My Home-made Man from U.N.C.L.E. badge

When I was about eight years old I was a big fan of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. This got me into big trouble in school.

One day, being bored by school as I almost always was, I was working on my Man from U.N.C.L.E. badge when the teacher caught me.

It was a pretty neat badge, too. I cut it out of the backing of a package of Twinkles, colored it with a yellow Magic Marker, and drew all the appropriate symbols.

Then the teacher caught me.

She made me come to the front of the room with my badge, and asked me in a loud voice, in front of the whole class, what I was doing instead of paying attention.

Miss Wormwood, I hope you are sizzling in Hell right now.

She stapled a note to my badge, and made me take it home so my parents could sign it. My dad just looked disgusted, rolled his eyes, and signed it. I guess I returned it to school and gave it to Miss Cat's Eye Glasses.

I don't remember any of the episodes of The Man from U.N.C.LE. but I do remember how much I disliked school -- and a lot of the teachers.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who hears the theme song going through his head.

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[John Salisbury]

My best friend and I collected diecast metal cars from Corgi, and whenever he rolled out his Rolls-Royce he would hum the theme from "Burke's Law." He also had soundtrack albums from the James Bond and Harry Palmer movies.
There was a Japanese-American girl in my school who assigned a number to any classmate who wanted to be a "spy"--she gave me "2068," for some reason, but you see I've remembered it, forty years on--

[John Salisbury]

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