Radio Gaga

Sometimes terrible jokes come out of meetings between friends when some sort of critical mass is achieved. Wyverns from the old nest tend to do this; one or two wyverns will make a bad joke, but several will generate a spontaneous barrage.

It all started with an old joke from years ago. Nuclear medicine, the practice of injecting small doses of radioactive isotopes into humans for diagnostic and interventional purposes, became known as 'unclear medicine' because of the fuzzy returns generated.

Then the Abyss came up with "all lines look unclear" over a chess game. And I replied, "Yes... we shall exercise our unclear options!" At which point he said, "Unclear options. Like those unreliable Pak or N Korean nukes. Haha!"

Which made me think... We call nuclear weapons 'nukes', so does that make unclear weapons 'uncles'? It all reminds me of that old 1960s TV comedy thriller series starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Ilya Kuryakin.