, SS, ATF, etc.
>
> Now Congress is considering a proposal for another
> agency:  the "Federal Air
> Transportation Airport Security Service."
>
> Can't you see it now, the new service in their black
> outfits with their
> initials in large white letters across their backs:
> FATASS