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2004-06-18 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-06-18 12:21:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Actually, I'm against the imposition of martial law -- BAD precedent. Besides, don't the US and New Iraq just have to "up-arm", not do this ...

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-06-18 1:01:25 AM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-06-18 1:01:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Potato bazooka plans.Approved for martial law.
http://users.frii.com/bsimon/hspray.htm

Posted by rich woods 2004-06-18 1:53:08 AM|| 2004-06-18 1:53:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 OOPS

Posted by rich woods 2004-06-18 1:54:52 AM|| 2004-06-18 1:54:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow! Rich, that looks like a hoot & a half! I dunno what the "oops" is for - the link worked fine. Heh, this gives me 4th July ideas about taping some Black Cat firecrackers together and making a longer fuse and... well, you get the idea. I can just see it: clan warfare in the picnic area, tables turned over for shielding, etc. lol!

Posted by .com 2004-06-18 2:02:04 AM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/whichiscolder.jpg] 2004-06-18 2:02:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 When we get bored bass fishing we pair off boats,and have a war.Be sure to use a bar b que igniter(push button spark type).Put in top of chamber,and use your thumb.Mist hairspray from 6 inches and screw cap on.Then shoot the turkey.There is recoil.Sounds like a knee mortar.
Be careful.These things really reach out there !!
(Thought I goofed the link)

Posted by rich woods 2004-06-18 2:13:49 AM|| 2004-06-18 2:13:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 No joke - friend of mine had his mounted on a tripod on the back deck. We'd launch lemons at the sheep doin' time in the vineyard while BBQ'n. And of course, there was the time I watched him catch his arm on fire while in the line of duty. Ahhhh, good times.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-18 2:31:17 AM|| 2004-06-18 2:31:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Being an arty crew chief is a risky assignment, but somebody's gotta do it, heh. Line of duty, you say? Didja give 'im one of these? I understand you don't even need to leave your post...

Posted by .com 2004-06-18 2:35:03 AM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/NYT_Lies.jpg] 2004-06-18 2:35:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know if anyone here can still get their hands on some calcium carbide, but there's a neat trick you can do with a similar assembly and a juice jar (I can't remember which size fits). Good for at least a 100 yards. Some vaseline or KY required.

Posted by therien 2004-06-18 2:52:18 AM|| 2004-06-18 2:52:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Dammit! Courtesy demands a red wine alert for nastiness such as that. Now look at this mess....that was awful! Risky indeed, I pretty much just laughed and poured myself another one. I'll give him his due though, he fired over an open sight - never used a spotting round.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-18 3:01:02 AM|| 2004-06-18 3:01:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I just keep seeing this HUGE banner that sez "Mission Accomplished"

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2004-06-18 3:06:24 AM|| 2004-06-18 3:06:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 A certain odor of troll spore.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-18 3:12:14 AM|| 2004-06-18 3:12:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Ram in a cardboard container from McDonalds from an order of large fries. Leave the fries in the container. The cardboard serves as a sabot and voila - a shotgun!

Civil War canister. BTW Rex Mundi, I think it is spoor, but if it is about fungi it is spore.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-18 3:58:04 AM|| 2004-06-18 3:58:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary general, said that Iraq was still too dangerous for the UN to return, telling reporters in New York he was "extremely worried" about the security situation on the ground.

He is a useless pussy in charge of a pack of thieves.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-06-18 9:15:57 AM|| 2004-06-18 9:15:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 I just keep seeing this HUGE banner that sez "Mission Accomplished"

What's the matter, you aren't aware that Saddam Hussein is no longer in charge in Iraq?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-18 10:03:28 AM|| 2004-06-18 10:03:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 AP: you are indeed correct. Couldn't see what I was typing following my vino rosso spit-take ha ha!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-18 10:35:35 AM|| 2004-06-18 10:35:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 BTW Rex Mundi, as kids we had loads of fun with calcium carbide (Shawnigan Carbide in a can). Aside from fun with miner's lamps, we declared jihad on gophers and used carbide and water to generate gas at the hole entrances. Then we lit off the acetylene gas and did our early sixties version of the thermobaric bomb. Industrious little sappers we were. ***sigh*** those were the days.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-18 11:57:29 AM|| 2004-06-18 11:57:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Jeebus AP! Actually sounds like a hoot and effective too. All I could do was issue a fatwa and send out m' dog. I'm gonna write this one down.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-18 12:16:45 PM|| 2004-06-18 12:16:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I have fond memories of fleeing some good ol'boys after an incident involving a tennis ball cannon and the side of a pickup truck. Thank goodness for darkness, thick brush and a well-planned escape route... *g*

So far it sounds like Alaska Paul had the most pyromaniacal display. How many fingers you got? ;)

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-06-18 1:15:56 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-06-18 1:15:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 we made the tennis ball cannons as kids, and lit em off with lighter fluid...if the balls had a lotta fuzz left, then at night, you'd soak them too so you'd get a flaming ball shot...

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-18 2:20:13 PM|| 2004-06-18 2:20:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 wimps, i went to eddie teller summer camp back in 62 i still have my craft project.

Posted by HalfJustVisitnig 2004-06-18 3:22:32 PM|| 2004-06-18 3:22:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Spot on, JerseyMike! Preach it, brother!

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