I fly about once every other week and so do a couple of people who work with me. They seem obsessed with the TerrorAlertLevel and always know what color it is, what that means, whether it is likely to chage, and what one is suppsed to do about it. It seems I am immune, that or it is just too juvenile for me to take seriously.

"Today we have non-specific but credible evidence that frogmen or explosives laden remote control trucks will attempt to disrupt power facilities and possibly whipped cream distribution chains. Don't disregard last week's alert on uranium laced toilet paper, as, like today's, it did not include a date for the attack."