[meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia

From: Göran Axelsson <axelsson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jan 16 19:52:48 2006
Message-ID: <43CC4118.1080209_at_acc.umu.se>

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.

/G?ran



Darren Garrison wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:15:15 +0100, "Axel Emmermann" <axel.emmermann_at_pandora.be> wrote:
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>>plug him into the polygraph (BTW: is that Greek for "multiwriter"? ;-))))
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>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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