Cultural references that don't quite work
Someone on CNN asked whether ricin was dangerous. The person he was talking to said that, yes, it was dangerous, but only in specific ways. And that unless you were in "a James Bond scenario" in which someone was to put ricin on a sharpened umbrella and stab you with it, you didn't need to worry about contact.
Well, first of all: that happened. Except it was the KGB who did it. (They were so creative ... still are, I guess.)
But second: "a James Bond scenario"? That means insanely complicated fiction. It doesn't mean fact.
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At 7:35 PM, March 01, 2008
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Well, wasn't the guy's point (whether or not you agree with it) that the scenario in which it could happen is insanely complicated fiction, and, therefore, not something anyone should worry about? It seems that for the point he was making, "a James Bond scenario" is exactly what works.
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