lipstick and landmines

The name of my indie band, should I ever have one. The antenna of a $500 British bomb-detecting device lifted as we passed our first checkpoint. One of a rumored 50,000, for the record.  "Are you wearing perfume or carrying makeup?" asked an Iraqi soldier. Apparently, a glitch in the device has it so the device detects day-to-day products and confuses them for bombs, arguably making the device useless.

         "Yes and yes."

         "Have a nice day."

         Well, that was effective.