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Top-Secret Document

“Okay, we have to dispatch this top-secret document. How should we do it?”

“Well, we could fax it.”

“No no, someone might pick it up on the other end. What else we got?”

“Uh, how ‘bout over-land mail?”

“Could be destroyed in transit.”

“Armored vehicle and a motorcade?”

“Too much attention. Someone’ll get suspicious.”

“E-mail?”

“Someone could intercept it! You know how insecure the internet is!”

“Phone transcription?”

“You know as well as I do that the lines are tapped.”

“Well, we could send one of our agents with a suitcase handcuffed to him.”

“How many people do you see with suitcases nowadays?”

“Good point. Morse code?”

“Who uses Morse code anymore? Besides, someone could overhear.”

“How about we translate it into pig-Latin and send it by carrier pigeon?

”.... Dude, you’re a genius! No one would figure it out that way!”

Goes off to translate document.

“I was… being… sarcastic….”

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