[geeks] Hijacked

[Will Mc Donald]

From: "Reagen B. Ward" <ward at zilla.nu>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:54:13PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:29, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > My wife would like to see flourascopes (sp?) at airport terminals -
not sure
> > > that will happen....
> >
> > What's a flourascope?  Google doesn't have any useful information,
> > except that it's something that can be used to find "foreign bodies" in
> > people.  Is it akin to an X-ray?  Is it less harmful?  How's it work?
>
> Isn't it the nifty device that lets you see people's nude outline?
> Lotsa folks got mad at the idea of folks seeing nicely detailed outlines
> of their privates.  As a result, they're not very common and are used as
> an alternative to a strip search.
>
> I could be thinking of something else, though.
>
> Reagen


I suspect Google didn't turn anything up because it's "flouroscope" IIRC.

http://www.google.com/search?q=flouroscope