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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
Sunday, 03 January 2010 01:00
The U.S. Transportation Security Agency official blog published a twist on the old Clement Clark Moore poem the day before Christmas and the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound Northwest passenger airliner.

The TSA adaptation of T'was the Night Before Christmas began:

T'was the night before travel and all through the suitcase,
Not an item was stirring not even the toothpaste.
The stockings were packed in the bag with great care,
With hopes that they soon would be in the air....

Okay, it was terribly written. But the last line of the TSA version did have a far more sinister, if then-unintended, meaning:

Happy Holidays and we'll see you in 2010.

Ignore the part about “Happy Holidays,â€