<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/JsKkWz0.jpg)<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Al</strong></span></div></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 5pt;">​</span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">Mental note to self: when asking questions, prepare for unexpected answers.<br/><br/>"I'm afraid such situations are outside my area of competence.  I am not exactly an international man of mystery and last time I checked there were no self-destructing messaging in my inbox, offering me impossible missions, should I accept them.  I was thinking of the kind of help that does not require a double-O designation."<br/><br/>Taffy chimes in and the conversation moves even further toward the surreal.  By now I am pretty sure they are bullshitting me, especially since nothing like this was mentioned in the news, but this is a pub, and a birthday, so I play along.  "So now that I know your secret, are you planning to kill me or do you have other ways to keep me quiet?"<br/></span><br class="clear_left"/>