This is one of those weird things that somehow I'm aware of because my father was a type setter before becoming a photo engraver
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Replying to @HenryWHall @arthur_affect and
Here's a random ass fact: there was a point in time where photo engravers had to register with the secret service, if you were working as an engraver for a printer the Secret Service had your information
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oh yeah because it used to be their job to be the counterfeit money cops I encountered that in a Sue Grafton novel and was so confused
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Yeah the idea of an official government clandestine law enforcement service of any kind was still very new and controversial in the 19th century so after the USSS was created for the counterfeiting thing they kept getting "borrowed" for other stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Abraham Lincoln, himself, did not have a "secret service", his official protection came from the Pinkertons (who did a wide range of things for the government on a contractor basis along with their most famous function as union-busters)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
There were also various members of the US military who hung around Lincoln and lived with him for a time providing protection on a less-formal basis but there may have been other reasons for that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
There's that American Dad episode where Stan Smith writes a play about the life of US Army Capt. David Derickson, whom he sees a lot of himself in, as a devoted public servant who cared so much about protecting democracy he slept in the President's bed with him during the war
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It ends with him awkwardly agreeing to stay home from their trip to the theater because it's awkward with his wife nearby, followed by his howl of rage and grief "WHY WASN'T I THERE?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The show ends on a shot of Derickson lifting Lincoln in a bridal carry "Let me take you home... one last time" And then freeze frame as "I Will Always Love You" (theme from The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston) plays
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
He gets a standing ovation from the packed house who came to see it, all of whom are proudly "Log Cabin Republicans" like himself ("Those log cabin values are what this country was built on!")
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(The whole crisis of the episode is when his wife finally explains it to him after he still doesn't get it)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I'm just going to note that this is an Ellie thread and it absolutely happened without me being here. I scrolled up, and up, and found no answers as to how we got here ;)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
There's a thing called the "Freebird rule" in wrestling It's a thing where, if two wrestlers out of a stable of three or more wrestlers wins the Tag Team Championship, any two wrestlers from that stable may defend the title, in any combination Ellie threads operate by this rule
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