Better watch out, law enforcement isn't exactly known for their sense of humour.

Don't worry, I'll be conducting interviews on the StartupBus. http://www.wired.com/2013/03/a-long-fast-road-to-the-next-bi... (check photo credits)

Perhaps, but that kind of joke gets made all the time on the Internet without bringing down black helicopters.

I made a joke like that on Slashdot once and the black helicopters did show up. Well, the Secret Service, anyway.

You satirically quoted an imaginary job posting and Secret Service showed up? That sucks, I guess we need to close down Duffel Blog and The Onion then.

Or you know, he did a SLIGHT VARIATION of the "imaginary job posting", an "imaginary something else" but equally imaginary and tongue-in-cheek...

Yes, I'm sure that his "not actually the same as the joke we're talking about" joke was a mere slight variation. Maybe the Secret Service guy missed the (+5: Funny), I'm sure that happens to the best of us sometimes.

Yeah, because secret service and/or cops are known to have a great sense of humor and enough understanding of the Web (including Slashdot trivia).

Care to expand on that?

Story time?

You shouldn't tell people that what they say might bring the attention of law enforcement - that counts as secondary liability.

Yep, this is how you know you live in a -democracy- dictatorship.

Not that I'm personally worried about the FBI, but if I were? Living in fear that you'll get busted for making a lame joke isn't living. Whatever happened to all the grand talk of civil disobedience and standing up to the man? Instead we've got people on the "good side" going around saying "don't talk like that." The man doesn't even need to bother oppressing speech when you're doing it for them.