Let's be honest - while Jack, Tony, Chloe, Edgar, and the rest of the guys at CTU sound like they know what they're doing, a lot of the technical phrases used inside CTU make absolutely no sense. So, if they can make stuff up, why can't we?!
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Many people, including myself dearly wish to be Jack Bauer from the TV show 24. Now, from my perspetive his job would be hard, but not for the many reasons you would think. The hardest, most difficult part of the job to deal with would not be sacrificing my wife. It wouldn't be interrogating my girlfriends. It wouldn't even be having to vampire bite dodgy looking Terrorists. No, it would be dealing with the IT department. Why? Because they really do make things up as they go along.
"Unthrottle the main pipe and cross-reference it with the grid!" "Reconfigure the firewalls to parity check the mainframe!" It all sounds good, but none of it makes sense! So, with that in mind, I've created a tool which will generate a random CTU phrase for you, so you can sound just like you're part of 24! (top)
Well, mainly for fun, I guess. (top)
There are currently 32 actions, 54 things, 8 stop-words and 7 clarifiers in the CTU Phrase Lexicon. This means there is a grand total of 96768 unique phrases which can be generated. Have you read them all yet? (top)
Credits must go to anyone who digs 24, as well as the many nerds I talk to about the show, including Mark, Marty, and of course, Joey, for she is the one who pointed out how often Chloe randomly says the word "pipe", and inspired me to make this thing. (top)
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