Bizarre photos from the East German spy archives

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Pssst, it’s ā€œStasiā€, short for Staatssicherheitsdienst …

These are fantastic. This is the best thing on the internet this morning. Hilarious, Tin foil and Madonna obsessions.

Isn’t that Mark F on the left? I’d know that hair anywhere!

;^)

The guy to the right resembles a young Steve Jobs.

Added to quip!

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ā€œDuring the Communist era, East Germany employed 300,000 spies to observe its own citizens; more per capita than any other totalitarian government in recent historyā€

Sad we now need to make the distinction between how many spies totalitarian governments use against their own system versus non-totalitarian ones…

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Clone? Aren’t there a number of ā€œMissing Yearsā€ in Mark’s official bio?

That’s no martial art. It’s the secret handshake.

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Hacky sack?

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Sounds fascinating. Shame it’s a cold day in hell before I’ll give Wired page-impressions again.

You’re both wrong. Clearly they are trying to dance like Kid N Play

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i think they’re boot dancing

Sir, I think you will see that that dance is the same as one performed by the rhyming duo Kid n’ Play in their moving picture entitled House Party

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beat me to it

New employee training at the Ministry of Silly Walks.

I love, love, love the ridiculous Cold War era ā€œdisguises.ā€

Photo evidence Steve Jobs created Mark Frauenfelder by binary fission in a secret German laboratory.

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I believe this is a version of an old freemason ā€œhandshakeā€/ ā€˜token’.

I know, I know- but if you’re up on the prominence of fraternal organizations in the 20th century it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.

BB guest blogger Mitch Horowitz wrote in depth on the subject, in his awesome book ā€œOccult Americaā€.

The picture comes from a 150 year old periodical, called ā€œDuncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitorā€. Still cited, kindly, by some masons today.

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