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{{a|g|[[File:2319.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A full-scale [[CDA]] call-out, yesterday.]]}}First featured in that fabulous motion picture ''Monsters, Inc.'', 2319 is the callsign for the [[Child Detection Agency]], a mythical [[Sw-æp|swat team]] which gets called in when the chips are really down.  
{{a|g|[[File:2319.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A full-scale [[CDA]] call-out, yesterday.]]}}First featured in that fabulous motion picture ''Monsters, Inc.'', “[[2319]]” is the call-sign for the [[Child Detection Agency]], a mythical [[Sw-æp|swat team]] which gets called in when the chips are really down.  


They are the only people you need, or who can help, if there is a “[[twenty-three nineteen]]” alert — you know, like when a [[salesperson]] receives a communication longer than one paragraph, that he realises someone — unless he does something quickly, being ''him'' — will have to ''read''.<ref>Deep spoddy intel point: The original “[[2319]]” contamination was a white sock - W being the 23rd and S the 19th letters of the alphabet. That may come in handy on a quiz night some day, amirite?</ref>
They are the only people you need, or who can help, if there is a “[[twenty-three nineteen]]” alert — like, for example, when a [[salesperson]] receives a communication longer than a paragraph, that he someone — unless he does something quickly, being ''him'' — will have to ''read''.<ref>Deep spoddy intel point: The original “[[2319]]” contamination was a white sock - W being the 23rd and S the 19th letters of the alphabet. That may come in handy on a quiz night some day, amirite?</ref>


Likewise, the [[CDA]] is the one group in the firm who can help you with a question whose answer appears to require a modicum of legal analysis to answer, however central it may be to the day job of the person asking it.
Likewise, the [[CDA]] is the one group in the firm who can help you with a question whose answer appears to require a modicum of legal analysis to answer, however central that modicum may be to the day job of the person asking it.


For most of the bank, that’s you, [[legal eagles]].
For most of the bank, that’s you, [[legal eagles]].

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First featured in that fabulous motion picture Monsters, Inc., “2319” is the call-sign for the Child Detection Agency, a mythical swat team which gets called in when the chips are really down.

They are the only people you need, or who can help, if there is a “twenty-three nineteen” alert — like, for example, when a salesperson receives a communication longer than a paragraph, that he someone — unless he does something quickly, being him — will have to read.[1]

Likewise, the CDA is the one group in the firm who can help you with a question whose answer appears to require a modicum of legal analysis to answer, however central that modicum may be to the day job of the person asking it.

For most of the bank, that’s you, legal eagles.

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  1. ↑ Deep spoddy intel point: The original “2319” contamination was a white sock - W being the 23rd and S the 19th letters of the alphabet. That may come in handy on a quiz night some day, amirite?
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