Hassan Firouzabadi, the former chief-of-staff of Iran’s armed forces and senior military advisor to the Supreme Leader, said yesterday that Western spies had used lizards such as chameleons to spy on his country’s nuclear program, because their skin “attracts atomic waves”. Actually, the skin of lizards does not attract atomic waves. Perhaps General Firousabadi was getting mixed up with the recent fascinating revelation that the skin of chameleons glows under ultraviolet light. The Biblical Museum of Natural History officially denies that any of our chameleons or other lizards have been involved in spying on Iran.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
An Official Denial
Hassan Firouzabadi, the former chief-of-staff of Iran’s armed forces and senior military advisor to the Supreme Leader, said yesterday that Western spies had used lizards such as chameleons to spy on his country’s nuclear program, because their skin “attracts atomic waves”. Actually, the skin of lizards does not attract atomic waves. Perhaps General Firousabadi was getting mixed up with the recent fascinating revelation that the skin of chameleons glows under ultraviolet light. The Biblical Museum of Natural History officially denies that any of our chameleons or other lizards have been involved in spying on Iran.
7 comments:
Comments for this blog are moderated. Please see this post about the comments policy for details. ANONYMOUS COMMENTS WILL NOT BE POSTED - please use either your real name or a pseudonym.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Talmud Torah Keneged Kulam!
The phrase Talmud Torah k’neged kulam , "the study of Torah is equal to everything," is well known from its daily recital in the m...
-
Back in 2005, Rav Aharon Feldman wrote that the ban on my books was "probably the public issue most damaging to the honor of Torah and ...
-
Last week I was with my wife's family on an absolutely spectacular vacation in Wyoming, with the Rustic Elegance kosher program. Her... -
Here is a letter that I sent to ArtScroll last week: Rabbosai, Sometimes, there are additions to a work which detract from it. It is dis...
I don't know what the point of denying it is. Even if you did it, you'd deny it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that's a very suspicious looking lizard there I bet he's been flying around on drones since he was an egg.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was just the glow from their neshama.
ReplyDeleteTypo:
ReplyDeleteskin “attracts atomic waves”. Actually,
Maybe something lost in the translation from Farsi. Anyway, if anyone could train lizards to spy it would be you :)
ReplyDeleteReally, why deny? Let them go crazy trying to interrogate chameleons!
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time this blog featured intellectual post after intellectual post.
ReplyDeleteNow it's just advertorials, cheap 'pot-shots' and sensationalism.
Can we assume rationalist judaism has reached the end of the book?