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bif

(22,702 posts) Sun Apr 21, 2019, 11:48 AM Apr 2019

"I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." Really?

I hate when someone says that to me, and then expects me to laugh. Do they really think that's original? Okay, enough of my grousing.

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"I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." Really? (Original Post) bif Apr 2019 OP

I agree. The very first time I heard that line I was amused. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #1

It's right up there with someone bragging about his super-important military service, Aristus Apr 2019 #2

I don't know about other highly classified jobs, Cold War Spook Apr 2019 #5

It's all situational. I have used it when GemDigger Apr 2019 #3

Hearing that is much better than hearing.... KY_EnviroGuy Apr 2019 #4

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,857 posts)

1. I agree. The very first time I heard that line I was amused.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 11:54 AM

Apr 2019

It stopped being amusing decades ago.

Aristus

(66,369 posts)

2. It's right up there with someone bragging about his super-important military service,

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 11:59 AM

Apr 2019

and then saying: "I'm not allowed to talk about it."

Yeah, real Double-Oh type there...

Guys who did do things they can't talk about don't say they can't talk about them; they just don't bring it up at all.

Cold War Spook

(1,279 posts)

5. I don't know about other highly classified jobs,

Reply to Aristus (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 08:34 AM

Apr 2019

but my family figured out mine. The first hint was me learning Russian at the Defense Language Institute. The second hint was after language school my next army post was Fort Meade. The third hint was unclassified documents about classes I took there about radios with the header National Security Agency. What I can not understand is when I sent for my records 50 years afterward, I received a single document stating that my records were flagged on October 4, 1964, and were still flagged. Is there anyone out there that still does not know what I did in the army? Thankfully, my medical records were not flagged so that VA healthcare could get them.

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)

3. It's all situational. I have used it when

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:18 PM

Apr 2019

I was showing someone the gold I found prospecting and they asked me where I found it. It's a secret, if I tell you …..

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,491 posts)

4. Hearing that is much better than hearing....

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 10:36 PM

Apr 2019

"I just told you, so now I have to kill you"......

Seriously, that is an offensive and insulting phrase........

Our national dialog is degenerating more and more every day. Smart-ass is becoming the norm. It's becoming increasingly rare to hear the dialog of true old-fashioned ladies and gentlemen, and that is to our peril.

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