{"id":40313,"date":"2004-03-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/03\/10\/the-department-of-homeland-security-the-television-series\/"},"modified":"2004-03-10T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T07:00:00","slug":"the-department-of-homeland-security-the-television-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040310-00\/?p=40313","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Homeland Security, the television series?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not making this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Current Terror Alert Level<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Terror<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There’s a new television show based on The Department of Homeland Security<\/a>, titled D.H.S.<\/a><\/i>. I guess they realized that The O.C.<\/a><\/i> was a hip edgy name so they’d try it too.\nThe audio clips I heard on the radio seemed to make the DHS sound like a non-stop adrenaline-rush guns-drawn kind of department, when my personal experience tells me it’s a bunch of color-coordinated, shoe-inspecting, nail-clipper-confiscating X-ray machine operators.<\/p>\n

I think they should have more realistic episodes, consisting of security personnel doing typical everyday things like X-raying their own heads<\/a> or possibly getting upset when the Terror Alert Level<\/a> changes color and they have to ditch their entire ensemble for the day and change into yellow, say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not making this up. Current Terror Alert Level There’s a new television show based on The Department of Homeland Security, titled D.H.S.. I guess they realized that The O.C. was a hip edgy name so they’d try it too. The audio clips I heard on the radio seemed to make the DHS sound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-40313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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