Welcome to Spyburbia, USA
June 29, 2010 at 2:59 pm in Culture / History, Slang by snark
“They couldn’t have been spies…Look what she did with the hydrangeas.
Spyburbia, baby — you heard it here first!
How do you fool so many in suburbia for so long? “She said they were from Canada.”
Yes Virginia, there really are spies everywhere, even in your neighborhood. Especially in your neighborhood, most likely. And if they say they’re from a mysterious blank spot on the globe called “Canada”, call the FBI immediately. [In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents]
Anyone remember that ’70s Charles Bronson B-movie classic, Telefon? As Wikipedia reminds us,
During the Cold War of the 1950s, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, spies so thoroughly brainwashed that even they didn’t know they were agents; they could only be activated by a special code phrase (a line from Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” followed by their real given names). Their mission was to sabotage crucial parts of the civil and military infrastructure as a precursor to a possible US/USSR active conflict or war.
I think ol’ Bob Frost was probably one of those secret agents as well. Just look at this video — something just doesn’t look quite right:
I’ve been on a rampage though the patent database trolling for unusual names and language. Here is another gem: 
