I enjoyed receiving an email just now from James R. Fitzgerald, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation. to let me know that the FBI internship programme has now been expanded to include linguistics graduates as potential interns. The message was sent to the Forensic Linguistics mailing list and forwarded on to a different list which I'm on. The first sentence of the email was 'Some of the List members are familiar with me'. I enjoyed both the ambiguity and the echoes of Blur's 'We've Got A File On You' which I'd just been listening to and which had been reminding me of Gilbert and Sullivan's song in the Mikado, 'I've Got A Little List', as well as that joke about ex-Stasi employees getting jobs as taxi-drivers after the Berlin Wall came down (the one about them being great taxi drivers because they 'know where you live')

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