Taking off on a report that NSA operatives have on some occasions used their surveillance power to check up on their personal love interests (this kind of intelligence-gathering is informally called “LOVEINT”), a lot of folks have been having fun with #nsapickuplines.
Some diverting examples, courtesy of NPR:
I bet you’re tired of guys who only pretend to listen. #NSAPickupLines
I’d tap that. #NSAPickUpLines
Just relax while we unzip your files. #NSAPickUpLines
#NSAPickupLines Are you tired? Because you’ve been running through my chat log reviews all day.
I know exactly where you have been all my life #NSAPickUpLines
#NSAPickUpLines Girl, you must have fallen from heaven because there is no tracking data to indicate how you arrived at this location.
Andrew Kaczynski @BuzzFeed
Girl can I get yo number. Oh, wait I already have it. #NSAPickUpLines
Chris Colemon @ChrisColemon
“I’m the guy your mother warned you about in an email this morning.” #NSAPickUpLines
Erik Haltson @Erik_Haltson
Hey girl, did you fall from heaven or were you born at 10:23pm at St Sebastian’s hospital on May 21 1992 to Andrew and Lois #NSAPickUpLines
Also good ones…
The Wall Street Journal reports that the NSA can spy on 75% of internet traffic. The other 25%…
…is the NSA doing the spying.