Hey Old Bald Guy,

From reading your last post in this thread where you isolate specific words and phrases from a paragraph, I have a question.

Have you every studied "SCAN" principles (perhaps in your previous career) as a way to determine deception in a written statement?

Mike

Sorry, no. Sounds too complicated for an old simple guy like me anyway...

Yep. And the things you need to shelter in place are mostly the same whether you are faced with a Zombie uprising or a bird flu epidemic.

Personally if I get a 2am phone call saying "They're onto you. Flee now," I'm going to grab my bag and get out of the house in a flash. When I'm a few miles away I'll maybe stop and think whether it might have been a wrong number.

When I did a lot of flying we carried "bingo" bags which was a bag that carried required "stuff" if you found yourself needing to land somewhere unplanned. I presume the term originated from bingo fuel, meaning that you needed to find a place to land NOW.

I always carried cash and a checkbook (this was before I discovered credit cards), a change of clothes (polo shirt, shorts and tennis shoes) and don't recall carrying much else. If I needed it I'd buy it. This wasn't an "I expect to land somewhere else" bag and didn't carry any survival items. Survival gear was part of normal flight gear and unnecessary in a bingo bag.

Thanks, OBG. You are a scholar and a gentleman, sir!

I just ask myself "what would Jack Bauer or Jason Bourne put in their BOB?" They are always on the lam and always get away.

One can learn from the very rich who were once "ON THE LAM".

When Qusay & Uday Hussein decided the time was here to grab their BOB (The US Marines were ringing the door bell), they grabbed their lightest BOB.

Qusay and Uday Hussein had roughly $100 million when they were found, Newsweek reports. American soldiers also found Uday's briefcase in the rubble near his dead body. It's contents included painkillers, numerous bottles of cologne, Viagra, unopened packages of men's underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie, and a single condom.

An interesting choice. I wonder what color was the tie?

I know your post was tongue in cheek, but the Hussein brothers are way down the list of folks I'd choose to take advice from. That list sounds like he was packing for a quick trip to Paris to do some bar hopping.

That was probably the first time they'd been on the run and as we can see from the result, they weren't very good at it. Usually those two had lots of staff around to "take care of things". They could have made much better choices -- maybe if they'd had a different dad. . .

I try to be a gentleman most of the time, but I am (sadly) far from a scholar. And according to my wife, not a fine judge of good whisky...