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While doing shopping today, I caught a bit of the NPR <\/a>game show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” One of the questions poked a bit of fun at various administration officials intoning, “Time is running out.”<\/p>\n

In the transition at that point to the next part of the show, they played a bit from Louis Armstrong singing, “We Have All the Time in the World.” Ha, ha, ha.<\/p>\n

Of course, that song is from the ’69 Bond flick, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service<\/i><\/a>. And, of course, it’s particularly ironic, since it’s the musical theme behind the love affair and marriage between Bond (George Lazenby) to crime princess Tracy Draco (Diana Rigg) — which is abruptly cut short when Tracy’s killed in a closing-scene drive-by shooting.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, time really does <\/i>run out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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