# Let's screw with the NSA **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378 "2006-05-19T05:19:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/1 "2006-05-19T05:19:42Z")
According to the news the National Security Agency has been spying on domestic phone calls, using computers to listen for key words like; Al Qaeda, bomb, hijack, assassinate, etc. This annoys me. I’ve decided to start including some comments about a current gardening project I’m working on in all my phone conversations from now on. “I’m gonna go out and kill that fucking **bush**! It keeps overgrowing the walkway.” If we all do it it will totally tie up their systems. You’re invited to join in. And spread the word! ---
**Author:** ![roshia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@roshia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roshia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/2 "2006-05-19T05:30:43Z")
The President is da bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/3 "2006-05-19T05:44:26Z")
Probably [not the best idea](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=371477&highlight=bomb). ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/4 "2006-05-19T05:50:26Z")
Guess I shoulda run a search or sumpin’. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/5 "2006-05-19T06:09:33Z")
Feels like _deja vu_. Must be a glitch in the matrix… ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/6 "2006-05-19T06:22:52Z")
[Tain’t funny, McGee.](http://www.radiohof.org/comedy/fibbermolly.html) Having worked for years with intelligence and security people I can state positively that they have absolutely no sense of humor about their jobs, and rightly so. Bad idea from the git go. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/7 "2006-05-19T07:17:33Z")
The last time, the mods said not to press our luck. Remember, terrrorists hate us because we have freedom. So, let’s not be exercising any freedoms in public, so they won’t hate us. Which is more important to you, safety, or Free Speech? Tris ---
**Author:** ![beebee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@beebee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beebee)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/8 "2006-05-19T10:12:03Z")
i used to put “unemployed spy” as my job on tax forms. guess that will have to stop. once i got on a plane & saw an old friend. “hi, jack” i yelled. got to see the inside of the fbi building. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-screw-with-the-nsa/357378/9 "2006-05-19T11:45:24Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Garfield226** _ > > Probably [not the best idea](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=371477&highlight=bomb). Nope . . . not the best idea. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB