Stumbled upon the following funny item while reading up on the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on wikipedia.org:
"Following the 1945 defection of Soviet cipher clerk, Igor Gouzenko and his revelations of espionage, the RCMP Security Service implemented measures to screen out 'subversive' elements from the public sector. What began as a perceived need to create a bulwark against communism had, by the 1950s, been extended to homosexuality because homosexual acts were illegal, considered a sign of “character weakness,” and because the KGB could use it to blackmail civil servants into revealing state secrets.
"Scores of people were fired as part of this campaign, which included the development of a 'fruit machine.' This machine was based on the premise that changes in pupil dilation when viewing beefcake photos of nude men would scientifically determine whether or not a test subject was gay.
"After four years, the machine failed to produce results, and the program was discontinued."
I now ask the Canadian Government the following questions:
1. Really?
2. Really?
3. Four years?
4. How do you know it 'failed to produce results?' Did the machine say the man wasn't gay, but then he demanded to give you a blow job? Or did the machine keep saying you were gay and it was, therefore, 'wrong?'
5. Where can I get one of these fruit machines? I'd love to continue the research, for the sake of science.
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The One-Two Punch of questions 2 and 3 caused me to lunge forward laughing, smack my head on the clipped-in tray table on the seatback in front of me, and wake up the girl sleeping in the seat in front of me, on this Amtrak bound for Kalamazoo!
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