# Everybody relax. We are now at Code Yellow. Whew! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011 "2003-02-27T23:44:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/1 "2003-02-27T23:44:01Z")
I’ve put the plastic and duct tape away in an easily accessible place, instead of sitting at the ready on my windowsill. I’ve stopped wearing my flak jacket on the 4 train. I only report every _other_ “suspicious” individual to Homeland Headquaters. The cynic in me thinks the alert was lowered so that it can be raised again when unemployment rates come out. Or maybe they’re saving it up for the next stinking snow storm which is supposedly on its way here. Why can’t we nuke the snow? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/2 "2003-02-27T23:47:43Z")
But I _just_ finished mummifying myself in plastic and duct tape! Now I gotta unwrap it all? Fuck that, I’ll just sit tight until the next orange alert. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/3 "2003-02-27T23:48:18Z")
You know what this means, right? _Tomorrow they attack._ ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/4 "2003-02-28T00:33:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*You know what this means, right? > > _Tomorrow they attack._ \*\* :eek: Quit that, goddamit. If you make me crap my pants, I’m whapping you upside the head with my bag of duct tape. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/5 "2003-02-28T02:41:32Z")
In New York City, we’re still on Orange Alert and have been since they started the whole system. Ha ha! \ Waitaminnit…that’s not a good thing… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/6 "2003-02-28T03:44:26Z")
Hey, _I’m_ in New York City! GET THE TAPE!!! GET THE TAPE!!! ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/7 "2003-02-28T04:24:20Z")
Blast, they lower the alert just as I was getting up the energy to run around yelling “THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING” PLUS I LIKE ORANGE BETTER THAN YELLOW **oops sorry didn’t mean to continue still yelling** but really don’t look good in either. Why can’t they have a purple day. I look great in that color. deb–the alert fashion police–2world ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/8 "2003-02-28T04:39:33Z")
Nooooo! I only just finally found orange duct tape so I’d be properly colour coordinated, and now they change the alert level??? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/9 "2003-02-28T04:54:17Z")
Nuts. [Hawaii](http://www.scd.state.hi.us) has been blue throughout the whole thing and I had just finished preparing for us being the last state in the union. Oh well, I’ll call that Plan **B**. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/10 "2003-02-28T05:05:00Z")
That means it’s ok to go pee now, right? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/11 "2003-02-28T05:11:11Z")
Hey, **CelticCowboy** … BOO! ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/12 "2003-02-28T09:08:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > \*\* > BOO! \*\* [sub]I hate you.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/13 "2003-02-28T09:11:35Z")
Well, I hope someone somewhere picks up news on the radar that an attack _might_ happen sometime, somewhere, very soon. Yellow clashes with these shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/14 "2003-02-28T11:56:13Z")
[Just be sure to know what all those new signs mean.](http://www.idlewords.com/biological.html) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/15 "2003-02-28T13:03:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CelticCowboy \* > \*\*:eek: > > Quit that, goddamit. If you make me crap my pants, I’m whapping you upside the head with my bag of duct tape. \*\* No crapping until we go to Code Brown! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/16 "2003-02-28T14:08:01Z")
Biggirl, we’re in NY. We’re still Orange. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/17 "2003-02-28T14:23:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*That means it’s ok to go pee now, right? \*\* Must be, [this guy](http://www.theonion.com/onion3907/orange_alert_sirens.html) is doing it during an orange alert (scroll down a little ways in link). ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/18 "2003-02-28T17:30:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > \*\*Why can’t they have a purple day. I look great in that color. > > deb–the alert fashion police–2world \*\* Or perhaps a fushia for those of us in the midwest who need a bit of color in Feb.? I tell you, these men have **no** idea. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-relax-we-are-now-at-code-yellow-whew/158011/19 "2003-02-28T17:55:26Z")
Gee, the “alert level” gets dropped right after the announcement that the government’s spending plan for the year doesn’t include enough money to protect against terrorist attacks on American soil. How convenient.