YES!!!! 1 1/2 years of practicing is definately enough.

As I said earlier I have been researching and practicing for quite a while. One of my biggest concerns of trying countermeasures was that not many people posted success stories in this site.  Well, for all those skeptics out there
I AM A SUCCESS STORY.  Countermeasures do work and the polygraphers who say they can detect them can kiss me *rear*.  I was polygraphed by a polygrapher who claimed 18 yrs. of experince.  I used countermeasures. I passed. The End.

Here is a quick story:

As I entered the dragon's den I could not help but feel afraid.  I was very aware that I had been in training for 1 1/2 years, and that I knew all the dragon's tricks and tactics. I knew I could beat him if I could just compose myself. I looked down at my chest and could literally see my heart beating. I began to worry and get those butterflies in my stomach, but then I heard a voice in my head, I think It may have been Master Maschke's voice or maybe Master Scalabrini's, "Remember grasshopper this is nothing more than magic and you already know how his tricks work, therefore he cannot cast any spells on you".
As the dragon opened his mouth and fired the questions that would be asked on his magical machine, I felt complete relaxation and his words could not burn me, nor scare me.
At the end of the ordeal I just smiled when the dragon returned back to his lair and with a mortal wound to his magic record told me, "you passed".....

And so I must now conquer the rest of the exams. Thanks George, Gino,Dr. Richardson, BT, AMM, FRED F, Bill Roche, and everyone else who has contributed to this site.

Taz