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A performer with the renowned Alvin Ailey dance troupe was ordered to perform steps for Israeli airport security officers to convince them of his identity, a spokesman for the company said Tuesday.
(Thanks to Siouxie)
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Big deal. They stopped one of my profesors and made her recite Planck's Constant to prove she was a physicist.
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | September 09, 2008 at 09:48 AM
Big deal. They stopped one of my professors and made her recite Planck's Constant to prove she was a physicist.
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | September 09, 2008 at 09:48 AM
Three in a row?
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | September 09, 2008 at 09:49 AM
Did they shoot at his feet? I always loved when they did that in Westerns.
Posted by: Dr. Bob | September 09, 2008 at 09:50 AM
Next they'll be stopping the Blog and asking him to "say something funny". Sheesh.
Posted by: Siouxie | September 09, 2008 at 09:51 AM
I'm sorry, but that was a faux pas.
Posted by: Steve Haller | September 09, 2008 at 09:54 AM
or... a witch!!
Posted by: CJrun | September 09, 2008 at 09:58 AM
I got pulled out of line for additional questioning when we were leaving Israel. I still haven't figured out the question about the candlesticks.
Posted by: fivver | September 09, 2008 at 10:10 AM
I hope I'm never on a flight with Barry Manilow.
Posted by: ubetcha | September 09, 2008 at 10:37 AM
OR a gynecologist. And spell that word before breakfast.
Posted by: Margaritaville | September 09, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Maybe they thought he was Michael Jackson and just wanted to see him Moon-Walk.
Posted by: oldmanatee | September 09, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Count me in as another traveler who was pulled aside for extra questioning when leaving Israel. At some ungodly hour like 6am. Almost missed my plane, too. And this was 12 years ago ...
Posted by: funniegrrl | September 09, 2008 at 10:54 AM
GOOD THING HE WASN'T A PROCTOLOGIST
Or a female didgeridoo-ist.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | September 09, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Golly, I think she'd be a didgeridoodler...!
Posted by: Ned Flanders | September 09, 2008 at 12:55 PM
On the plus side, the last time an Israeli airline or airport had a terrorist incident was...never? It works.
Posted by: Allen at Division | September 09, 2008 at 01:48 PM
So Israeli security guards consider themselves dance literate?
"Sgt. Mehir isn't convinced. He thinks that last sequence was more Martha Graham than Alvin Ailey, and it just didn't flow."
Posted by: padraig | September 09, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Although Allen has a point. From what I've heard about Israeli soldiers, if one of them tells me to dance, I'm moonwalkin' all the way to Jerusalem, baby.
Posted by: padraig | September 09, 2008 at 02:22 PM