That was a beauty!
I just have to print it and put it up next to the stress lab at work, we
have two polygraphs in that room.
Thanks for the laugh!
:-)
To get back to the space theme, I once saw a movie called "Ice Pirates",
it's a B-movie and a parody on Sci-Fi movies. It has a scene with a
plucked parrot (stressed avian) saying the line "He's lying, dont
believe him!".
That scene just makes so much more sense now.
/Göran
Darren Garrison wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:15:15 +0100, "Axel Emmermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
plug him into the polygraph (BTW: is that Greek for "multiwriter"? ;-))))
Little known fact-- before the modern electronic polygraph, police often used
specially-traied
parrots who were sensitive to human emotions during interregations, and when
those birds (which are
very good at sensing differences in vocal tones, hence their ability to learn
to talk) sensed a
change in the questioned person's tone, they were trained to make a mark on a
piece of paper with a
piece of charcoal that they held in their beaks. The proper term was "Avian Stress
Sensor" but
somewhere along the way, the slang term "polygraph" was coined-- "Polly" being
a common name for
parrots, and "graph" being short for graphite.
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