{"id":825,"date":"2007-05-15T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/perimeter\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:48:36","slug":"perimeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Perimeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=4605#more-4605\">Jeff Kouba notes something<\/a> my daughter and I both caught during <em>24 <\/em>last night, when Ricky &#8220;Doyle&#8221; &#8220;Silver Pistols&#8221; Schroeder ordered CTU to &#8220;set up a perimeter!&#8221; to stop the escaping Cheng:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*pause so audience can dissolve in fits of laughter* Do we have even one example of a perimeter ever working on this show?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, in six years, I think the only thing a perimeter has ever done on <em>24<\/em> is earn overtime pay for LAPD\/CHP\/CTU redshirt extras.<\/p>\n<p>But it occurs to me &#8211; there&#8217;s a bit of pop culture fame to be seized here. &#8220;Set up a perimeter&#8221; is the ultimate sarcastic negator!<\/p>\n<p>Think about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Patty Wetterling set a perimeter on the Sixth District Congressional seat&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Al Franken has set a perimeter around Coleman&#8217;s Senate seat!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Minnesota Monitor <\/em>has set a perimeter around journalistic credibility!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ryan Rhodes&#8217;s lower bowel is a perimeter against noxious emissions&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It works.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Kouba notes something my daughter and I both caught during 24 last night, when Ricky &#8220;Doyle&#8221; &#8220;Silver Pistols&#8221; Schroeder ordered CTU to &#8220;set up a perimeter!&#8221; to stop the escaping Cheng: *pause so audience can dissolve in fits of laughter* Do we have even one example of a perimeter ever working on this show? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}